Leaser Big MAC power highlights this westbound empty coal hopper train around the Wheelhouse Curve coming through Milwaukee and bound for Roseport, MN.

Freshly painted UP C44-9W #9662 and CSX SD60I #8735 provide power to CP Train #801 as it passes the Red Wing Amtrak depot. Photo taken 4/18/15 near MP 370.69 on the CP River Sub.

CITX SD9043MAC #119, CP ES44AC #8889, and NS C40-9 #8771 provide power to CP Train Number 801 as it passes the Amtrak Depot in Red Wing on a mostly sunny and warm but windy mid March day. Photo ta... (more)

CITX 119 and INRD 9025 sit by SPUD while waiting to get into Roseport on the UP.

CITX 119 and INRD 9025 sit by SPUD while waiting to get into Roseport on the UP.

With empty coal hoppers in tow, this CP GEVO leads a pair of INRD Big Macs west near sunset in Nashotah

A handsome pair of SD50s are large and in charge of empty coke hoppers on their way west to Roseport, MN. The crew is observing tux and dress clad prom-goers who minutes earlier had been taking ph... (more)

A pair of SD50-2's lead a drag of empty coal hoppers up the grade out of Brookfield

The INRD's get the call to lead this CP empty coke train west through Watertown

Two thumbs up from this crew on the River sub.

The delicious INRD Big Macs thunder west as a 281 creeps up on their tail.

The classy Big MACs of the Indiana Railroad bring empty buckets through a cavern of trees on their way through Wisconsin. Ultimately they will be loaded with coke at Roseport, MN.

A pair of INRD units head under the signal bridge at West Hoffman with another coke empty for Roseport.

CP 801 heads north off the CSX and onto the IHB at Blue Island Junction. It was nice to see the old school SD40-2 in charge. Just around the corner, 801 would meet its counterpart, the 800 train.