Light power heads under the searchlight signal bridge at West University adjacent to Northtown Yard.
Still adorned in its predecessors paint, Northern Lines Railway GP10 has the day off from switching duties.
An empty twenty eight car tailing train descends the last few miles towards Silver Bay.
The RCPE afternoon westbound train departs Mankato with 30 empties dwarfed by the 135 foot Ardent Mills silos that recently had a mural painted on them.
15 minutes into their journey from Babbitt to Lake Superior, the first loaded train of the day passes thru the heart of the Superior National Forest.
NS's Savannah & Atlanta unit leads an empty unit oil train down Main 1 at Staples MN.
Delayed by ~4 hrs at Staples MN due to a traction motor fire on a freight train, the Empire Builder races towards St. Paul.
A fairly clean ES44C4 leads a trio of elephant style GE's on a Z train thru Elk River MN.
Amtrak #8, The Empire Builder, running 7 hours late kicks up some snow with one of the heritage units leading.
A NP heritage themed St. Croix Valley RR local passes thru the countryside south of Rush City.
Built in 1956, this GP9 was still hustling freight trains on the BNSF mainline 40 years later in 1996.
A pair of SD50F's handle a 50 car coal train past a spillway on Painted Woods Creek south of Washburn.
A corn syrup train awaits a new crew and a great public service bill board is in the background.
Resting between assignments are a TC&W GP20C and CF7.
A rather worn looking NREX unit with various heritage basks in the evening sun.
