This CP coal train glides through a severe blizzard. The snow is so heavy that it has broken branches and downed power lines.
Two factory-fresh BNSF motors and a surprisingly clean warbonnet SD75 are kicking up snow while on the point of a CP coal train.
A relatively new GEVO slows to a stop under a fiery sunset. This train was a short one, at 3200ft.
CP 497 passes the great old barn west along the Portal Subdivision west of Donnybrook. Now if only the CP unit was an SD40-2F 'red barn' to complete this picture.
Steam engine SP 4449 glides through on the west main, approaching Saint Croix tower. This train went 60mph virtually the entire way down the double-track BNSF mainline along the Mississippi River... (more)
There can't be more than a handful of these Pacman SD40-2s with class lights left!
A mixed bag of NPR geeps await their next assignment at the railroad's western end. Note CP SD40-2 with class lights.
NPR 2297 returns back to Lansford on the very remote Kramer line. Kramer is now the end of track, with the section between there and Bisbee abandoned and overgrown with weeds.
Unit sulfur train.
Four AC units pull 35 empties over a causeway toward Detroit Lakes, MN.
Whirling torrents of snow fly everywhere, as one manifest leapfrogs another. This is our first snowfall this year which has actually stayed on the ground.
A one-of-a-kind WC unit sits neglected while a 'victim' is assigned to switching duty. This is my 50th photo!
A Thief River Falls-bound wayfreight skirts along a small lake after meeting 9011 East at Vergas.
