After meeting the eastbound Watertown local at Kerkhoven, this westbound unit train pulls through a tunnel of trees.
Empties meet loads at Kerkhoven on a sunny Halloween morning in central Minnesota.
Though this area of MN still needs the rain, the corn is head high next to the passing Grand Forks-BRC.
A unit tank train with east coast visitors heads west through Kerkhoven.
It's easy to see where the nickname worm train comes from as these grain empties head through Kerkhoven.
Six units head today's BRC train from Grand Forks. The four trailing SD40-2's are BNSF: 7002, 8073, 8063, and 8075.
Maintenance equipment moving west near Kerkhoven, Minnesota.
A brand new Evolution Series GE slows for the signal at East Kerkhoven as the parade of unit grain continues.
A special train of BNSF brass coasts west behind a clean warbonnet as the sun starts to sag in the sky. Order of the cars behind the power was: Columbia River - Bay View - Powder River - Colorad... (more)
This loaded unit coal train must have found some snow out west on it's way to unload at Xcel in the Twin Cities.
Coming out of the trees and heading west. There were just 10 TOFC cars on the rear, but that's enough to make it a Q train.
The morning H train greets the sunrise as it heads east for Willmar.
A rare two train shot for this area as the H-NTWLAU holds the siding with mechanical troubles while an empty grain train overtakes it.
The second H train (as seen earlier in Grand Forks) is quickly approaching Willmar and points east. High Priority Merchandise - Grand Forks, ND - Galesburg, IL.
