A blue and yellow trio rumbles up river, as a barge slowly floats its way south.
After waiting for hotshot #199 to blast by on the mainline, train #283 gets back underway with an HLCX leaser leading the way. On a day where the temp was 96 and it felt like 106, I'm sure the cre... (more)
An Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern train makes time down the Mississippi River in the late afternoon at Weaver, Minnesota.
Rolling up to Weaver East, train #171 out of Kansas City slows for the siding to let a coal empty by. A pair of blue and yellows along with a lengthy 94 car train almost makes one forget that CP i... (more)
Soo 6059, 6053, and 4603 got em' rolling good as the rocket out of Weaver West, heading for Midland for some quality sitting time...
Behind a pair of GEs, double stacks from Vancouver, BC pull out of Weaver as they head east for Chicago.
A Bensenville to St. Paul freight flies through the small town of Weaver in the last rays of light. Afterwards, we ate at Slippery's in Wabasha and quaffed a few Oktoberfests to cap off a great 3... (more)
CSXT 410, Soo 6021, and CP 4612 storm out of an extremely overgrown Weaver West.
A nice change of pace. 99% of the time this train uses a pair or GE's, but today Soo 6037 has the honors of guiding the train up River.
The Empire Builder is right on schedule as it passes through a slow order just north of its next stop in Winona.
With an eastbound all tucked away in the siding at Weaver, Soo 6026, 6036, 6039, 6057, and 4431 motor west on 283.
While out after the SP 4449 this day, a DM&E St. Paul-Kansas City manifest was grabbed coming downstream towards home rails at LaCrescent.
Still looking great behind a clean warbonnet, the Empire Builder heads for its next stop in Winona.
After riding the run from Winona, and back we high tailed out of town it to find a shot of the SP 4449.
Looking surreal in the hazy, diffused summer light; a hotshot CP intermodal from Bensenville-Vancouver blows by the siding at Weaver.
