BNSF 789 arrives at the Alton Grain Terminal, LLC after a jaunt south and meets with a re-routed H-DILPAS in Buxton and the South Local at Redco.

Classic ex-BN power leads the daily H-GFDNTW south past the grain behemoth in Alton, which sits silent on this pleasant Saturday afternoon. More info at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Alton, North Dakota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 8073
Train ID: H-GFDNTW
Photo Date: April 12, 2008

Grain hoppers get loaded in Alton as a rare GP28P leads the daily H-GFDNTW south on a pleasant afternoon. Wonder why that lead unit doesn't have a snow plow up here in the winter time? More info... (more)

'Mash Illusion. While this looks like one, giant grain complex, it is not. The silos on the left are almost 1500 feet behind the center structure and the silos on the right.... (more)

BNSF 7600 delivers a cut of grain hoppers to the grain facility in Alton on an unseasonably warm day in the Red River Valley.

What an odd power duo for North Dakota: Santa Fe vets BNSF 125 (GP60M) and BNSF 8704 (GP60) lead the fourth run of the upgraded Grand Forks - Northtown manifest south past the grain silos in Alton... (more)

This ex-NS switcher is assigned to the 4,000,000 bushel grain terminal at Alton and is seen here being used exactly for its intended purpose - pushing cars during the loading of a shuttle train. T... (more)

Coal empties steam south past the ever-expanding silos at the Alton Grain Terminal. This facility has added the four left-most silos since this spring, significantly expanding the storage capabil... (more)

After two years, I was finally able to catch Alton's resident grain switcher in decent light! No question as to the previous owner of this unit, she still wears her NS black proudly!

FURX 7927 leads five other units south on a short Grand Forks - Northtown manifest. Looks like BNSF 3702's stay in The Forks was short lived...

A long Grand Forks - Northtown manifest rolls south past Alton's resident grain shuffler, DLSX 2307. This same combo of Oakways would be providing power on the day's M-DILGFD as well.

Trains aren't exactly small, but next to this grain elevator in Alton they look like Micro Machines. This lone Oakway negotiates a slow order south toward Fargo on a pleasant afternoon.

After meeting coal loads in Hillsboro, a nice duo of SD60s rolls south past the huge grain loading facility in Alton on its way toward Fargo.

A dual window SD60M exits the siding at Hillsboro and creeps past the shuttle loading facility at Alton. An old Great Northern rail line use to run southeast from this point towards Halstad, MN, b... (more)