A southbound freight train skirts along the frozen Mississippi River in the small town of Lynxville.
CN haulage train is northbound heading for next crew change at La Crosse, WI. This freight train is operating over the BNSF from Chicago to Superior as a haulage agreement CN has with BNSF.
Southbound Z-train bound for Chicago rolls along the Mississippi River south of La Crosse, WI, near Lynxville. This train today has strait ex-Santa Fe power on the ex-BN lines, and as the BNSF mer... (more)
A trio of big EMDs in various BNSF paint schemes brings an empty ore train back to northern Minnesota.
With merger day long since passed these two old soldiers of Santa Fe and Burlington Northern heritage still put up the miles in their old colors aside from a renumbering here or a reinitialling th... (more)
An eastbound manifest passes the Mississippi River Lynxville boat launch late on a perfect fall day.
An Eastbound BNSF Stack Train with a Rare SD70ACe Leader Makes Some Noise as it Approaches a Road Crossing South of Lynxville, WI
I photographed these same two engines with the BNSF 8133 leading westbound on the CP River Subdivision with the FRA Test Car 219 on September 30. Today the duo hauls a rock train eastbound on the... (more)
An empty auto rack train rolls along the Aurora Sub near Lynxville. This train came out of the yard at Dayton Bluffs, MN. Nice whore fost has formed on the bluffs around the Mississippi River this... (more)
Heading down river along the great river road.
A Northtown, MN, to Galesburg, IL, manifest train rolls south along the Mississippi River near Lock and Dam #9. Along for the ride today is 4 dead FURX SD40-2's behind the working power. This trai... (more)
About an hour away from sunset this train hustles a hot train south.
About an hour away from sunset this 2x1 train hustles a long train of Crude oil tanks south.
BNSF ES44AC, SD70ACe, and ES44AC cruise in front of a spectacular early spring sunset with another empty taconite train headed for Iron Range.
