After adding 13 more cars out in Goodview, G69 shoves 22 cars for the UP into their yard.
After returning to the train and preforming an air-test, 581-22 was back on the move west with a decent train. Hot on it's heels was 271, who had been holding at Homer.
2 NS horses race west with a train for Northwtown. It was a really close race to Fountain City, but with seconds to spare we were able to get to the right side of the tracks before the gates activ... (more)
Passing milepost 18, train #276 marches out of Lewiston behind four SD40-2's.
With a block on manifest on the head-end, empty tanker train #637 slows for Tower CK behind a 6-pack of dash-2's.
Rumbling into Byron, train #277 appears to have traveled back in time to the days before the sale... minus the new ribbon rail of course.
581 makes a mid afternoon appearance on the River Sub. The train with its awesome Soo GP38-2/SD60 lash-up, is seconds away from rattling over the switches at Tower C.K.
Catching one Soo SD60M is rare, but two on one train?! Just before 09:00, train 2-282 is back on the move at Bangor after going dead in the siding at 00:15. Thankfully the thick fog coating the ar... (more)
A lone CSX Gevo is in charge of a CSXT hopper train as it rolls onto single track at Winona Junction. This was the third of 3 eastbound trains.
A nice set of EMD motors rumble north out of Owatonna with a short 30 car train in tow.
With no meet at Minnesota City, the hogger kicks his pair of Dash-2's up another notch as they race westward on train #271.
With the tracks slicing through town at odd angles it sure can make the roadwork interesting. Here is an example of that just east of Hamilton Street, meanwhile 198 heads east, ready to overtake 2... (more)
Rolling right along the bank of the mighty Mississippi, train #277 motors westward into the evening sun behind IC&E 6449, DM&E 6080, and StL&H 5593.
This made up for me missing a 498 with Soo 6060 and 6039 earlier in that day. Train 581-31 has a bandit GP40 leading on milwaukee rails.
A CP 5942 is in charge of coke empties for Roseport on a sunny afternoon.