I never thought I'd be shooting nearly new CP GEVOs in Cass Lake. Units are on HP payback and have been sitting in Cass Lake Yard for three days now, the train is made up of 14 cars of MoW equipm... (more)
Just after sunrise on a beautiful kick off to summer '08, a Clay Boswell coal train roars up Cuba Hill while gracefully waking up any sleeping creatures in the Chippewa National Forest. The sweet... (more)
Hit a couple trucks that get hung up on the grade crossing, put up a sign!
A shorter than normal taconite empty is heading toward Mountain Iron where they will take on another load of taconite. The train is only 80 cars long this afternoon with two former Missabe Maroon... (more)
An ACe up front and an AC4400 pushing on the rear. More info at OutstateMinnesotaRail.
The BNSF 8907 waits on their empties as the BNSF 9353 has just pulled in the yard and tied down. The M-GFDSUP will be arrive shortly and passing on the main.
Obviously not the power of choice for on the point... a very crusty faded POSUM.
The pair of Soo Line 60's that made their way to the BNSF continue their work as they front the M-SUPMIN through Ball Club. More ... (more)
Early morning light exagerates the reflective material on this fiarly clean ACe as a coal empty creeps up behind me.
Hard to believe two weeks ago, two EMDX/Oakway SD60's were pulling the same train, but were pushing through 30 inches of fresh snow! Today, the sun burned off the fog and the temperature flew up ... (more)
An AC GEVO has the honors today as they are about to get on the mainline for a run through Minneapolis.
This train will pass over the Mississippi River twice on the Lakes and Grand Forks Subs... once the river is flowing north, the other it is flowing south. Just 21 miles to the south, the river is... (more)
Coal loads are tied down in the Cass Lake Yard, next to a BNSF work train with CP GEVO's.
A hopper train is seen in the distance rolling north on the former Missabe as the DMIR 403 leads raw taconite to the processing plant.
Stack train rolling through Lombard.