In Tiger Country... the Solway Elementary Tiger's that is.
Taken from the Bandana Square parking garage. Not much warning when these things come flying around the corner...
One of two remaining Maroon and Gold DMIR locomotives leads a raw taconite train enroute to Unitac where it will be processed into taconite pellets. For some reason the train went into emergency ... (more)
What a difference a week makes... one week ago we were receiving a foot of snow and blizzard-like conditions. I love shooting in the snow, but shooting in a T-shirt in the sun is almost as great.
A mixed freight rolls between Metra trains near Wheaton.
With summer instability thundershowers developing to the east, this Clay Boswell coal train is tied down in Cass Lake. Almost every DPU train I've seen through CL has been pushing with the long n... (more)
Coal empties are tucked away in the yard until a crew is called to take them east.
Passing the siding at Rosby - some of the oldest track in the area, cast in 1888 sits along the mainline. The track is still used to store cars between use.
Coal empties wait in the yard for coal loads to pass through before heading east. The crew would swap out and take the other train the same direction they came from.
Unfortunately Saturday is normally the slowest day of the week up here with only one train moving in daylight. Today's version was a coal load that pulled in to the Cass Lake Yard. With no DPU o... (more)
