Smokey Hill Railway's lone GP9, supplied by Western Rail Corp., basks in the summer sun in the early 2000's.
A few John Deere and Case farm equipment head west for the upcoming harvest season.
IATR steeplecab # 51 will celebrate its 100th anniversary in five short years in 2021. Quite an amazing feat for this small locomotive.
A four unit eastbound Z intermodal train passes the former CB&Q brick depot at Prairie Du Chien WI.
A friendly conductor gives a wave to the photographer on this westbound manifest train on the BNSF Staples Subdivision.
The afternoon Northstar has just left the Ramsey station and will stop at Elk River before reaching its destination of Big Lake.
An eastbound CN manifest train approaches Hawthorne WI as it splits the old viaducts of the long abandoned DSS&A Rwy.
With a fresh crew on board at Pokegema Yard, this eastbound manifest is just a few miles into its journey on the CN's Superior Subdivision
St. Croix Valley power and an excavator bask in the weekend sun.
Some colorful fall red oaks serve as a backdrop for the first afternoon Northstar commuter as it heads to its final destination of Big Lake.
A couple of new Dash 9's in sequential order haul what looks to be an old #8 (Tacoma-Bedford Park) stack train judging by all the Evergreen containers.
A whiteface GP50 leads an intermodal train on the Mendota Subdivision. MP 160.
A lone St. Croix Valley GP9 and an empty HCl (hydrochloric acid) tanker sit on the Harris spur for the weekend.
Two SW1200's and two dozen tank cars are headed east to Breckenridge MN on BNSF trackage rights.
After switching a couple of local industries, this set of SW1200's bring back a healthy cut of cars to RRVW's yard in Breckenridge for classification.
