An empty twenty eight car tailing train descends the last few miles towards Silver Bay.
With a SD40-3 on each end of the train, NSM 651 shoves 28 cars of 'tails' to Babbitt for unloading.
A hi-wide transformer special heads towards the Xcel Energy nuclear power plant in Monticello.
A host of grain elevators and silos provide a backdrop for this all EMD consist train.
A Missabe tunnel motor is sandwiched in between a couple of IC units on a tac loaded near Wolf.
With taconite pellets steaming enroute to Two Harbors, DMIR 409 leads a load at Ramshaw.
A lone CAT Diesel Power GP20C basks in the afternoon light adjacent to the Southern MN Beet Sugar Co-Op.
A unit windmill train passes thru Clara City on BNSF Marshall Sub.
A loaded oil train out of the Bakken Formation comes around a sweeping curve into Wahpeton ND. The track in the foreground is Red River Valley & Western RR former NP line to Casselton/Oakes ND.
An eastbound manifest on BNSF's Morris Subdivision passes thru Donnelly MN.
A pair of Geeps idle away under a chilly clear sky in front of the former GNRY St. Cloud depot.
The St. Cloud local is tied down for the night across from the former GN depot on this Black Friday.
A set of CP power for an ethanol train waits on the former Milwaukee Road transcon at Bongards MN.
It's a warm day with the cab door open as a set of light power heads east thru downtown Plato MN.
A corn syrup train awaits a new crew and a great public service bill board is in the background.
