CN 527 across the bridge,with BRC 4625 and CN 7083 GP9
With several local jobs fanning out in all directions on most weekdays, Willmar continues to be a haven for older EMDs. A couple of sets of them sit near the sanding tower on a nice fall afternoo... (more)
After exchanging pleasantries, the northbound empties crew continue north while the southbound loads crew continue south. Mine to dock to mine to dock and around and around they go.
Bluebonnet 1760 has the honors of running on point for the day while sorting freight cars in the Denver Yard.
Racing back to U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to load more taconite pellets, DMIR 403, still in classic Missabe Road paint, leads freshly repainted BLE 903, IC 6255 and repainted sister DMIR 407 throu... (more)
After meeting an empty pellet train, DMIR 403 once again throttles up and begins to move crossing over from main one to main two on the CN Missabe Sub. before taking the left turn onto the CN Iron... (more)
One of the 2 unique Binghamton repaints leads the D&H 7303, one of the last 2 D&H lightning stripes, as the Saratoga to Kenwood turn job builds it's train for Saratoga.
The BNSF Argentine Yard to KCS Knoche Yard transfer rolls through the West Bottoms behind a Ex BN GP39E and a Yellow and Blue Santa Fe SD40-2 and a Pair of KCS six axle locomotives. The tower in t... (more)
All loaded out and departing U.S. Steel Minntac property with 143 loads of taconite pellets, DMIR 403 cruises at track speed down the CN Minntac Sub, then the CN Missabe Sub and finally the CN Iro... (more)
A bunch of goodies, including a J SD38-2 and a Bessemer SD38-2, hang in the south yard in Joliet.
Fronted by an ex-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Yellowbonnet, a line of power waits to be broken up, including the NS 1073 (Norfolk Southern's Penn Central heritage unit) which came into the yard on ... (more)
Its Throwback Thursday as two BN units (BNSF 2897 is a GP39M and BNSF 1415 is a SD60M) wait for servicing in the Denver BNSF engine facility.
With a bad winter and record setting crude oil traffic, 2014 was an unexpected, but much appreciated year of crazy motive power consists.
With the original SP number 7336 bleeding through, a rebuilt SD40 leads a 14,000 hp consist after a quick crew change at Tilford yard.
