It took until nearly the end of February, but I finally got a shot of a train in a snowstorm in 2012. A CEFX leaser, another AC4400, and a GP38-2 lead a westbound past the block signal in Brooten... (more)
It's a foggy winter morning in central Minnesota as an eclectic mix of power leads a CP train east through Brooten.
The fog and frost are thick in the Chippewa River valley east of Hoffman as an eastbound CP freight train rumbles toward Glenwood.
With several days of fog, virtually no wind, and below freezing temperatures, the frost is as thick as I've ever seen it, evidenced by this broom and shovels at the west end of Glenwood Yard. The... (more)
A westbound unit tank train departs a foggy Glenwood Yard on the main, headed for the Elbow Lake Subdivision and another load of crude oil in North Dakota.
On another foggy and frosty winter morning in central Minnesota, an eastbound CP train gets underway again at Murray East after holding the main to meet a westbound empty coal train. Trailing in ... (more)
A few of my favorite trees look on as an eastbound Canadian Pacific train emerges from some thick fog just east of Brooten.
A frosty faced CP 6228, one of CP's recently repainted Soo Line SD60s, looms out of the fog in Brooten as it heads east with a rail train.
A foggy and frosty morning on the Minnesota prairie finds CP's wayfreight negotiating the rolling track profile between Brooten and Sedan.
The first major snowstorm of the winter is in full swing in Willmar as three EMDs idle on the roundhouse lead and five more work the east end of the yard.
The snow is really flying in Willmar as a pair of BN veterans await their next assignment.
My Halloween treat: seven EMDs leading train 497 through the fog toward Glenwood in the early morning.
A westbound with a nice all EMD lashup looms out of the fog as the sun rises on Halloween morning, 2011.
With the sun just coming up, a westbound creeps through the fog and down the siding at Murray, where it will wait on a couple of eastbounds.
Fog, trains, and early morning sunlight mingle at Murray West.