The St. Paul local has a gorgeous matched set of Soo power heading down the frozen Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minnesota.
A Soo Line SD60 leads a string of red Canadian Pacific GEs up the Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minnesota.
Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern SD40-2s make time up the Canadian Pacific's River Sub on a very cold and frosty morning at Maple Springs, MN.
A few fisherman enjoy their evening as Canadian Pacific SD40-2 5739 heads west up the Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minnesota on their way towards St. Paul.
171s train heads north past Maple Springs with a pair of blue and yellows.
BNSF 9924 as DPU on an eastbound coal drag by Maple Springs.
The eastbound Builder crawls by Maple Springs at 10mph due to a broken rail. This held up traffic the entire morning making the afternoon a non stop cluster.
With temps in the single digits, my lungs were burning when I got to the top of the hill just in time to shoot this mixed freight headed west on the River Sub. Well worth the hike.
AMTK 8 skirts the Mississippi River passing from town to town. The last one they went through was Lake City seen the top right corner.
A pair of blue and yellows take this westbound to Saint Paul.
Just a bit behind the advertised, the eastbound Empire Builder flies through one of the trademark curves south of Lake City in Maple Springs, MN.
Close on the tail of 811, 581 heads west thru Maple Springs for its next stop in Lake City behind a pair of veteran EMDs.
With BNSF power leading the way, COLX empties from Wisconsin Power in Portage head west through one of the big S curves in Maple Springs, MN.
A pair of Candy Apple Red GP38-2's haul 581 west on the River Sub.
After SOO 6054 failed in route, the crew had to rearrange the power placing the third unit in the lead. They're seen at Maple Springs as they try and gain speed, down one unit.