A CSX Dash 9 takes this oil train onto the Minnesota Prairie Line soon to enter the small town of Hamburg on this muggy summer evening.
Empty oil train 577 heads north (or technically west) on the Detroit Lakes Sub with a pair of Belles sandwiching a CP AC44, past a field of corn soon to be harvested.
An unusual pair of CN GEs take an ethanol train south on the Marshall Sub into Clara City.
CP 646 heads through Pioneer Trail with an odd leader, a BNSF H1 dash 9, not something too common on this line. Light was rapidly fading by this point, with the train waiting in the hole for 2 wes... (more)
RCPE's Mankato to Aurora manifest heads west into Judson with a 4 pack of SD40-2s. The train left Mankato later than usual due to UP's MSSDM manifest having engine trouble leaving town.
The Northtown Yard to Lincoln, NE manifest heads through the Buffalo Ridge in southwestern Minnesota.
MNAU winds its way through the Buffalo Ridge on the final stretch to Aurora, SD late on this extremely muggy evening. The mosquitoes were an absolute pain at this spot, but it was worth the wait.
A snow squall ensues as train 313 heads west into South Haven, where they will go into the siding to meet an eastbound.
A pair of CP GEs take a sand train west on the Paynesville Sub over the Clearwater River trestle near South Haven, narrowly avoiding a cloud.
With work done for the day, the east local has a straight shot westbound back to home base in Willmar.
Not your typical power on the CP, a BNSF GEVO and unpatched warbonnet (#697) lead an empty sand train west towards Glenwood.
After working Atwater, the east local flies through Grove City on its way to work Howard Lake, where it will turn back west.
NTWLAU heads west on the Wayzata Sub with some nice fall foliage.
A warbonnet leads NTWLIN west on the Wayzata Sub.
A pair of GEVOs from both BNSF and CSX lead a manifest west through Clear Lake on the Staples Sub.
