H-GFDGAL departs right on time with another duo of foreign power, this time behind Norfolk Southern black!

Pretty much any power shows up on the daily H-train, as a B40-8 leads a Pumpkin trio out of the yard as EMDX 9085 looks on. In almost a year and a half, I saw one B40-8; I've seen two in the last... (more)

The one and only Oakway with the EMD herald returns to the Red River Valley a month and a half after I caught it with Ardoch empties. This time it's Ardoch loads being positioned to back into the... (more)

Much like Conrail's fleet of C40-8Ws, this Pumpkin unit is afflicted with a bad coat of paint. H-GFDGAL waits to leave the yard late in the day...

Another view of the H-GFDGAL with BNSF 5386 running as DPU south on the Hillsboro Sub.

After loaded coal cleared off the Hillsboro Sub, the H-train leaves Grand Forks CP-style with a lone unit up front.

Loaded Clay Boswell coal storms north on the Hillsboro Sub and into Grand Forks. Learn more at Grand Forks Railfanning<... (more)

This round of re-routes head in both directions this year with this stack train coming off the Devil's Lake Sub and heading south on the Hillsboro Sub.

A happy water tower looks over empty Clay Boswell hoppers and its Triclops leader while the crew waits for fuel.

Where's the train?!? I thought this was going to be H-GFDGAL, but instead it's the power for a grain train to be picked up at Alton. Note the FRED on the front walkway.

A trio of visitors (two CSX Dash 8s and an NS high-hood Geep) lead a short Grand Forks - Galesberg H-train out of the yard for an unimpeded run south on the Hillsboro Sub to Fargo

A rusty SD40-2 leads a duo of Cascade Green classics and a 110 car manifest north on the Hillsboro Sub and into the yard at Grand Forks.

The daily H-train leaves the yard in Grand Forks and rounds the east leg of the wye on the Hillsboro Sub. The Devil's Lake Sub can be seen running off the left of the frame.

A seven car Drayton local passes over its final crossing before entering the Grand Forks yard

Don't let the full NS lashup confuse you; this is still North Dakota! NS 9119 leads this manifest by the dwarf signal and into the yard at The Forks. Second unit is ex-CNOTP high-hood GP50!