A very late #8 shortly after departing St. Cloud, MN at 4:46pm, 11 hours and 32 minutes late.
8 inches of fresh snow cover the tracks through Wayzata. If you look closely you can see the remains of the fallen tree branches that 7324 plowed through about 1/2 mile back. The wet heavy snow ... (more)
Abandoned in December 1984, rails still lead up to the tunnel in the spring on 1990. They have long since been removed.
MRL 351 and 382 lead a Laurel, MT to Spokane, WA ribbon rail train after the sun has gone down over Trout Creek Montana.
Q train grinding up and out of the valley. BNSF 7903,BNSF 7207, BNSF 7631, and BNSF 7788.
On a beautiful spring afternoon, DMIR 215 leads BLE 903 down the 2.2% grade of Proctor Hill with a full load of Taconite for Dock 6, which can be seen in the distance along with Lake Superior and ... (more)
MRL 351 and 382 lead a Laurel, MT to Spokane, WA ribbon rail train.
PGR switcher #36 (Ex-Soo 1400) moves card loads of American Gypsum board at the Progressive Rail Distribution facility.
Early morning at Darling on BNSF's Seligman Sub.
Loaded coal train makes its way south around the S-curve on Main 3 at MP 65.
A trio of UP SD9043MAC's crawls across the almost 100 year old Robert Street lift bridge in downtown St. Paul. It was another 65 degree day in the Twin Cities.
CP 9704 leads a wind train along the Paynesville sub to Minneapolis.
One doesn't expect to see Canadian National on the BNSF Staples sub, but any train is a welcome sight through the eyes of a child.
Taconite cars as far as the eye can see. The PRS pushes cars onto dock 6.
The Keenan Switch plows a path back to the yard having died at Wilpen the previous day before the new fresh snow.