The cab in the lead unit was full as the Empire Builder heads for its next stop in Winona. They lost a bit of time at River Junction as the dispatcher had no choice other than to run them through... (more)
Cascades service from Vancouver B.C. arrives on time in Seattle.
Dusk settles on a busy Willmar yard as priority merchandise snakes down main two for a crew change.
An inbound stack train from Logistics Park, Illinois passes the outbound officer special O-SEANWE. The special was full of passengers heading to New Westminster, B.C.
A special train of BNSF brass coasts west behind a clean warbonnet as the sun starts to sag in the sky. Order of the cars behind the power was: Columbia River - Bay View - Powder River - Colorad... (more)
I wasn't expecting to find any drifts for this empty grain train to bust through on the Marshall Sub. As luck would have it, a local farmer had just finished clearing out the drifts in his drivewa... (more)
The dual scheme, one of a kind, BNSF 9297 heads east for Willmar on the Appleton Sub with a high priority merchandise train from Pasco, WA to Northtown, MN.
As thunderstorms form in the west, a manifest train snakes through the Sheyenne River Valley in Valley City.
A very rare EMD (ex GN I think) on the point of the M train today. Regular Merchandise - Dilworth, MN - Lincoln, NE.
The one of a kind SD60M struggles with a long regular merchandise train from Grand Forks, ND to Northtown Yard.
A unit ballast train from St. Cloud, MN heads east with a lone EMD as the power.
The first eastbound after the snowplow went through is this empty grain train heading for Murdock, MN.
The Empire Builder is right on time as it passes just below downtown St. Paul on a beautiful September morning.
Just before sunset, a pair of EMDs shove hard on coal loads climbing the hill toward Dickinson. The 8281 will cut off just up the hill in Fryburg and return to Glendive for another shove.
The daily priority intermodal train for Laurel, MT is back on the Appleton Sub, complete with 48 axles and 8,800 hp.
