A pair of NS heritage units, the Monongahela and Lackawanna, lead a string of loaded oil cans through St. Paul towards Chicago.
An Indiana Railroad SD9043MAC leads a southbound CP freight out of St. Paul. This was my first encounter with an INRD unit, both of us far from our normal operating territories.
Just underway to start a day of moving gons full of reclaimed steel scrap to be recycled into rebars and billets.
An NS led BNSF Manifest is seen here passing through Newport. We were pacing this one out of Pig's Eye and were able to beat it to the bridge.
The engineer on the daily Scrap Iron job gives a friendly wave as the train rolls through Newport. He has a reason to smile - he's retiring in a few months!
The BN Transfer from Northtown shoves back into Canadian Pacific's Dunn Yard. The reactivated SD60Ms are a welcome change from the normal Dash 9s usually assigned to this train.
Remote-control SW1200 makes a switch move at Gerdau Steel.
BNSF 4890 scoots by a pair of ex-BN SD60Ms waiting to yard the BN Transfer at Canadian Pacific's Dunn Yard.
CP 8719 is running in DP mode on train #298, departing the Twin Cities for Portage after a crew change.
A pair of geeps pull a local out of Pigs Eye yard.
CP 6055 hold the main line at Red Rock, ready to head east towards Portage. The local Scrap Iron job is tied down for lunch on the Industrial Lead.
The days are getting shorter and the shadows are getting in the way already as the SD60's roll through Newport, MN heading for the Twin Cities a few miles away in the last light of the day.
The Builder through Newport with Amtrak heritage unit #184 trailing.
An "on-time" performing Empire Builder passes through the milepost 402.8 defect detector through Newport, Minnesota en route to Red Wing.
One of CP's newest locomotives makes its first run across the border on the head end of train #298, bound for Chicago.
