After the sun finally burns through the morning cloud cover, a pair of BN geeps rolls eastward on the return trip to Grand Forks with the twice weekly local to Mayville, ND.

Locomotives of Burlington Northern, Santa Fe and BNSF origins can be seen drilling the various tracks within Clyde Yard in Cicero with this view obtained from the Laramie Avenue overpass.

BN 2979, one of twenty-six GP39V's and BN 2184, one of thirty-five GP38X's, leads a cut of cars out of Eola. As luck would have it, BNSF 5134 snuck up behind me and made it into the scene just in ... (more)