An empty BNSF iron ore train heads back to Minnesota for another load of taconite. Directly in front of us is the Mississippi, covered in snow and ice.
With its cigar band peeling away, this veteran EMD drags a coal load slowly uphill out of Hawley on a pleasant May morning.
Pushing hard on the tail end of a empty through some fall colors in Colorado Springs. All of this color would soon be lost, as the first freeze would come just hours later.
A pair of electro motive veterans cruise east over a short causeway with coal loads for Superior, WI.
An approaching storm threatens as BNSF 9851/9578 and loaded coal drag wait near Palmer Lake for a northbound train to clear the single line section on the Joint Line between Palmer Lake and Colora... (more)
COB empties slink westbound through downtown Grand Forks behind a faded Pumpkin II MAC cursed with a peeling cigar band on the nose. The Grand Forks County Office Building is the structure to the... (more)
Where have all the SD60s/SD60Ms/SD75Ms/SD75Is gone?!? That's all you used to see on coal trains up here, but the winds of change might have blown through on 'traditional' northern plains coal pow... (more)
Norfolk Southern 667, with BNSF 9851, 8803, & 9928, head west on the Toledo belt, in Toledo, Oh., heading for CP Maumee, and the Chicago line to Chicago and the BNSF.
An assortment of locomotives are sitting at NS'S Norris Yard service center awaiting their next assignment
Eastbound coal train slips through the Arkansas early on a cold morning.
