A pair of SD60s crawl down the Cranbrook subdivision with an empty ballast train in tow; it is destined for Swansea, roughly 80 or so miles south, where it will be refilled and sent back north.

Loaded ballast train 3GPS waits its turn to depart St. Paul after changing crews at the RIPs. Meanwhile, a BNSF tie train sits tied down in the Bluff Yard, and a CP top end job with an SD40-3 is b... (more)

My final shot of this train was at the curve east of Sedan. The train was approaching the final few miles before tying down in Glenwood for the night.

The train heads throttles up into Belgrade, just passing through the Murray West siding switch.

The ballast train heads west into the namesake town of the subdivision, passing a soybean field. In the background, Rice Lake can be seen.

A trio of standard cab EMDs lead a ballast train west on the Paynesville Sub, seen here rolling past the pond near Buffalo.

CP train 3GPS heads into the blazing golden hour sunlight as it races up the Mississippi River for St Paul and points west.

CP 6069 West follows the La Crosse River State Trail into La Crosse.

3GPS at Red Rock with an unlikely trio of Multimark SD40-2s. Unsurprisingly, the 6067 went belly up, so they had to pick up the 5040 in La Crosse. This train was loaded in Waterloo WI, and will be... (more)

I always wanted to shoot a SOO SD60 with mis-matched number boards, but since those are all gone ill gladly take the the CP SD40-2 with mis-matched number boards.

CP train 3GPS approaching Wisconsin Dells as it skirts the Wisconsin River with a trio of SD40-2s doing the honors.

A CP Dresser Turn is stalled out at Dresser Trap Rock after losing the CP 5922 to mechanical failure. Unfortunately, CP hasn't loaded any trains here in 2020, and has instead been sourcing all of ... (more)

A pair of Multimark SD40-2s and an SD60 interloper lead 3GPS through Red Rock after a crew change at St. Paul. This train spent the morning dumping ballast on the west end of the Paynesville Sub, ... (more)

Empty ballast train 3GPS crosses the Hastings Bridge with a matched elephant style trio of action red SD40-2s. The train is enroute to Waterloo WI for another load of ballast.

CP 3GPS comes into Hastings with another load of Dresser Trap Rock ballast destined for a major undercutting project on the Marquette Sub in Iowa.