Flat country, long train and a nice little mix of power. The perfect combination.

Now actually owned by UP this unit is in the last paint scheme and has teamed up to lead a large auto rack train.

The entire train in one shot. A local is working the quintessential industrial city.

Note the Automatic Train Stop shoe still in place.

Only North Western had these without dynamic brakes. They look a little "funny". And this is an interesting but rather typical consist in those days. They did get some with D/B-equipp... (more)

A nice string of unturbocharged power that must have sounded on a coal train.

Empty Wyoming coal heading back to the coal country. Merger is only 4 months off.

BN power pulling Wyoming coal on the SP for delivery to the hungry power plants near San Antonio.

BN power pulling an SP freight.

Empty unit coal train off the C&IM rolls thru town.

Not merged yet, this is a joint ATSF/BN coal train.

Look ma, no snow. LOL.

Sometime in the late seventies a WB freight is crossing the big trestle west of town. It may have been that blizzard we had one May 15th. Welcome to North Dakota.

Butthead cow and a homemade calf.

Westbound train with foreign power is tiptoeing thru the daisies. No tulips.