The crew only has a few more cars left to load at Dresser Trap Rock, before they're ready to head back towards St. Paul with their loaded Herzog ballast train.

CP 6068 puts on a good show as it transits the CN's Dresser Sub with empty rock train 3HDR. The train will load at Dresser Trap Rock, before returning west to the Twin Cities.

CP 3GPS pulls back down from Dresser Trap Rock after losing CP 5922 to a mechanical failure. Unable to make it back to St. Paul with only two operable SD40-2s, the crew will tie down the train on ... (more)

CP 3GPS-04 pulls down past the east leg of the wye in Dresser, in order to shove up to the quarry. Three venerable GMD built SD40-2s provide power. Unfortunately the 5922 ended up failing, and the... (more)

UP 3070 pulls an empty coal train out of Xcel Energy's Allen S. King power plant. UP's entire fleet of Tier IV EMDs had been stored for several months, but a power imbalance caused by flooding was... (more)

A bottle train makes its way past the finishing division at US Steel's Great Lakes Works.

UP 2204-2202-4610 shove hard on a loaded Roseport coke train as it passes through Baldwin. The CNW station sign is still intact here.

It's hard to do much better than this on the UP these days. Roseport coke loads roll east through Roberts behind a clean Tier IV EMD and a crusty wide cab GE.

The CN's Barron Sub local, L520, comes into Lublin during its southward journey to Stevens Point. CN 2101 and IC 1020 made for a nice catch.

BNSF train H-BRCNTW9 (UP symbol FHBRCN) heads west through Eau Claire on the UP's Altoona Sub. Flooding on the BNSF mainline in Wisconsin has prompted the BNSF to detour a few of these trains over... (more)

CN L516 heads east through Boyceville with a venerable C40-8M leading the way.

MSSAL rolls east through Hersey with a venerable trio of 3-window SD60Ms leading the way. This train departed the Belt Yard at midnight, but it soon lost its second unit (the one in new paint) and... (more)

A very late MSSAL rolls east through Baldwin with a trio of SD60Ms leading the way. This train departed the Belt Yard at midnight, but it soon lost its second unit (the one in new paint) and stall... (more)

Four former CSX SD70Ms lead MALSS west across the UP Altoona Sub. UP has recently started leasing former CSX AC6000CWs and SD70Ms from Progress Rail Leasing in order to help alleviate their power ... (more)

CN L506 is tied down at MP 429 on the Minneapolis Sub with an SD40u (SD40-2Q) and a C44-9WL. CN 6018 was picked up by this train at Northtown about a week earlier after it underwent an overhaul at... (more)