4/22/12: Back still aching like a motherfucker....I tell the wife I'll go to Dominick's but swing by the IHB...just in time for a pair of SD20s heading the CASE farm equipment train to the NS for export to China or something...These engines! I love them...They will too soon be gone for new GENSET Shit!
With the air temperature at -12 and the wind chill around -20 a Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern train with a pair of Canadian Pacific SD40-2's sits on a siding just outside of Waseca, MN waiting for a new crew and warmer days. January 9, 2010
On March 6, 2010 a southbound Union Pacific mixed freight train takes the Farmington siding just north of Farmington, MN.
This line was once part of the Rock Island railroad. After the RI shut down C&NW purchased it and with the merger with UP is now just another line in the huge UP system.
In the background you can see tracks in the snow from snowmobiles. Just part of the winter fun here in Minnesota.
With matching locomotives and cars, this W&LE ore train looks more like a publicity train than anything else! The cars were fairly new at this time and there wasnt any graffiti on them either!
W&LE 641 leaves Bellevue, Ohio yard and is entering town where it will swing onto its mainline and head east in the late afternoon.
NS 8101, the CoG heritage unit is waiting to get track warrant to head for Millen, GA from the NS Savannah Dispatcher. Also time for me to move to another spot to get this again near the Airport.
IC 1018 along with CN 2187 leaves Bensenville Yard on it's way to Spaulding as train G35, out of photo to the right was CP Geometry train, but could not wait for it, because I had to go to work, & did not want to get there late.
The Illinois zephyr posed for a couple photo run by's including one with the team of Santa Fe FP45 92 and Wisconsin Central SD45 7525. Engineer Ray Weart gives a tug of the classic Leslie RS3l for the group of railfans gathered for the photo shoot.
KCS Train I-DAAT passing through Newman's Grove near Vicksburg, Mississippi on roadbed built in 1834. The train is about halfway through it's journey from Dallas to Atlanta.
A trio of new Union Pacific 4400 Horsepower Locomotives lead train I-HJNS across the Louisiana delta late on a cloudy October afternoon. The train is running at 60 mph on its way from Long Beach, California to Atlanta, Georgia. In a few miles, the train will cool it's heels as it crosses the Mississippi River and climbs the grade that leads through the steep bluffs on the east side of the river.
It's 8:30 am and the north bound train is ready to roll from Anchorage to Fairbanks Alaska. For this Alaska Railroad engineer it's just another day in the last fronteer. ENJOY!!!
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