A nice, clean CSX C40-8W leads train #661 right into the setting sun as it approaches Tower CK. The train would duck into the siding at Minnesota City for a very tardy Amtrak 8.
With 19 from River and Rail, job 01 crawls past the dilapidated Leeve Yard. Currently all yard tracks are out of service, and only #3 track is in operating condition. Word was back in the day, thi... (more)
Passing the Bud King Ice Arena, Job 01 pulls a cut of 8-loaded sand gons onto the "mainline". Once fully on the main, they would shove the cut just beyond the switch, go grab 8 empties, and then p... (more)
Job 01 has train LTA-42 fully assembled and all ready to go on the old mainline, while an aging Northwestern switch stand battles a late April snow storm.