The Northern Lights shine over the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge in Hastings as a westbound train crosses the river.
Two things I was not expecting in Hastings today: 1) The Empire Builder, running 7 hours late, and 2) led by a Cascades F59!
The way freight crosses the Mississippi River Bridge into Hastings, where it will stop to set out cars.
A matched set of Candy Apple Red SD60s crosses the Mississippi River.
Milwaukee Road #261 and train crosses over the Mississippi River and join up with the BNSF for the final run into the Twin Cities.
BNSF 9843 leads a coal train out of St. Paul, Minnesota down a very cold and ice covered Mississippi River past Lock and Dam #2 near Hastings. Lock and Dam #2 was built original built in 1907. Fol... (more)
A trio of SD60's and some mixed freight rattle the steel as they roll across the ex-Milwaukee Road (note herald) ex-Soo Line now CP Rail drawbridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Hastings,... (more)
Amtrak heritage unit 184 throttles up as it accelerates out of Hastings, following an unscheduled stop to tend to an overheated passenger.
A very late train No. 8, led by heritage unit No. 184, rolls across the Mississippi River into Hastings. The train made a brief stop for paramedics to check out a passenger suffering from heat st... (more)
The ex-Milwaukee drawbridge hosts an Eastbound run through coal train with a schnazzy SD70ACe leader.
The Empire Builder exits over the south side of the Mississippi River Lift Bridge that still bears signs of its Milwaukee Road heritage. Next stop: Red Wing, MN.
CP 170 rolls through Hastings as storms move into the metro after another hot summer day.
170s train crosses the Mighty Mississippi at Hastings with a trio of blue and yellows.
ICE 6420 and leaser GCFX 3088 rumble east along the CP River sub.
CP 498 crosses the former Milwaukee Road Lift Bridge across the Mississippi River in Hastings.
