One of the SOO cabooses in the brown scheme brings up the rear of a NB SOO local.
The eastbound CP road local crosses the Mississippi river. With work at many of the towns along the river, it will be a long trip to La Crosse.
SOO mixed freight with two SD60's running elephant style is coming off the SOO River Sub and entering the Joint Line Sub at St. Croix interlocking at 4:12PM. From here to St. Paul trackage is shar... (more)
They're back....After spending a year and a half in storage due to a down turn in traffic, a pair of BNSF SD60M's are back on the road hauling freight.
The Empire Builder left the Twin Cities right on time, but 25 miles to the southeast that is no longer the case. The dispatcher recieved a signal that the lift bridge across the Mississippi in th... (more)
Soo 4444,4419,4451,4421 on #216 just after crossing the Mississippi River bridge.
MBKX empties head west along the river led by a couple of Dash 9's.
After a short wait east of town, this priority intermodal heads across the river in the last light of the day.
Steam engine SP 4449 glides through on the west main, approaching Saint Croix tower. This train went 60mph virtually the entire way down the double-track BNSF mainline along the Mississippi River... (more)
Clouds broke just in time to spy CP's welded rail train crossing the Mississippi into Hastings.
To say it was foggy, might be an understatement. CP coke empties cross the Hastings lift bridge before the sun could burn off all the fog.
MILW 261 crosses the Mississippi River on their way back to Minneapolis after a week of excursions in Wisconsin.
A weed sprayer is tied up on the Vermillion Stub Track.
The MRL trio is back on a coke empty, only this time a CP AC4400 just had to tag along.
The Milwaukee Road Herald is still present on both sides of this lift bridge that crosses the Mississippi River. Since the Milwaukee Road owned it, the Soo Line and now Canadian Pacific owns it. D... (more)
