Just Your Average Spring Morning: Trees turning green, birds chirping, neighbors going for a walk. Oh, and SOO 4598 shoving 1500 tons of grain up the steep hill to Ardent Mills in Hastings. This is the old MILW Hastings & Dakota branch, or "H&D," which today only goes to the Hastings Flour Mill at the end of the line, a couple miles away. Taken while off duty, wearing full PPE.