The spring thaw is in the air as the conductor of an eastbound rail train gives me a friendly wave near Alexandria. Always great to see something other than red leading a train on the Canadian Pa... (more)
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Heading back to the Midwest.
A fifteen hour late BRC Clearing to Nahant, IA manifest train heads west passing Reinking Road in Pingree Grove.
Sitting out in the cold, about to have the snow brushed off her cab.
DM&E SD40-3 6069 backs up into IC&E's Nahant Yard. After a long day's work, it's work is completed. A KCS unit peaks into the scene off to the right.
DM&E SD40-2 6069 and IC&E SD40-2 6427 back towards the roundhouse at Nahant Yard.
The daily westbound ICE train in running on CP trackage rights to St. Paul, MN.
This semaphore distant signal protects ICE's crossing of the UP's Ft Dodge sub at Garner. Both eastbound and westbound distant signals were retired on 12/05/06. Now a plain yellow light distant si... (more)
As the day comes to an end, LSN heads back to Spencer with a 9 car hide-wide special.
Two DME units prepare to back up into the ICE yard in Marquette. The train was fairly long so they had to pull a little over a mile down to Mc Gregor.