Was hoping for the nice BN GP30 leading but instead got stuck with this ex Penn Central Rent-A-Wreck.
An EMD leaser and a Santa GP tug 63 cars from Duluth's Rice's Point and Mike's Yard across the now frozen St. Louis River in a fairly intense snow squall.
A lone EMDX GP 38 rests at the locomotive terminal, makes one wonder why the BNSF is still leasing locos when they have so many of their own layed up.
The Brainerd Local returning to the yard after servicing the Wausau Paper mill. It will run about seven blocks down 1st Ave NE to the yard where it picked up a few more mtys, then back to Superio... (more)
Yard job using the Brainerd Turn's power runs coal loads around the wye at Connors Point so the cars are pointed the right direction for the dumper at Midwest Energy.
BNSF Harvest States job spots loaded cars into CHS.
A trio of geeps await their next assignment out of Superior.
The daily South Local returns to the Grand Forks yard.
EMDX 792 leads the daily South Local past FO Switch and onto the Hillsboro Subdivision.
I felt we needed a different shot from Joliet.