A pair of BNSF ES44AC's power a eastbound coal load up the grade through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs,ND on 7/31/12.
BNSF 8293 leads a coal load eastbound just west of Hebron,ND, as it crosses into the Central Time Zone from the Mountain Time Zone on 8/5/07. The road I am standing on(and continues down the hill,... (more)
A coal load passes the signal for the westbound track.
Coal trains only run thru here when being detoured. Due to a derailment in North Dakota, a load for Superior, WI takes the long way around from Lincoln-Galesburg-Twin Cities.
Another coal load for MERC in Superior, WI rounds the curve east of the Missouri River bridge.
MERC coal loads with BNSF 8204 creep toward Hawley eastbound and will have to wait as three westbounds clear off his main at the crossovers located there.
Spring appears to be finally taking hold as the ice melts from a pond east of Sanborn. In the distance a string of Railbox boxcars are stored on the branch to Rogers, North Dakota.
Lots of eastbound action on the Staples Sub this morning, here a Triclops leads coal through the S-curves at Lake Park.
Loaded coal slowly making its way east out of the Red River Valley with an Oakway SD60 splicing a pair of whiteface Triclops.
