With the Ryder Cup now a memory, CP brings their train back to Canada. But not before spending a lovely evening traveling the western reaches of Minnesota. Here, just east of Brooten, MN.
The sun is below the horizon and a waxing crescent moon is not far behind as an eastbound CP train rushes past the intermediate signals west of Brooten.
A westbound blasts through Brooten behind a pair of AC4400CWs. The last time I took a picture here was back in early March after a snowstorm when the windchill was well below zero. more)
The snow is done falling and the sun has come out, so with a couple of westbounds showing on ATCS, I trudged out of the office and headed for home via the tracks. I had no clue what was coming, a... (more)
The mail and the railroad: two things that keep moving no matter what the weather. A westbound CP train heads through town on a windy and snowy day and past a local's mailbox.
Snow has been pretty scarce around here this winter, but the flakes are flying in early March as the H55 wayfreight rolls into Brooten from the west to do some work. Two former Soo Line GP38-2s l... (more)
I think this is the first of the Olympic scheme units I've caught leading a train, seen rounding a curve just east of Brooten. The covered hoppers in the distance are on what remains of the Broot... (more)
This one's for Ben. The sun rises on the 5th anniversary of the earthquake that tragically claimed so many lives in Haiti, including a Lutheran seminarian and my friend, Ben Larson. The first tr... (more)
My first train picture of 2015 with some worthy motive power. Two GP20C-ECOs bracket a former SOO GP38-2, leading a string of empty hopper cars toward a meet at Murray. They would run around the... (more)