Just hours after being discharged from the hospital following a nasty flu and subsequent diabetes related issues, I just couldn't help but head out and nab CP 281 after learning it sported a trio ... (more)
On my firs trip to the DM&E since mid March, i was greeted with three trains at Florence. Unfortunately the first train, a BNSF grain shuttle, ate up most of the morning being handed back over to ... (more)
Shortly after leaving Glenwood, this quartet of EMDs are working their way up to 60 mph with a very long manifest. As you might imagine, the sound of these units was just fantastic!
A quartet of blue and yellow SD40-2s blast into Brooten with an eastbound priority freight. Flooding in St Paul forced the CP to run trains 170/171 all the way out to Glenwood.
A four pack of DME/ICE power can be hard to find now days with all the lease power. Typically this train would terminate in Pigseye but due to the impending flood, it's returning from Glenwood, M... (more)
A long way from the grasslands of South Dakota and corn country of Iowa, a pair of DM&E SD40-2's and a CITX SD40-2 lead empty E-nol train K675 west through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
So far away.... from home these 2 DME units roam. Just a few hours earlier they were found exploring the east and west slopes of Sandpatch! CSXT K675-21
Due to crew members marking off to attend the funeral of two of their brothers, the DM&E ran empty and loaded ethanol trains across the CP in Wisconsin vs. their normal Northern Illinois routing. ... (more)