Red River Valley & Western 2628 and 2018 back their train into the western section of the yard and cross the Bois de Sioux River separating Wahpeton, North Dakota and Breckenridge, Minnesota. Tim... (more)
RRVW train BRHA10, the Hankinson Turn, diverges off the BNSF Morris Subdivision. Utilizing BNSF trackage rights, it will serve customers on the CP all the way to Hankinson, ND.
RRVW's Hankinson Turn heads west across CP trackage rights to the yard at its namesake destination. It paused here at the siding at Oswald to let an empty Bakken oil train run around it.
RRVW's Hankinson Turn stops to set out a few cars at Hankinson Renewable Energy's ethanol plant. The other RRVW GP20C will be picked up the next day by CP for transit to the Twin Cities.
The RRVW Hankinson Turn rolls across a small bridge just south of Campbell. In a few miles they'll turn west onto the CP for the remainder of their trip from Breckenridge, MN to Hankinson, ND.