A westbound Burlington Northern local freight—comprised of two EMD GP20s, six wood chip gons and a caboose—zips past the wood frame station at Cromwell, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985.
This former GN snow dozer (972532, X-7629) creates a ground blizzard as it rolls west on the Brainerd Sub at 45 MPH. When hard packed snow gets above the rail they call out the dozers, which help ... (more)
The Brainerd Local crosses the Tamarack River en route west with two boxcars for the shuttered Wausau paper mill.
A 30 car Brainerd Local makes its way West through the small town of Cromwell on the Brainerd Sub
Coal loads head east for Superior, Wisconsin.
As legendary engineer Frank Christopherson will tell you, up here the Burlington Northern ruled the roost. Brainerd Local kicks up snow as they thunder, and I mean thunder, through the dense fores... (more)
Dashing through the snow... with a peach 70MAC lead-ing... Rolling track speed through Cromwell on the rarely shot Brainerd Subdivision. Oddly enough, this empty coal train had about 30 grain car... (more)
MERC coal loads pass under the Cromwell overpass behind three DC motor EMD's.
Unusual 80-car train of empty taconite (iron ore) cars heads west to Columbus, Montana to load chromium ore for movement through the Port of Duluth. Coal cars will replace the ore cars in this se... (more)