At Chicago's busy Lumber Street Amtrak facility, a maintenance-of-way worker welds a section of rail under absolutely bone chilling conditions.
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BNSF 7934 races past the trackside businesses of Pepin, Wisconsin as a frigid January evening sets in. Earlier in the day we followed the Canadian Pacific and BNSF on our Freeport, IL to St. Paul, MN leg of the trip. Later that evening, a delicious Italian dinner was enjoyed at "Mama Maria's" in Hudson, Wisconsin - a place I highly recommend to anyone travelling to the Twin Cities.
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Six days into 2017, a pair of former Burlington Northern EMD SD60Ms conjure up an image of railroading in the 1990s as they lead the BNCP transfer into Pig's Eye Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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A Canadian Pacific transfer from Pig's Eye Yard climbs "Short Line Hill", leaving the city of St. Paul for neighbouring Minneapolis, Minnesota on a frigid winter's day.
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With a rather eclectic consist, Amtrak's Empire Builder snakes through the electric hand-switches in St. Paul's MNNR yard. Today's train no. 8 was running just over three hours behind schedule and would leave the BNSF behind in the Twin Cities.
Title inspired by Ed King, as suggested by John Gruber.
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