Working rail roads and their tracks.

[MossRoad]

Duluth MN. No date or info given. When we resided in SW SD along a main line BN track, I knew an old timer who serviced engines and he spoke about working on steam engines.
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I might have mentioned before that I have a friend in his 80's who's father's job was to clean out the fireboxes on steam engines. He recalled his father letting him sit in the cabs while he rotated the engine around on the turntable and then his dad would drive the engine over a pit and clean out the firebox. Put the engine back, repeat.

 

[ArlyA]

A BNSF of SD40-2 this past Saturday at local yard job used the set to pull an empty grain train from Duluth to Superior, shown here by CN's Lakehead Storage Facility. Duluth, MN - August 30, 2025 Note the size of those pellet piles....