Parallel Railroads
Here in Fairmont, Minnesota wedged between George Lake and Sisseton Lake, two railroads built their respective lines in the narrows and crossed Center Creek. A Union Pacific manifest freight passes between the lakes on the Northwestern Railroad grade that eventually was acquired by the UP in 1996. In the foreground is the Milwaukee Road, still used by Harsco Rail as a test track for rail equipment. The two railroads used to parallel each other from Fairmont to Welcome, but that is no longer the case. Canadian Pacific, the company operating the Milwaukee Road line (formerly DME/ICE), crosses the UP here in Fairmont then uses trackage rights from a switch downtown and west to Welcome before continuing towards Jackson, the namesake of the Jackson Subdivision.
Parallel Railroads
Here in Fairmont, Minnesota wedged between George Lake and Sisseton Lake, two railroads built their respective lines in the narrows and crossed Center Creek. A Union Pacific manifest freight passes between the lakes on the Northwestern Railroad grade that eventually was acquired by the UP in 1996. In the foreground is the Milwaukee Road, still used by Harsco Rail as a test track for rail equipment. The two railroads used to parallel each other from Fairmont to Welcome, but that is no longer the case. Canadian Pacific, the company operating the Milwaukee Road line (formerly DME/ICE), crosses the UP here in Fairmont then uses trackage rights from a switch downtown and west to Welcome before continuing towards Jackson, the namesake of the Jackson Subdivision.