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LTA42 rounds the classic curve at Dakota past the remains of a March snow storm. During the sand boom of the 2010s, LTA was quite healthy, running two trains a week and generally using three big motors. Car counts were still high with Bentonite traffic off the CP/RCPE. This interchange traffic originated from an agreement formed after CNW dumped the Alco Line and PRC onto the DME.
Little did we know at the time, change was just over the horizon. In 2017, UP and RCPE worked out a new agreement to interchange the Bentonite in Mankato, cutting into LTA's car counts. But even after the loss of the Bentonite, frac sand still kept enough traffic moving to warrant two trains. But this too would bottom out around 2018. The final nail in the coffin was UP's PSR plan and their extreme cost cutting initiatives. Thus, sometime in late 2019/early 2020, UP scaled back LTA to a once-a-week run, using a single SD and the Winona Job's geep.
Ilyushin Il-76TD
UK76375
Tashkent Aircraft Production Corporation
Domodedovo, Moscow, Russia
June 23, 2010
Dakota Minnesota and Eastern 6367 and mate, have a good roll on Canadian Pacific's hot stack train on this frosty morning just west of Ixonia. The DM&E 6367 was built in July 1974 for The Milwaukee Road as their MILW 206 and has traversed these rails many times.
Im August 2025 kam es zu einem seltenen Auswärtseinsatz der Darmstädter Museumslok DME 184. Dieser führte die Maschine vom Typ ELNA 6H nach Neustadt (Weinstraße), wo die Lok beim "Kuckucksbähnel" als Ersatz für die schadhafte ex ÖBB 378.78 einsprang und dabei vor dem Museumszug eine gute Figur abgab.
Mit dem Vormittagszug von Neustadt nach Elmstein ist die 1946 bei Henschel gebaute Privatbahnlok hier bei Iptestal unterwegs und wird in wenigen Minuten den nächsten Zwischenhalt Erfenstein erreichen.
A shot I got near Red Wing some years ago when I was travelling the area for work. I know getting a four pack of the B/Y's was pretty exciting at the time.
Another old memory from my Minnesota travels. These sure topped faded red GEVOs from a railfan perspective.
KCSM 4502 and a sister AC44 start the uphill climb onto Stockton Hill as they power a K29, a lifter symbol for a 547, seen here right at Milepost 7 on the former DME Waseca Sub
im Eisenbahnmuseum Darmstadt Kranichstein.
Diese ELNA -Typen wurden zwischen 1922 und 1946 gebaut, Die ELNA 6, von denen hier ein Exemplar beheimatet ist, gehört zu den schwersten Lokomotiven des ELNA-Programms und ist für den Strecken- und schweren Rangierdienst geeignet.
( „Engeren Lokomotiv-Normen-Ausschuss (ELNA)” )
Sadly I never spent a lot of time on the DME but a number of my friends and slide trading Buddy's sure went after it with a vengeance:). This is ex M-K now DME6057 leading a freight in frosty winter conditions at Balaton on January 29, 1999. Tom Farrell photo, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
One of the biggest drifts on the Jackson Line is Alden Hill. The crew this day was struggling to wing back the drift here. Out of the blue, the ditcher crew said told the engineer to back up a half mile. Leopard and I repositioned not knowing what was going on? Next thing we hear is, "ahead 40." Yeah what a experience! Glad the next snow storm was coming in to add some color to an all white shot. To this day I am not sure why the fly by in the middle of the winging job???
Ethanol loads approach Fostoria, Ohio on CSX with CP power in the form of DME 6366 leading on June 15, 2013.
A good memory from west of Waseca 10+ years ago. I miss the days when I traveled the state for work, and could arrange those travels based on sun angles and the path the ROW followed. Good times indeed.
Back in 2013 I was on my way home from northern Minnesota and was following google maps to Nahant, Iowa and I came across this.
DME 6363
DME 6068
CP 9664
CP 8734
ICE 109
July 19, 2013
A nice EMD pair consist of SOO 6038 and DME 6051, bring 243\'s freight past the London International Airport.
Thanks to 50 Mission Cap, I've gone down a bit of a 243 rabbit hole tonight. Over 10 years ago, 243 was a Toronto to Bensenville priority manifest train. Toronto would dispatch this train with whatever power was available, so it wasn't uncommon to see colourful EMD lashups on 243.
for the blog challenge #SecondLifeChallenge
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