on a warm May day, the NPR pulls a unit grain train from Russell North Dakota

I was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered today regarding the new version of the administration's transgender policy.

You can listen to the story and/or read the article at

www.npr.org/2018/03/26/597089569/transgender-air-force-of...

NPR SD40T-2 2853 and NPR SD60F 5525 are awaiting their next assignment at the Fordville Yard, ND. With only 2 units painted in the NPR colors it was a must to get shots of the 1 on the property at the time. The old CN SD60F was 1 of 2 active SD60Fs at the time while the other was in the shop getting load tested. The NPR is a class act and thanks to the people who allowed these photos to be taken. Taken with permission.

for Southwest Airlines.

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The rare larger version of the NKR.

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1970 Land Rover 109" Series 2a pick-up with aluminium canopy.

Northern Plains' TRF Turn passes through what remains of Rosewood, Minnesota. Most of the old town buildings are now private homes or storage. Rosewood was the first stop out of Thief River Falls on the Wheat Line roughly eight miles north and west of town. Today the NPR rolls through several times a week.

NPR 2853 is so far the only locomotive on the roster to get proper Northern Plains paint job. Some of the older geeps have a blue and yellow paint scheme, but it mimics the Santa Fe.

St Paul Mn in 2022.

Don't really know much about this unit, saw it driving by and decided to get out and take some pictures of it.

NPR crosses the Souris River - Lake Darling with empty grain hoppers

interchanging in Kenmare

NPR 1400, 2281, 2297 plod along at a blistering 10mph, Lansford a mere 8 miles away.

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A side profile roster shot of NPR 1905, now classified at a GP9 locomotive originally built as Rock Island 1282 before operating under the Chicago Northwestern and later Dakota and Iowa. The unit is not assigned to the Farmer's Elevator Company of Honeyford in Honeyford, North Dakota at the southern end of the spur from Forest River down through Gilby and Johnstown. The railroad was the Northern Pacific route from Grand Forks to Pembina and Winnipeg. It hosted NP's passenger train to Winnipeg. A Budd RDC used to traverse this area, imagine.

Fordville, ND

Hi-rail escorts Northern Plains ballast loads eastbound toward Tolley, ND in the distance.

coasting downhill passing the elevator in Greene, North Dakota. ahead is the causeway across Lake Darling and the uphill climb to Grano on the east side of the river.

Isuzu NPR recovery truck P309 NLM

Seen at the 2021 Peterborough Truckfest

The sign in the windscreen says restoration in progress

npr 2297 4652, gmtx 2206. the npr 4652 is newly acquired from the cp, it was actually repainted complete with the npr logo on the nose

ex 818 CFM 38 (France)

ex B-2095-VZ, Subministraments i Serveis, Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain

Iveco EuroRider 35 Noge Touring, 1999

Northern Plains Railroad units 1510, 2854, and 3502 with a half mile stretch to the Fordville yard. Doing a track speed of 25 mph, while crossing paths with me over a dozen times over a 4 hour period, the crew was probably glad to be home.

Isuzu NPR Garbage truck at Zurich

The Northwest Railway Museum had to do the pressure testing on work in progress NPR924 and made it into a short westbound run to the historic Snoqualmie Depot for a little show.

Northern Plains Railroad delivers a grain train to the CP at Kenmare, North Dakota

ex 7804 GWJ, Grupo SAMAR, Madrid, Spain

Mercedes-Benz O404 Irizar Century II, 2000