Westbound power brilliantly illuminates the ground from behind some switching engines as a westbound manifest leaves the Minot CP yard. It's a handheld grab, noisy and shot at ISO 16000, so don't take it too seriously!
After the purchase of my latest DSLR (16 years after the first) a good friend and photography mentor has convinced me to embrace high ISOs that would have been INSANE in the film era. Indeed, your ISO is part of the story of your shot! Your alternatives might have been committing this scene to fallible and relatively unshareable memory!!
It was warmer back then in 2015 at Cedar Lake Junction on BNSF Wayzata Sub. Also the location of the old Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Cedar Lake Yard.
CP eastbound towards Minot Just west of Minot, eastbound CP manifest tonnage cruises by some veteran farm equipment. The CEFX rent-a-wreck seems to be "happy" to be working...
