Fargo, North Dakota [December 1999]

	An unusual Winter dawn at the Fargo Terminal's Dilworth Yard. Note the almost complete lack of snow on this December morning. The yard itself is nearly empty, as the grain harvest ended months ago.
The morning Fargo Yard job departs lite from Dilworth.
	Dilworth Yard hosts an intermodal terminal, as well as an automotive delivery facility. The latter is being switched today by a former NP/BN SW1200, looking resplendant in new Heritage 1 paint at the spry old age of 42.
The switch job snags one of BN's windowless vans from the caboose track.
	Meanwhile, further west in Dilworth, BNSF SW1000 3605 draws a car from an inbound consist...
...and kicks!
	At the far eastern edge of Dilworth Yard, an eastbound manifest passes the Northern Grain Elevator, a "prarie skyscraper" visible for miles across the Red River flats.
The skies darken with an impending snowstorm, and another manifest rolls by. Note the "Kodachrome" Santa Fe C30-7 operating as the second unit.
	At one time, Fargo was a three railroad town -- GN, NP, and the Milwaukee Road. With the Milwaukee abandonment and the BN merger, Fargo lost much of its variety. However, the sale of the ex-GN secondary main created the Ottertail Valley Railroad, now owned by RailAmerica. On this day, four RailAmerica units (two GP9s and two GP18s) belonging to OTVR and the Minnesota Northern, wait at Ottertail Valley Junction for their transit to Fargo Yard, there to pick up a unit coal train for the power plant in Hoot Lake.