Red Line Property Maintenance

About Red Line Property Maintenance

The rail line that built Minot still cuts through the city, and the neighborhoods that grew up alongside those tracks are where Red Line Property Maintenance keeps its longest-running route, plowing driveways within sight of the grain cars still rolling through at odd hours. The crew treats the tracks as a dividing line for the day's work, clearing everything on one side before crossing to the other, so no street gets skipped between passes. Driveways get plowed full width, snow set well back from the property line rather than pushed into a neighbor's yard. Sidewalks along the older, narrower blocks get shoveled by hand where a machine would clip a fence or a hedge. Ice at any driveway that dips toward a drainage ditch gets salted heavily, since that low ground holds runoff long after a thaw starts. The route closes out where it began, back along the tracks, ready for whatever the next train brings in on the wind.