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A stopped freight train atop the railway trestle at Rivers, MB is silhouetted against the stars as the aurora borealis dance in the western sky late Saturday night. A severe geomagnetic storm — the strongest the earth has seen in 20 years — caused northern lights to be seen across the northern hemisphere this past weekend, as a result of several solar flares exploding off the Sun. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)