Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SW1200 No. 34 rests at Soo Line’s Shoreham Yard locomotive facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. The switcher was built in May 1965 and is... (more)

An unusual sighting for BNSF crossing this bridge as the former Soo Line track is now owned by CP.

A pair of former CB&Q NW2s rolls a very short transfer job east on the former Great Northern mainline on the north side of the GN station. Most likely its bringing a car from Lyndale yard back to ... (more)

A colorful line up of power next to the former GN run-through locomotive servicing shed at Harrison St. in Minneapolis includes a former GN GP35, one of the first BN delivered GP38s, and a sky blu... (more)

Former NP U33C no. BN 5721 catches some sunlight at Minneapolis in the company of a former GN SW1500. Both units were among the newest power acquired by the predecessors to BN. Note the water towe... (more)

BN 9850, a former GN SDP40, finds new work for new owner BN at Minneapolis on a drizzly spring day in 1973. Snatched from passenger service with the advent of Amtrak in 1971, the SDP40s served in ... (more)

BN 746 a former NP F7A joins an X-GN F7B in the weeds next to a section of Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis. The pair are waiting their turn for servicing here. The healthy weed crop appears... (more)

BN 9794, a former NP FP7A, makes a move with an Amtrak F7B and another FP7 at Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis, MN. The power was in use in the summer of 1973 by Amtrak to protect Empire Bui... (more)

Former GN NW2s relax outside of Harrison St. round house in Minneapolis, MN 15 months into the BN merger. Sporting GN's big sky blue color scheme, these yard goats still had a number of years of w... (more)

Former GN passenger GP9, BN 1832 now handles a different type of passenger assignment at Northtown Yard, Minneapolis. The unit was captured switching some work equipment around on the north side o... (more)

Here BN SD9 6119 gets some servicing work done alongside BN 139, an NW2 at Harrison St. roundhouse. That NW2 is nearly 20 years older than the 1958 era SD9. In 1971, both still had many miles to w... (more)

We all have our favorite loco and railroad. Mine would have to be GN 592, now BN 6119. I got acquainted with it in 1963 in Mora, MN where the crew of the Brook Park Turn stopped to give a 12 yr. o... (more)

Renumbered, but not repainted, a small group of former GN and Burlington power enjoy some summer sunlight at the former Great Northern roundhouse facilities. As the railroad completed revising Nor... (more)

The more things change, sometimes the more they stay the same. The scene here is the Burlington Northern Empire Builder waiting impatiently to get on its overnight run from Minneapolis to Fargo an... (more)

Former New York Central SW1 working at 35th street on a snowy day in the Twin Cities.