MILW 261, GN 192 and MILW 32A leave St. Paul after a two day visit for train days at Union Depot.

Early in the morning, 215 and 403 are paired up and ready for switch duty. If you ignore the modern cars, and the CN sign on the trailer, it sure looks like this could be from the Missabe era.

Northtown-Kick heads under the signal bridge at Hoffman as the sun comes out for a bit at the end of this mostly gloomy afternoon and evening. A pair of ACes were on the head end, and a dash 9 at ... (more)

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. Alongsid... (more)

Empty ballast train heads east towards La Crosse, WI.

A trio of Canadian National Dash 8's lead loaded taconite train U789 as it rolls along the shores of Highland Lake in Highland, Minnesota. With a load of pellets from Minntac, the train is heading... (more)

A couple autumns ago, BNSF's Lincoln to Northtown manifest crosses Washington Creek in Dassel, trailing 3rd is a GP7, NPR 1752.

After meeting their 3rd eastbound of the day, this ballast train departs Paynesville siding, putting on quite a smoke show. Ballast would be dumped later that night at Murray.

A loaded ballast train heads west on the Paynesville Sub at MP 39, with a KCS MAC leading the way. They would meet a few eastbounds on their journey west.

Ballast empties swing into Renville on the old Milwaukee mainline.

After pausing to pick up a lengthy string of cars from the siding here, a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train snakes out of Cobden, MN in some of the last light of the day. The curves her... (more)

Back in March, when there was still plenty of snow on the ground, a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train drops down the undulating track just east of Revere, MN.

CPKC 261 rolls north towards LaCrescent, MN.

CPKC 261 rolls north along the Mississippi River.

CPKC Train 254 nears River Junction Yard where it will do work before heading east across the Mississippi River to La Crosse, WI.