Frack sand hoppers in tow on the Skally Line. The St. Scroix Valley operates on one of three short sections of the Northern Pacific's Skally Line. The other two: one small stretch in Minneapolis; ... (more)

Two SD45s leading sand cars were the focus of the chase.

SCXY 1363 with a short train at Harris, MN.

SCXY 1325 breathes a sigh of relief as the crew has just taken off and it now has some time to relax.

SCXY 1363, ILSX 1345, SCXY 1352 and ILSX 180 take the weekend off. The ILSX locomotives left the line the next year, after the arrival of some larger horsepower from two SD40-2Ms.

South of Rush City at Harris, finds both SD45 along with a switcher lettered for ISLX.

It's a nice spring Friday morning and the SCXY crew is done for the day already, having brought their train up to Hinckley for interchange with the BNSF. They sometimes will park their power on t... (more)

St. Croix Valley's 1326, sitting quietly, rather in the middle of nowhere, on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

On rails used by the former Northern Pacific, displaying NP colors with monad and ""Radio Equipped", one of St. Croix Valley's SD40M-2s passes the depot southbound with a load of em... (more)

A pair of Geeps rest on a Saturday morning.

A lone St. Croix Valley GP9 and an empty HCl (hydrochloric acid) tanker sit on the Harris spur for the weekend.

St Croix Valley's pair of SD45 rebuilds were southbound near Harris heading for a sand loading facility just south of town where they will pick up twenty loads to take north for interchange with B... (more)

St. Croix Valley's two SD40M-2s in SD45 bodies are dressed up to represent Northern Pacific SD45s for a special photo shoot. The line that St. Croix operates over is part of the former NP mainline... (more)