BN 6118 stopped briefly at the Mora, MN depot and a crew member is about to climb back on board. The job was the Brook Park turn out of St. Cloud, MN and the crew had left their train in Brook Par... (more)

BN 6117, former GN 590, and GN caboose X303 park on the main track just east of Hwy. 65 at Mora, MN. The crew of the Brook Park turn, which originated in St. Cloud, MN, are having their traditiona... (more)

The former Great Northern depot at Mora, MN shows off its Big Sky Blue trim two years after the BN merger. It eventually got BN green trim, and still stands today although the track is now gone. T... (more)

Climbing into Monero Canyon on the now gone Chama to Durango portion of the railroad. Note the head end brakeman standing outside the dog house on #483.

Roger wrote, "Crew eating oyster stew in caboose." The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Seldom visited, seldom photographed, Rio Grande’s narrow gauge west of Chama had a distinctly southwestern flavor of mesas and buttes. Here, on October 25, 1963, five years before abandonment, K... (more)

ex MILW 81C

A faded Dakota Rail F7 (ex-Milwaukee Road) rests at the end of a former BN branch line (now abandoned).

CNW 217 leads a train on the former Minneapolis and Saint Louis near Waseca, Minnesota. #217 was originally CGW #116A, one of two FP7s owned by the CGW. It is still in existence today in Oelwein... (more)

Right near sunset on a hazy late August evening CNW 208,313,318,6612 head west with 6 cars of ballast and a caboose.

Eastbound tonnage pops out of the tunnel at Winston into the glorious October colors. From the Nelson notepad: #107C is the trailing unit, #192 is the symbol, 6 units, 138 cars.

Abandoned in December 1984, rails still lead up to the tunnel in the spring on 1990. They have long since been removed.

The Minnetonka Zephyr Dinner Train. Lighting Steve Glischinski

CNW 205 leads an A-A-A-A F-unit consist (205-235-213-269) with two CNW F-units still painted in the CGW red scheme. This southbound train originated at South St. Paul and is approaching Randolph w... (more)

It's the first warm day of spring as train 161 bangs across the diamond with C&NW's Alco line and past the CGW depot at Dodge Center en route from St. Paul to Oelwein, Iowa. F3A 202 was formerly C... (more)