After finishing up their Winona work, J20 is back on the move east towards La Crosse.

MILW 2021 leads a trio of GP40s on a westbound freight operating on the eastbound main past the Winona station where Amtrak will soon make a stop. The train will continue west on the eastbound tra... (more)

CP 2288 shows off its nice red color scheme while CP 9777 passes by as a DPU on an eastbound freight at Winona, MN. The big GE is typical of a majority of CP road power in terms of the image it pr... (more)

The former Milwaukee Road passenger station in Winona, MN is nicely restored and still used for Amtrak. The station is set back from the mainline and has been for decades. CPKC maintains a small y... (more)

MILW 5 leads a westbound hotshot through Winona just ahead of the Amtrak Empire Builder. It will likely stay ahead of the passenger train all the way to St. Paul Yard since Amtrak will stop at Win... (more)

DME train from west approaching Winona

AMTK 297 is in charge of Amtrak #8, the eastbound Empire Builder, as it departs Winona, MN in September of 1993. The cool grain elevator would be lost to a fire (arson) a few years later in 1997.

UP 1868 leads a short LTA41, complete with the old Mopac Caboose, Eastward. The train is on the Western banks of the Mighty Minnesota River on the CP River Sub.

Two pieces of nearly obsolete equipment, which have undoubtedly gone an unimaginable amount of miles in their lives, cross paths in Winona, MN.

Union Pacific had a group of scale test cars stored at their yard in Winona, MN in spring 2023. They included a variety of designs and predecessor initials. CNW 263633 was in the group and seemed ... (more)

Unusual scale test/monitoring cars, UP 903039 & 903037, made from tank cars, were spotted in a string of test cars parked at UP's Winona yard. I've seen a lot of test cars in my life, but these ar... (more)

After shoving in the clear at Tower CK, the LTA41 crew puts their train away in UP's Winona Yard. The rail served Malteurop elevator looms in the background. Surprisingly, the UP's island operatio... (more)

CNW Alco RS2 52 works the roads yard at Winona MN in the summer of 1974. This was a former Chicago Great western unit

A sign of things to come, a CP Bensenville, IL-Tracy, MN freight 471, led by KCS power, diverges onto the old DM&E for the trip to Tracy, where it will hand off to the RCPE.

With the way the UP is running away from small time business with the PSR mentality, I was surprised to see way out here in no man's land the UP still has a land locked job at Winona. The CP's loc... (more)