Milwaukee Road's Newport Tower stood along the heavily trafficked Milwaukee Road & Burlington Northern joint mainlines just east (south) of Pig's Eye and Dayton Bluff yards in St. Paul. The Rock I... (more)

A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)

A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Amtrak Empire Builder power sits at Harrison St., Minneapolis between assignments. AMTK 101 is former BN 9774, originally NP 6508C built in April 1949.

A pair of DMIR Tunnel Motors and an IC SD40-3 slowly ease forward as they pull the last of their train of ore cars through the loader at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. Once the ... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

BN SDP45 9858 sits alongside Dale St. Shops in St. Paul, MN, still wearing its passenger number. A close look indicates the unit has been sideswiped on the engineer side. There is some damage to t... (more)

As the sun rises in Grand Lake, Minnesota, a pair of SD60's cruise around the bend at Bear Trap Road as they head south on the Missabe Subdivision. This is Canadian National's L568 that brings fre... (more)

The Twin Cities & Western's St. Paul Turn is working the Minnesota Commercial's Midway Yard in Midway, Minnesota to interchange cars with the shortline. The trio of GP38-2's is tied on to their ou... (more)

4 motors pull out of Dilworth with 199 empty sand hoppers as the surise lights up the hoar frost.

BLE 903 leads a CN empty limestone train through the fog into Proctor Yard where it will end its run from MinnTac located north of Mountain Iron, MN. This service uses ore jennies to handle the li... (more)

CN 6255 waits for permission to leave United Taconite and head south to Proctor, MN with a taconite train headed for the Duluth ore dock.

CTRR 36 pulls a long cut of cars out of the yard at the Sappi mill (out of sight behind the trees) thus providing a rare catch of the former UP MP15 with cars on the bridge over the St. Louis Rive... (more)

Shuffling cars around for the Sappi mill.