The first group of GP20C-ECOs assigned to St. Paul Yard have arrived and are being set up for service. No. 2213 heads up a string of units on track 7 at the St. Paul Roundhouse on this sunny Janu... (more)

Two recently repainted ex-Soo GP38-2s hustle the River Sub way freight, train H19, through downtown Red Wing, Minnesota on the former Milwaukee Road.

UP 618 steams upgrade in Provo Canyon with the first steam run of the summer 1996 season.

USAF 1687 creeps out of the 3 stall wooden roundhouse at Prairie Village, which houses three steam locomotives and a pair of industrial diesels.

BHC 63 rolls downgrade through Kennedyville on its way towards Keystone, South Dakota. Since 2007, the first trip of the day is normally pulled by this ex-C&O GP9.

When 103C was new it headed up the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha between the Twin Cities and Chicago. When it was retired it went to "Bucksnort Junction," a railroad-themed diner at Tea, South Dakota... (more)

Iowa, Chicago & Eastern 6100 (ex- BN 6322) heads through Wall with an early morning train. This DM&E line - lightly used - is rumored to be up for abandonment or sale under current Canadian Pacif... (more)

CITX SD40-2 3157 (ex-UP) leads a dog's breakfast of of leased units into the DM&E siding at Wall, where they'll sit for the next 24 hours. With big changes being made at Canadian Pacific this li... (more)

After numerous delays due to the storm, the crew aboard CP 8758 is rolling at restricted speed through the Paynesville siding. Destination: Glenwood (and a nice, warm bed)

A trio of BNSF units are heading upgrade past Medary on their way to the Columbia Power Plant in Portage, Wisconsin. Since this photo was taken in 2011, most coal trains bound for Columbia are us... (more)

On the last Saturday of 2012, a BNSF Z train rolls onto the bridge at Prescott, Wisconsin bound for LaCrosse.

A relatively clean BNSF Dash 9 heads up a grain train rolling downgrade through Saint Paul Park.

The $243M restoration of St. Paul's Union Depot has been completed and the concourse is open to the public for the first time since the late 1970s. Note the skylights, blacked out during WWII, tha... (more)

A lazy winter afternoon at "The Belt" finds a crew working on the east end, and GMTX 2620 (ex-Penn Central GP38) ready to head out out onto the BNSF. Note the row of stored leased units and CP/So... (more)

The California Zephyr scoots out of Burlington after a short station stop.