The TCW job to the UP passing by the skyline of Minneapolis-St. Paul. On the right side is the Amtrak Borealis train to Chicago. They were beginning their shove into the station for boarding.

Right behind J42 came the Twin Cities and Western to interchange at Humboldt Yard. This was my first time catching them at Camden ever since they started to go this way, which began around a year ... (more)

After securing permission from the owner who was on site, I climbed the stairs to the top of the grain bins in downtown Belview, MN to get a great view of an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train ... (more)

After picking up some empty cars from the new fertilizer facility on the west side of town, a Twin Cities & Western train is headed back east on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway at Echo, ... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train trundles westbound along the Minnesota Prairie Line just east of Echo, MN.

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train approaches the Minnesota State Highway 23 overpass east of Granite Falls, MN. They'll stop just ahead to deliver their entire train of empty tank cars and d... (more)

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train hustles through the small town of Sacred Heart, MN on the former Milwaukee Road "Pacific Extension" mainline.

An eastbound Twin Cities & Western train operating over the Minnesota Prairie Line crosses the new (as of 2022) Crow Creek bridge as it meanders through the Minnesota River valley between North Re... (more)

A feed truck driver tries to talk on his cell phone as a westbound Twin Cities & Western train disturbs the relative calm of the small town of Plato, MN on the former Milwaukee Road west of Minnea... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train picks up some cars from the elevator in Delhi (that's dell-hi, not dell-ee), MN as the sun sets on a blustery evening. The jointed rail dates to the early part of th... (more)

An eastbound train behind both of Twin Cities & Western's former Kennecott Copper GP39-2s, plus RRVW 2053, crosses the Sulphur Lake trestle near Morton, MN.

TCWR 2010 meets the Amtrak Borealis in downtown Saint Paul at Union Station.

A Twin Cities & Western train is reflected in some puddles left by melted snow as it works on the west side of Renville, MN.

On a nice fall afternoon, TCW 2014, 2022, 2021 and 2015 are headed west through St. Louis Park, on the way home to Hopkins with interchange from the CPKC.

Done with its work in the Twin Cities, the TC&W Hopkins road freight is slowly rolling west through St. Louis Park, as the Minneapolis skyline stands tall.