EB grain passing by the familiar cliffs with some classic power. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A Twin Cities & Western freight passes through downtown St. Paul, MN on its way to CPKC's Pigs Eye Yard on the south side of the city. Today's train consists of four Geeps, the third of which wear... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western freight arrives in downtown St. Paul, MN - today with a quartet of Geeps. The train is making its way eastward towards Union Depot, which it will pass to the south as it ma... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls out of St. Paul, MN after completing its scheduled stop at St. Paul Union Depot downtown and is see here making its way down the Mississippi River as it begins the fi... (more)

BNSF 6688 (ES44C4) looks great in the early morning sunlight as it rolls out of St. Paul, MN with an eastbound intermodal for Chicago, seen here from the bluff at Indian Mounds Regional Park.

Leaning into a curve, this train is near its destination.

Just past the Minnesota Commercial yard, it is 10 minutes away from Union Depot.

Canadian Pacific Railway 1433 is an MP15AC built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in December 1978 as Milwaukee Road 497. When the MILW was bought by the Soo Line after it went bankrupt,... (more)

Ambling through the yard at sunset.

CP 2816-1401-4107 lead 40B out of St. Paul Yard on the Red Rock Industrial Lead.

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

A pair of tattered former Santa Fe B40-8Ws lead the BN-CP transfer back to Northtown with 18 auto racks from the Bluff.

A familiar "fish in a barrel", this unit sat by the street for years and was shot by everybody but I thought the sun was particularly good on this date so here it is. I made up a report... (more)

BNSF 8321 leads a track evaluation train underneath Dayton's Bluff in Saint Paul, Minnesota while overtaking a tied-down manifest.

A sextet of geeps lead the TC&W's St. Paul turn back to Hopkins after interchanging with the UP in South St. Paul. This job typically rates 3-4 locomotives, but they brought over 100 cars down to ... (more)