The Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern's M MNAU pulls to a stop as it approaches Tracy, Minnesota at the ESS Tracy switch where they will meet the tied down M AUMN. The conductor is riding up to throw ... (more)

A former Soo Line steam locomotive calls this small museum in Tracy, MN home. It's been modified with an enormous balloon stack, renumbered and lettered for the Chicago & North Western, and had it... (more)

RCPE 3427 has crossed the property line, and is now on Canadian Pacific trackage.

Tracy is the terminus for CP's operation on the Tracy Sub and some CP lite power will tie onto what will become train #470 while a RCPE westbound holds the main.

The Aurora-Tracy turn has finished its interchange work at Tracy and heads west back to Aurora SD.

A westbound RCPE train awaits a crew to depart while most of the yard tracks are empty.

With a former UP snoot nose SD40-2 on the point, the RCPE's M AUMN train to Mankato holds the main in Tracy, Minnesota just east of the split between RCPE and CP trackage. This train is waiting fo... (more)

Tracy, MN marks the western end of Canadian Pacific's ownership of the former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern line across southern Minnesota and into South Dakota. From Tracy west, the railroad belong... (more)

Just emerging from an intrusive cloud shadow, seven SD40-2s throttle up as they accelerate out of Tracy with a westbound train back in May 2020. During this phase of the early pandemic, with traff... (more)

A low angle view of an SD40-2 as a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train sits, tied down and waiting for a new crew on the east side of Tracy, MN.

The Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern operated a handful of LTEX tunnel motors for a while in 2021, including the 9282 still wearing the paint scheme of its original owner, Southern Pacific. The venera... (more)

Exhaust pours out of a quartet of Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern SD40-2s as they accelerate out of Tracy, MN with a westbound train.

After combining both the daily train from Tracy with the every other day train from Mankato, seven SD40-2's get underway with a westbound train for Aurora and Huron, SD.

Eastbound Canadian Pacific train 470 waits for a new crew on the east side of Tracy, MN with a Norfolk Southern locomotive on the point. Taken at a public grade crossing.

With the train now on their own trackage, MNAU departs Tracy in some beautiful light, with 3465 smoking up a storm. Seems like its trying to imitate the ALCOs that once dominated this line 40 year... (more)