8 Eastbounds stacked in Staples. The Intermodal to the left will soon break into 2 pieces and move the front half onto the track just to the right of where it's other half sits. BNSF 8534 (SD70ACe... (more)

Great Northern Alco S2 #11 sits at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI on a nice sunny afternoon.

Milwaukee Road 261 and it's Tender gleam in the setting sun as it leads the Fall Colors Excursion from Duluth to Minneapolis.

Milwaukee Road 261 sits at St. Paul Union Depot for Union Depot Train Days (90th Anniversary of SPUD). She was just getting ready to pull ahead and off Track 1 to allow Amtrak's Westbound Empire B... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 leading the Fall Colors Special South passes BNSF 1869 on the Hinckley Local.

BNSF 1428 and BNSF 1414 lead today's M-NTWDIL train past the Staples Amtrak Depot on their way West to Dilworth, MN.

MNNR 35 leads the Minnesota Commercial Bayport Job past Hazel Park Jct. (MP 6.5) on the UP Altoona Sub.

Milwaukee Road 261 and the Fall Colors Excursion consist gleam in the setting sun in Northern Minnesota.

BNSF 8214 West meets BNSF 9203 East at Staples. Meets are common here, but this was one of my favorites.

Amtrak 406 (NPCU) leads Amtrak's Exhibit Train West on the CP Merriam Park Sub in Minneapolis, MN on a sunny afternoon.

CITX 119 and INRD 9025 sit by SPUD while waiting to get into Roseport on the UP.

A couple Cascade Green SD60Ms lead a manifest West through Maiden Rock on their way to the Twin Cities.

CP's St. Paul Shops are always packed with a variety of locomotives. Today sitting at the maintenance racks is a trio of NS units (NS 8405, NS 7335, NS 6916) and some familiar CPs. The trio of NS ... (more)

An older SD70ACe leads a newer SD70ACe and company past St. Paul Union Depot and on down to Western Avenue yard before continuing it's snowy journey to Valley Park, MN.

2 sets of 3 MRL SD70ACes are the helpers based in Livingston, MT on the MRL 1st Subdivision. One set is pushing a BNSF Manifest Westbound, the other is waiting for a Westbound BNSF Grain to push o... (more)