Train 497 gets ready to depart Humboldt Yard at 4 AM, following the first snows of the season.

Hiawatha Street engine facility in South Minneapolis hosted a number of stored units in 1980 after the abandonment of the Pacific Extension earlier that year. Now the Minneapolis light rail shops... (more)

A matched set of Soo motors take the day off on the edge of CP's Humboldt Yard.

A classic engine with a classic backdrop. While its not a BN SD9 anymore, without the SOO geep back there and the MNTX on the nose, this could be from 30 years ago. The Osceola trainsets are being... (more)

BNSF SD40-2"s 8006, 6847, 8055 power this empty grain train west. Note all the stored ATSF SD45 and SD45-2's in the backround.

A surprise from the Department of Defense brings up the rear of this BNSF mixed freight as it enters the Northtown Yard.

A great lashup of all Soo EMD's pulls this transfer out of BNSF's Northtown Yard.

A couple of BNSF crew members shuffle their RC unit around in BNSF's Northtown Yard.

This CN train sits parked just outside of BNSF's Northtown Yard.

A pair of intermodals meet in BNSF's Northtown Yard.

104 was built in 1941 and later became BN 590.

The second switcher is 9401A. Both of these switchers were built in 1949 as TR2s. The cows with cabs were numbered with an A. The cabless calf's number ended in B. They were rebuilt to standard N... (more)

A sight which will sadly never be seen again, as earlier this summer the Commercial sold their CF7 and cut their EMD roster in half (they still have a SW1200, although I have never seen it in use)... (more)

After spending a long time in storage, #83 returns to the rails.

The STP Turn passes the defunct Bunge Elevator on its Eastward journey. The elevator buildings still remaining will soon be remodeled into apartments.