Hastily renumbered with a spray can, 1740 is now back in mainline service. Pushing 50 years old and still running fast freights out of the Twin Cities - an impressive feat that today's new units... (more)

The storage lines have shrunk dramatically recently and is down to these SD40-2 units and a few other older units...

New additions to the storage lines north of the shops...

CPR's premier steam excursion locomotive, "The Empress," is highballing eastbound to Winona, Minn., doubleheading with Milwaukee Road 261. The pretty ladies pulled 15 CP and MILW passenger cars fr... (more)

CPR's premier steam excursion locomotive, "The Empress," is highballing eastbound to Winona, Minn., doubleheading with Milwaukee Road 261. The pretty ladies pulled 15 CP and MILW passenger cars fr... (more)

CP 2816 makes her last stop of the day and draws a large crowd of young people from a local business for their first up close look at steam (offstage left).

Beautiful morning light for the portrait of a lady - CP's Empress 2816

Matching set of deadline BNSF power make s anice pattern in the sun.

A colorful combination at the north end of the yard - the yard hump power shoves a cut for sorting past a SD45-2 and a SW1200...

Minnesota Commercial Alco and GE make a reflective red pair in the MMNC yard

A couple SD40-2s work part of Northtown.

CP Hudson 2816 passes through ex-Soo Line Cardigan Junction in the early morning, coming around the curve inside where a Soo Line station stood inside the junction until 1990.

Approaching Shoreham after an excursion out to Dresser, WI.

Two SD40-2s finish shoving another cut into the departure tracks while a Z Train goes past on the Mainline with three C44-9Ws.

At 1:30 AM, CPR train 199 cools its wheels at Union Junction, held behind a BNSF train for a short time before heading into the CPR tracks at Shoreham. The lights are from the nearby State Fair.