UPY 733 and 653 bellow exhaust after pulling 5 loads from CHS's fertilizer terminal in St. Paul. This 1.5 mile long stretch of trackage is known as the Rock Island Industrial Lead, and much of it ... (more)

3 SD60s lead L506 over the 110 year old Arcola High Bridge. This is an extremely difficult shot to get, as this structure only hosts 2 trains a day that almost always run at night or out of the su... (more)

A pair of RCL Dash 9s lead the Union Job through Rollins Avenue as they head back to Northtown with cars from the Minnesota Commercial. This is a remote control job, despite basically being a tran... (more)

The A-B-B-B-A set of F's are ready to depart Taconite Harbor.

The Big Boy Tour Train departs St. Paul for Altoona with the UP 4014 and 3025 for power

The TCW St. Paul Turn departs CP St. Paul Yard on the return trip to Hopkins. The two CP units are destined for a unit ethanol train off of the TCW.

L576 soars over the Black River in Hatfield with a rare C44-9WL leader. This job does a turn out of Blair to Wisconsin Rapids, working industries along the way.

YSP51 departs East Minneapolis for the Belt with a quintet of EMDs for power.

YSP35 departs East Minneapolis with a 6 pack of standard cab EMDs up front.

UP 3070 pulls an empty coal train out of Xcel Energy's Allen S. King power plant. UP's entire fleet of Tier IV EMDs had been stored for several months, but a power imbalance caused by flooding was... (more)

CP H15 heads back to St. Paul as light power with an eccentric mix of locomotives. SOO 4598 is the last candy apple red SOO unit on the CP roster and has certainly seen better days. The two middle... (more)

The engineer walks away from the former SP (and fake GBW) S6, after another excursion around the museum property.

A pair of BN veterans sit in repose at the Illinois Railway Museum. 5383 hasn't ran in a couple years because of a faulty traction motor. BN-3 is fully operational and would look nice painted back... (more)

YSP51 crosses the Robert St Lift Bridge with an impressive quintet of SD40Ns for power. SD40Ns are the mainstay of UP local power around the Twin Cities, but this is the first time I have ever see... (more)

Many locomotives are stored in Northtown in this picture but luckily this isn't the case anymore. As of a couple days ago, All the SD75's were gone, reactivated and in service. Only a few older Ge... (more)