Departing on a hot afternoon heading to Flushing-Main St, the trains are even more crowded than usual thanks to the Mets playing the Nationals...

BNSF 2802 brings a train into the yard - the train is using a caboose today, a rare occation for this part of the BNSF system...

This ratty looking SD40-2 sits on the end of the storage line...

Sitting in downtown Woodland waiting for work...

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...

Cut off the train at the end of the day and parked on the house track. The small ballast car in the background shares the track with the locomotive...

Waiting for restoration, this CNW baggage car sits outside the pole barn near the roundhouse...

The east end of one of the deadlines at Northtown on this snowy morning...

Even after hours the place is buzzing with activity with 559, coach 1096, and Soo caboose 31 in the shops. As the rains moved in it was still in the 60's on this very warm March night.

All green here - inc. BNSF 7812, one of just a handful left in the big BN logo on the long hood.

The storage area at MNNR's shops with a former NRE/BN GE and MNNR 71 plus their only SW1200 which makes up half of their EMD fleet.

Here are four units at the busy shops. An old GE pulls by a pair of wide cabs. So that accounts for three of the four locomotives in this photo. Where's the fourth? Look next to 4805, the carbody ... (more)

Former IAIS 800, now residing in New Jersey...

Working at the elevator at the end of the line, this unit worked for a time on the North Shore Scenic Railroad hauling passengers...

Amtrak cabbage car 90219 leads a southbound Hiawatha by the station - it is to be replaced in a few months by a new one north of this site...