The Empire Builder that originated in Seattle/Portland on Friday, June 28, leaves St. Paul just over and hour and a half late. Emergency crews arrived to meet the train at Midway station f... (more)

After traveling by the Puget Sound, through the Cascades, Glacier National Park, the Great Plains of Montana and North Dakota, plus the farming landscape of Minnesota, the Empire Builder tr... (more)

Arriving exactly when it should be departing, the Empire Builder pulls through the switches off of the BNSF Midway Subdivision at St. Anthony Junction into the Minnesota Commercial A Yard i... (more)

The Empire Builder made up all its lost time between St. Cloud and St. Paul and made an on-time departure from the St. Paul Midway Station. On this ideal summer day passengers will get som... (more)

The Trail Turn arrives back into Thief River Falls where it originated and crosses over the Red Lake River in the city' downtown. This as needed train exchanges empty open hoppers for loaded grav... (more)

Between duties leading the yearly Holiday Train, this Canadian Pacific AC44 does the heavy lifting such as this westbound empty unit oil train bound for Stoughton, Saskatchewan. Here the t... (more)

A Canadian Pacific manifest departs eastbound from "TR Falls" at 1800 after refueling. The area finally looks like summer after a long winter and prolonged spring. Here the train crosses the Red... (more)

This manifest led by #5509 slows to a stop near station sign CN Winnipeg as it holds for VIA's Canadian, train #1, for its 1145 departure from Winnipeg Union Station.

The westbound H54, or Trail Turn, blares its horn as it passes through the small community of Oklee on the Bemidji subdivision. This job originates in the Thief River Falls yard and travels down ... (more)

Two new locomotives pass through a pocket of evening sunlight by two original buildings standing adjacent to the former Soo Line. On the left is the Gamble-Robinson building, which was a wholesal... (more)

Canadian Pacific train #290 travels over the most scenic area in Thief River Falls, which includes anywhere along the Red Lake River. I would imagine that it's a nice day for the engineer to have... (more)

Lots of people were in the lounge and dining cars as the Empire Builder traveled through St. Paul adjacent to the Mississippi River. The weather was excellent, sunny and warm, making for a... (more)

The crew on board CP 2215 is disrupted as the Empire Builder pulls into the Winona station and passengers invade the platform. The Winona stop is a station stop where the crew changes allowing pa... (more)

The Mother's Day edition of the Empire Builder cruises into Columbus, Wisconsin a few minutes early with several railfan folks coming to view the train.

Maintenance Call... WSOR 4004 was taken off the point of its northbound local from Madison to Rock Springs and placed into the siding at Dane while the rest of the train idles on the mainli... (more)