The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Great Northern 325" on a photo passenger special. The GN 325 was repainted earlier in 2023 at Relco in Albia, IA thanks to a generous anonymous d... (more)

Ex-MILW,SOO, GMTX Smurf leads the St. Cloud roadswitch into Becker with coal loads and boxcar empties for the industries in town.

Minnesota Transportation Museum's former Great Northern SDP40 #325 sits on the turntable of the Jackson Street Roundhouse. The locomotive was temporarily patched as its old self, BN 6399. The unit... (more)

BNSF's "Northstar Holiday Train" arrives the Big Lake transit platform for boarding passengers going on a free ride to St. Paul Union Depot.

The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Great Northern 325" on a photo passenger special. The GN 325 was repainted earlier in 2023 at Relco in Albia, IA thanks to a generous anonymous d... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 performs a photo run-by as part of the Gourment Express fall excursions. These PTC fundraiser trips were hosted on the former Milwaukee Road, now TC&W.

The MILW 261 on the old Milwaukee Road for a fall excursion, looking every bit of classic Hiawatha as the train passes through the town of Cologne.

The NLR "greenies" perform switching at the LPG facility in Rockville. The old geeps are running on borrowed time now as new power is rumored to arrive in the winter, putting these class... (more)

A rerouted Superior-Northtown Manifest sports an all green powerset of two SD60Ms and an SD40-2. As is evident, all units were pulling hard.

Union Pacific's "Spirit of the UP"/"Support our Troops" tribute locomotive made an appearance on display at "Union Depot Train Days" in 2021. The locomotive corres... (more)

I was listening to the scanner wondering if anything cool was running on the Staples Sub. I soon got an answer when I heard "BNSF 1940 East approach medium at Darling". I then proceeded out to ... (more)

With one of the P42s out of service with a blown turbo, Amtrak called upon the aid of BNSF, but this time, unlike the typical GE helper, an EMD SD70ACe was put in passenger service.

Amtrak returned to "Train Days" for the first time in several years displaying newly released heritage locomotive 161 along with a few passenger cars. AMTK 161 is the second of Amtrak... (more)

An unusual power set leads an intermodal freight from Northtown to Staples to switch out power for the rest of the trip west. Included in this powerset is a BN 3-window ('triclops') SD60M leadi... (more)

"Soo Line" 559 poses at Union Depot while on display for the 2018 edition of 'Train Day.' The ex-Rock Island GP7 has been out of service for four years undergoing engine rehabilitation a... (more)