Amtrak #8 has just crossed the Mississippi River and is passing the Hasting, MN depot in October of 1992.

Minnesota Sunset: With the sun beginning to dip below the horizon, one last westbound auto rack slips by on the main, heading for the inevitable darkness. A loaded oil train waits patiently... (more)

The Empire Builder speeds through Vermillion making good time from St. Paul to Red Wing.

CP Holiday Train: Stopped in Hastings putting on a show for the locals, the head end of the Holiday Train sits on the historic former MILW lift bridge that spans the Mississippi at Hastings... (more)

CSX 542 meets DME 6083 and a Loram ballast cleaner as it heads east through the Hastings rail yard.

CSX 542 leads an oil train across the Mississppi River, towards the Hastings depot.

Sitting on the old H&D tracks, CP 4414 watches over the activity in the Hastings Rail Yard. CP 8930 is waiting for the signal to continue west towards St. Paul and the MOW equipment will rest in t... (more)

With a glorious sunset filling the sky, loaded oil can 562 accelerates east after getting the signal at Blackbird. Taken while off duty, wearing full PPE.

A couple of freshly painted RCP&E SD40-2's are in charge of todays 2H19. After getting GTB's at the depot, the crew highballs at Hastings. They don't have very far to go, the train will be yarded ... (more)

A couple of freshly painted RCP&E SD40-2's are in charge of todays 2H19. The conductor is inside the depot getting BNSF GTB's so they can continue on the joint track to St. Paul The CP GP20 will b... (more)

NS 1050 crawls over the Mississippi River with a load of oil cars. The crew has to stop at the Hastings depot, which is just south of the bridge, to pick up new paperwork as it enters the CP River... (more)

On the morning before I flew back to Atlanta out of Minneapolis, I went down to Hastings, MN to try to capture some CP trains crossing the Mississippi River. The CP trains were a no-show, but I wa... (more)

BNSF 5222 and 5147 lead a westbound mixed goods train through CP's rail yard in Hastings. Meanwhile, CP 2324 has just finished assembling a train for RPCE 3423 and is waiting for its next assignme... (more)

NS 8098 passing one of Canadian Pacific's newest GP20C-ECO locomotives (this one is assigned to the Hastings Patrol).

NS and CSX power meet on the former Milwaukee Road at Hastings; both trains are running with CP crews over Canadian Pacific's River Subdivision.