Soo Line 559 owned and operated by the Minnesota Transportation Museum (thus lettered MNTX), heads up an excursion train at Osceola, WI. The paint scheme is unique in that the "pine tree"... (more)

GN A11, a former Great Northern business car brings up the rear of an eastbound tourist train as it leaves Osceola, WI for a round trip to Dresser and back. The train was powered by former GN SDP4... (more)

MNTX 325, a former GN/BN/BNSF SDP40 departs Osceola, WI for Dresser, but before leaving town, the crew backed up the train, then headed east "full steam ahead", picking up this mail bag ... (more)

MNTX 325, a former GN/BN/BNSF SDP40 readies for departure with one of the tourist trains operating out of the former Soo Line station at Osceola, WI. This consist includes a former NP Railway Post... (more)

The 2018 Pumpkin Express on the Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway. After a number of years using the SD9, the change was made to use the 325 (possibly at my request). The train looked excellent... (more)

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)

"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)

Great Northern SDP40 #325, once the last active passenger locomotive on BNSF's roster until 2009, sits out in the winter sun at the ex-GN Jackson Street Roundhouse. Built in 1966, this locomoti... (more)

After spending the day at St. Paul Union depot for National Train Day, Minnesota Transportation Museum locomotive 325 in Burlington Northern Railroad paint scheme rests over night at Osceola WI.

On the evening before pulling a 8 car ballast train for a photo freight shoot, Minnesota Transportation Museum locomotive 6234 dressed in Burlington Northern Railroad livery sits on the house trac... (more)

A rare 1913 GE gas-electric (later converted to straight electric and then diesel electric) owned by the Minnesota Transportation Museum was used to haul tourists on Duluth's Lake Superior & Missi... (more)

This old EMD SW1 still painted for former owner Anderson Windows who used it at their Bayport, MN facility before being donated to the Minnesota Transportation Museum who uses the little engine fo... (more)

MNTX (BN) SD9 #6234 with the "Pumpkin Express" after switching cars for the weekend.

In 2000, Andersen Windows Corporation of Bayport, Minnesota donated the smaller of its two plant switchers, the 3110, to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. Andersen Windows 3110 is a 600-horsepo... (more)

Anderson No. 3110, an ex-Wabash SW-1, retains the colors from when it worked at Anderson Windows in Bayport, MN. MNTX 3110 is outside the roundhouse today getting ready for another day of work w... (more)