Two Soo Line GP38-2's lead the TRF - Glenwood wayfreight through Brooks, Minnesota 24 miles south of Thief River Falls, completing a classic Soo Line scene along the Detroit Lakes sub. originally ... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder finally reaches the Twin Cities station in St. Paul after a couple days of fiasco in the form of locomotive problems and weather out west. Apparently, the BNSF unit was on... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder crosses over onto the BNSF St. Paul subdivision, taking the train along the Mississippi River in the suburb Cottage Grove, where it will regain CP trackage at St. Croix to ... (more)

Union Pacific sends down an empty unit coal train from the South Saint Paul office on the spine line through Q JCT, the junction between the mainline and an local switching branch.

Sunrise Empire Builder: Perfectly on time, the eastbound Empire Builder comes through downtown St. Paul while meeting the rising sun along the Mississippi River.

After two hours of inactivity, Camden Bridge sees more action with a westbound manifest. University was the culprit for the inactivity: one Eastbound BNSF manifest, CP 290, CN with the transfer j... (more)

When it rains it pours...simultaneously three separate BNSF movements head southward in the Northtown yard: two yard jobs and one manifest, while a west-bound Canadian Pacific train #291 takes the... (more)

CN 2129 takes the east leg of the Foley Wye, note the Foley exhaust stack, during the Sunday, January 29th edition of the CN transfer. This section of the wye is the meeting place of Canadian Pac... (more)

This Canadian Pacific eastbound train ends its run on the Paynesville subdivision rounding the west leg of the Foley wye past the Shoreham yard. It will continue east by joining the BNSF St. Paul... (more)

The Minnesota Commercial completes another weekly sand train from the MNNR Yard A to the BNSF Daytons Bluff Yard having just uncoupled from the gondolas.

The Twin Cities & Western St. Paul Turn takes its first step towards heading west from completing its work in St. Paul by rounding the curve past Fordson Junction. This train would get its pictur... (more)

The Independent Locomotive Service Holt shop scene includes works in progress and current ILSX units. First in line is former BNSF/HLLX 6964 which was on the Minnesota Northern the previous week,... (more)

Eastbound CP 290 passes the Newfolden Co-Op elevator doing the track speed of 40 mph to its first crew change south of the Canadian border. As crazy as it seems I met the conductor of this train,... (more)

The new Minnesota Northern schedule allows for the power to lay over in either Thief River Falls or Roseau. In total, four locomotives are calling the former GN/BN wye their new resting place, an... (more)

Still with Iowa Interstate reporting marks, #403 is owned by Independent Locomotive Service along with the green GP behind it (ILSX 1395). Canadian Pacific has plans to add another yard track in ... (more)