OTVR 181 brings a transfer freight past Hoffmann Avenue in October of 1991.

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)

Last light at Division Street finds an empty Alma coal train preparing to climb the hill with a nice set of all EMD power.

Night photo shoot at the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Roundhouse in conjunction with the St Paul Union Depot's Train Day. Lighting by Steve Smedley

CP H15 heads back to St. Paul as light power with an eccentric mix of locomotives. SOO 4598 is the last candy apple red SOO unit on the CP roster and has certainly seen better days. The two middle... (more)

BN 7854 passes thru the bluffs at Hoffmann Ave in St. Paul, MN in October of 1991. A CNW coal train, led by SD18 6627, waits for it's turn to proceed.

A CP yard job takes headroom on the elevated mainline through downtown Saint Paul with a pair of SD40 model locomotives.

Locomotives:
CP 5105 SD40-3
CP 6000 SD40-2

Hoffman Ave. is a busy place in August 1991 with a pair of CNW freight transfers waiting to make their moves out to joint trackage with BN and SOO along Dayton Bluff in St. Paul. The power shows o... (more)

Matched SD-60s head up Short Line Hill

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)

Thanks to JFStrauss for all the information on my father's photo of BN No. 7 at Westminster Junction. On that same day, my father also photographed the eastbound morning Zephyr, BN No. 8 from the... (more)

A pair of CP GP's lead a local along the Mississippi and into CP's Saint Paul yard.

Locomotives:
CP 2242 GP20C-ECO
CP 4599 GP39-2