My father is standing on the bridge carrying the north leg of the Westminster Junction wye, looking south, down on the former Northern Pacific. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern contributed... (more)

The CNW came into Westminster Junction at the east end of the wye. Here, a westbound CNW train is traveling across the north leg of the wye to continue west. These former CGW SD40s have been re-... (more)

A Union Pacific manifest freight departs Saint Paul and gets a roll by inspection from the crew of a Canadian Pacific hump yard pull-down job.

Locomotives:
UP 6788 AC44CW
UP 7311 AC4... (more)

Here my father is standing on the west side of Westminster Junction in St. Paul. E9A 9990 is in an early experimental Burlington Northern paint scheme as is passes the tower with an unusual consi... (more)

I'm imagining it was pretty cold on this clear winter day in the twin cities. Here, my father is standing on the bridge carrying the east-west track at Westminster Junction (the North end of the ... (more)

Continuing our tour of Westminster Junction in the early 1970s, this view is from the north side of the junction. In an interesting configuration of trackage, two sets of double track pass under ... (more)

This is the view south from the Lafayette Road overpass in St. Paul on a blustery winter day. A Rock Island transfer disturbs the birds as it passes northbound towards Westminster Junction with s... (more)

My father made many business trips to the Twin Cities in the early 1970s and made the most of those opportunities to photograph rail operations in the metropolitan area. One of his favorite place... (more)

The Royal Canadian: Brightening up a somewhat dreary day, CP 1401 leads the Royal Canadian into the yard track at Cottage Grove. The big brass got off the train at Humboldt Yard, and this i... (more)

The Royal Canadian: Brightening up a somewhat dreary day, CP 1401 leads the Royal Canadian through St. Paul, towards Cottage Grove. The big brass got off the train at Humboldt Yard, and thi... (more)

An ex-Lehigh Valley geep leads H15 past the Science Museum of Minnesota on the way west.

A single CP GEVO brings a mixed freight past the Bluffs in St. Paul and into the CP yard.

Locomotives:
CP 8704 ES44AC

Happy Halloween! SOO 534, EMCX 1557, and TCW 181 all converge at Hoffmann Avenue in October of 1991. Lots of orange and black are perfect for Halloween.

Stormy Night: Not quite enough time to make it into the yard, the "Soo Shakopee" job sits tied down on Soo 1 at West Hoffman, this as another Eastbound streaks past, heading for S... (more)

The eastbound Empire Builder has just passed Division Street on the morning of June 10, 2016, in a view from Dayton’s Bluff that features the Mississippi River and downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, ... (more)