Northstar crosses over the Mississippi River, while kayakers pass enjoy a leisurely trip underneath the bridge.

BNSF Northtown Yard: Waiting for a light to depart, a Eastbound BNSF manifest has a nice 5 unit lash-up, and now with a new crew, is ready to blast off. In the background is Northtown Yard,... (more)

After making it's last passenger pick up, Milwaukee 261 highballs Minneapolis, westward on the Fall Colors Special. The train is crossing the bridge that takes the Wayzata Sub across Boom Island i... (more)

On a crisp fall morning, 490 eases across Lyndale Ave at about 5 mph after getting the light at Humboldt East. They've just made their pickup at Humboldt yard, and will take the train down the BN ... (more)

My first and only visit to Milwaukee Road Territory occurred after the merger with the SOO. There still were some unpatched Milwaukee locomotives around, including this string of SD10’s. Thankfu... (more)

EMD's latest and greatest demo the SD70ace-T4 at the RSI show in BNSF's northtown yard. Here is a close up of the new nose/cab that EMD designed for the tier 4. The cab is now angled out and has ... (more)

EMD's latest and greatest demo the SD70ace-T4 at the RSI show in BNSF's northtown yard. Taken before the crowds came storming in.

A Midway Yard Job drill steamship boxes in the ex-GN Yard at St. Anthony.

The St Paul Turn comes off the BNSF Midway Sub into Commercial Yard.

A former BN GP39-2 and a heavily graffitied shoving platform work the Grove Yard with a few ex SOU boxcars in tow. In the foreground are a few of the many SD75's (and C44-9W's) that make up the st... (more)

An empty Northtown save for the SD60s awaiting their destinations. A number of the BNSF and EMDX SD60s were sold off by the BNSF.

CP's hot Vancouver to Chicago intermodal crosses the mighty Mississippi with a ratty but functional GE leading the way.

UP train YSPMP 10 pulls out of East Minneapolis Yard headed back to St Paul with a nice looking leaser on point. BNSF crews are hard at work double tracking the Midway Sub west of here.

On a hot summer morning, the conductor on H26 lines the 7 unit lashup down the lead at Humbolt. They will be taking 115 cars down the hill to St. Paul, then they'll take light power to the Koch re... (more)