The northbound Northstar 5:27pm departure from Target Field station travels through the Van Buren St. station sign & signals past the Northrup King building in northeast Minneapolis.

The northbound Northstar 4:27pm departure from Target Field station travels under the Central Ave./Broadway Ave. overpass with the 'Friend of MILW 261' shop (ex-GN) in the background.

A northbound Northstar train headed by the token Utah Transit Authority locomotive heads under the Central Ave./Broadway Ave. overpass. This day...June 7th...turned out to be 102 degrees only made... (more)

CP 8846 and its train in tow sit under dramatic partly cloudy skies. Trains on the Noyes/Detroit Lakes Subdivisions have increased due to flooding in North Dakota.

During a day of sporadic rain storms, a rainbow popped up east of Thief River Falls providing a nice backdrop for the resident switching power for the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator, now comp... (more)

The Empire Builder cruises into Portage, Wisconsin, about an hour late of it scheduled stop at 5:34 PM. The station and platform in Portage is more or less a glorified bus stop, which make... (more)

After fetching Strata Corporation hoppers at Nora St. from the Canadian Pacific, the NPR 5556 leads the turn across the bridge over the Red Lake River.

Station sign Thief River Falls...pretty anti-climactic...two GP40's sit in the yard as local power on a quiet Easter 2011 weekend. Along the Canadian Pacific right-of-way are two of the city's gr... (more)

After being freshly refueled, two bright red Soo Line SD60's face north over the Easter holiday weekend with a short set of cars in tow.

This locomotive has had quite the career in the last year, making appearances in Eveleth, MN working at Laurentian Aggregates and in Superior, WI for Murphy Oil. Now, in April it is only a few mi... (more)

The plume of black smoke indicates the acceleration point of the Northstar commuter trains after taking the curve at Harrison St. MNRX 503 takes the 4:57pm departing train from Target Field throug... (more)

The token Utah Transit Authority locomotive takes a commuter train through northeast Minneapolis at the Van Buren St. station sign.

On a typical Tuesday rush hour in the Twin Cities, this Northstar train shuffles commuters from the new Twins ballpark station, Target Field, to the northern suburbs terminating at Big Lake, Minne... (more)

The Empire Builder sits under the platform lights minutes before gearing up to head westbound, leaving its station stop in St. Paul.

One of the weekend Northstar trains starts to pick up speed after clearing the signals at Van Buren St., passing the Northrup King Building in the process in northeast Minneapolis.