Hauling commuters out of downtown Minneapolis on a Friday afternoon is what Northstar is all about. Here the 501 has just passed Van Buren on the outskirts of downtown Minneapolis beginning its tr... (more)

A lengthy stack train creeps along the BNSF Midway Sub at the equivalent to walking speed on a hot, humid, hazy Saturday morning. The Minneapolis skyline is barely visible in background due to th... (more)

A Hiawatha light rail train speeds past the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, at the time the home to both the NFL Vikings and MLB Twins (the Twins were in their last season in the dome). The dome is ... (more)

On the left, TCRT PCC 322. TCRT built most of its own streetcars in its own shops (31st Street in Minneapolis from 1898 through 1907 and Snelling in Saint Paul from 1907 through the late 1920s) t... (more)

Twin Cities Lines PCC 322 runs through the thick tree canopy and under the William Berry Bridge along the shores of Lake Harriet near downtown Minneapolis, MN. TCRT No. 322 was a Presidents' Conf... (more)

Fresh wheels line up nicely as an oddball engine waits its call to duty...

The Monticello Local is returning to Northtown as it passes the grain elevator and bins at University Avenue that are in the process of being razed.

Multi colored lash up of 7 crossing the Mississippi at Camden place

Built in 1972 and still going strong.

Two BN relics including a GP39-2 and a shoving platform still wearing cascade green, sit awaiting their next assignment at Northtown.

Soo Line EMD SW9 No. 2114 sits beneath the towering twin water tanks at Soo’s Shoreham Yard roundhouse on November 18, 1984.

A 3-unit Great Northern Railway F7#308 A-B-A are leaving Minneapolis with a westbound manifest as they meet a Burlington Route (CB&Q) freight in Chinese Red powered by EMD's second generation d... (more)

A pair of newly aquired Siemens S70 dubbed Avanto light rail trains float above the intersection of Minnesota highways 55 and 62 officially within the Unorganized Territory of Fort Snelling... (more)

A storm dropped wet, heavy snow on the Twin Cities a few days ago, disrupting the usual flow of rail traffic. The bright side; a former Indiana Railroad nee SOO SD60 sits at Northtown.