After a long, snowy winter, it's finally beginning to feel like spring in Minnesota as the sun comes out from behind some clouds and shines on the eastbound Empire Builder departing Saint Paul.

AMTK 150, an F7B, gets a look over by BN Dale St. Shop workers in St. Paul, MN in March 1973. The locomotive was built as GN 462C in January 1953 and renumbered to BN 9754 before Amtrak acquired i... (more)

NP SD45 3617 sits on display at St. Paul Union Depot.

BN 8 was BN's Fire Prevention Instruction Car and was used throughout the railroad. It is pictured here at Dale St. Shops in St. Paul. This was previously made and used by the Great Northern.

An increasingly rare pair of GP15s lead YSP75 out of the Belt.

The Galesburg to Northtown manifest heads west under the classic signal bridge at Hoffman with a very unusual consist. It's not everyday you see a Santa Fe geep lead a train, let alone on a road t... (more)

BNSF 1766 leads a Galesburg bound manifest out of the tunnel underneath Westminster. This set of Galesburg local power also managed to lead a Galesburg-Northtown manifest the day prior.

Burlington Northern EMD SW1000 switchers Nos. 394 and 393 haul a BN transfer freight through West Hoffman past Dayton’s Bluff in St. Paul, Minnesota, in September 1984. Both locomotives were bui... (more)

Empty coal hoppers bound for Wyoming. The track in the foreground appears to be a switching lead, with fresh use almost to the end.

After getting the light from the UP dispatcher, Canadian Pacific local H37 slowly rolls through downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and heads across the Mississippi River on the Roberts Street Lift Bri... (more)

YSP35 departs East Minneapolis with a 6 pack of standard cab EMDs up front.

TCWR 2014 leads a incredibly late St. Paul turn underneath the searchlights at CP Hoffman finally arriving at Pigs Eye Yard.

A pair of BNSF GP's climb out of the trench after rolling through the Westminster Junction tunnel as they come into Saint Paul, Minnesota. The train is bound for CP's Pigs Eye Yard with a transfer... (more)

Locomotive Leasing Partners GP38-2 2238 pulls a string of autoracks along the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul. LLPX 2238 is the former Long Island Railroad 255. This train, viewed from Ha... (more)

The Friends of the 261 North Pull Express makes its short run down the tracks from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the "North Pole" set up just east of the station. In the lead is the Nort... (more)