A colorful consist with the worst engine in the lead brings an oil train out of Northtown.
At East Minneapolis yard awaiting make up of eastbound Roadrailers
After shoving a cut of cars over the hump a trio of SD40's roll past the tower to head for the receiving yard for another cut of inbound cars to be humped.
Yard power and hump power sit's outside the tower as they await their call to duty, downtown Minneapolis looms in the background.
An empty Superior Coal train with a faded SD70MAC leading, slows down for the crew change in Northtown. A Cascade Green SD40-2 can be seen to the left which is power for the BN-CP transfer.
A nice looking H3 SD40-2 works a pullout job in Northtown. Two other SD40-2's can be seen in this shot...
A BNSF grain train skirts downtown Minneapolis, MN.
Many locomotives are stored in Northtown in this picture but luckily this isn't the case anymore. As of a couple days ago, All the SD75's were gone, reactivated and in service. Only a few older Ge... (more)
A former Burlington Northern SD40-2, still proudly displaying Cascade Green, shoves a cut of cars into the yard while on a Pullout Job.
Legends never die... they just wait to be reborn. Taken with permission of Friends of 261 staff.
BNSF 4852 heads west out of Minneapolis on the Wayzata Sub. Follow the tracks back and you can see Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins.
One of the newer photo locations in the Twin Cities thanks to a still being built overpass over the tracks.
The first self-propelled run on the Central Corridor aka the METRO Green Line. Here it is passing under 19th Ave S at West Bank Station (U of M).
The first train on the Central Corridor aka the METRO Green Line to move under its own power, here seen at Washington Ave and Oak Street on the East Bank of the U of M.
NS 1073 Penn Central heritage unit leads an oil empty after a crew change at BNSF's Northtown Yard.
