NS "Central Railroad of New Jersey" heritage locomotive makes its first appearance in Minnesota running DPU style. I believe this is the 5th NS heritage unit to makes its way to the great state o... (more)

Late afternoon sun catches GN 556, an SD7 and GN 166, an SW7 at the Minneapolis engine shed and roundhouse about 90 days before the BN merger.

BNSF rotary plow 972551 is being towed back to Northtown. It just cleared the 10 MPH speed restriction coming off the west leg of the wye at Van Buren Street and throttles up on the main line tow... (more)

The Illinois Terminal heritage unit slows for a crew change at Northtown while an outbound Northstar commuter train speeds out of town.

Humboldt memories
A Soo Line freight departs Humboldt Yard in the Twin Cities north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. A Milwaukee Road “Hiawatha” SD40-2 No. 159 leads t... (more)

BN 6005 and an NW2, both of GN heritage idle the evening away in this midnight shot taken at the former Great Northern Railway Harrison St. roundhouse. During this time BN was upgrading Northtown ... (more)

For a road that had such an allegiance to EMD the Soo had its share of roster curiosities especially early in the diesel era. A handful of FM's generally worked the Twin Cities and lasted long eno... (more)

The Soo seemed to have a lot of work going on at Shoreham for EMD at the time of this photo. This Ex CR/PC GP38-2 was in for work at the time and had a big paper in the engineers window stating it... (more)

Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.

GN 314A and a B unit bask in the sun on a frigid January day between runs at Minneapolis. These units were originally ordered for iron ore road service on the Mesabi Division out of Superior, Wis.... (more)

NP 6013D leads three other first generation units on ore loads at Minneapolis. This slide has been in my collection for year and was either bought or traded for. No photographer listed on slide.

Interesting former GN (ex-Army) plow enjoys the summer weather before winter hits. I believe this plow was sold to the RRV&W.

A westbound train with a mixed bag of EMD power rolls under the search light signals at East University nearly two decades ago.

After the Soo/Milwaukee Road combination the Soo found itself with a much larger fleet of power...some of which it had no interest in retaining. This photo at Shoreham pretty much says it all as a... (more)

Late afternoon departure out of Shoreham for #608, hauling Bakken crude from North Dakota.