A small crowd patiently waits for the show. In less then a half hour, the 261 will turn her first wheel under her own power in 4 years.

These fuel tenders didn't last long in service.

Canadian Pacific Holiday Train lead by CP 9824 at its final stop of the day at the CP Shoreham yard in Northeast Minneapolis.

BN's Northtown engine facility was always a fun place to visit (and still is). Lots to see in this shot during a key transition time between first and second generation diesels.

8884 gets some tender loving care in the BNSF Northtown Yard Diesel Shop in Minneapolis. Here is another shot of the BNSF Northt... (more)

At the Northtown Diesel Shop-with permission.

Soo Line no. 397 taking a spin on the turntable at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August 1962. The locomotive was one of four center cab Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s acquired from the Duluth,... (more)

A string of CN GE's round the curve out of the CP yard at University.

The Twin Cities & Western St. Paul turn rolls past Target Field, the Northstar Commuter Terminus and the Ford Center on BNSF's Wayata Subdivision with 87/3 cars and 10,000 tons on the drawbar.

Four geeps lead a Willmar-Northown manifest past Target Field Station in Minneapolis.

While waiting for the two big storms to hit the area, I dug up this shot of an SD9 awaiting disposition. Others include GP28m 1507, GP9 1661, SW1000 3618, SD9 6146: where are they now?

Westbound freight at Camden Bridge

CP's Heritage program is a matched set of patched Soo Line ex-Milwaukee Road bandits switching another industry along the Camden Industrial Lead in north Minneapolis.

A Soo Line freight pulled by a nice matching set of 3 GP7s approaches Shoreham Yard at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985.

Someone had a bad day...here are the remains of a CB&Q wooden caboose.