CP Rail north bound freight sets in the siding at Hastings with SD40-2 #6036 leading as the local power is parked for the night with a pair of ECO units.

Milwaukee Road Flavor The river subdivision wayfreight crosses the Mississippi River drawbridge at Hastings, Minnesota led by ICE 6101 & CP 5906. eThis train will meet a pair of Indiana Ra... (more)

CP 2216, Soo 2010 and a couple of auto carriers and hoppers idling outside the Hastings depot while the crew takes their supper break.

Some beavers are crossing the Mississippi River in Hastings MN.

A pair of clean new rebuilds are tied down next to the nice depot in Hastings MN.

Two Soo Line GP38-2 pose near the depot at Hastings many winters ago.

Engineer Craig Willett is at the controls of F40PH No. 357 on Amtrak No. 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, at East Hastings, Minnesota, on November 9, 1992.

The Northern Lights shine over the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge in Hastings as a westbound train crosses the river.

Two things I was not expecting in Hastings today: 1) The Empire Builder, running 7 hours late, and 2) led by a Cascades F59!

The way freight crosses the Mississippi River Bridge into Hastings, where it will stop to set out cars.

A matched set of Candy Apple Red SD60s crosses the Mississippi River.

Milwaukee Road #261 and train crosses over the Mississippi River and join up with the BNSF for the final run into the Twin Cities.

BNSF 9843 leads a coal train out of St. Paul, Minnesota down a very cold and ice covered Mississippi River past Lock and Dam #2 near Hastings. Lock and Dam #2 was built original built in 1907. Fol... (more)

A trio of SD60's and some mixed freight rattle the steel as they roll across the ex-Milwaukee Road (note herald) ex-Soo Line now CP Rail drawbridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Hastings,... (more)