A Soo Line transfer freight enters Milwaukee Road’s Pigs Eye Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. Powered by two former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern SW1200s and two Soo Line ... (more)

After traveling by the Puget Sound, through the Cascades, Glacier National Park, the Great Plains of Montana and North Dakota, plus the farming landscape of Minnesota, the Empire Builder tr... (more)

a good representation of EMD power at the former Milwaukee Road Diesel house at Pigs Eye Yard in St. Paul

Arriving exactly when it should be departing, the Empire Builder pulls through the switches off of the BNSF Midway Subdivision at St. Anthony Junction into the Minnesota Commercial A Yard i... (more)

The Empire Builder made up all its lost time between St. Cloud and St. Paul and made an on-time departure from the St. Paul Midway Station. On this ideal summer day passengers will get som... (more)

A busy Sunday afternoon at Pig's Eye. I count 21 locomotives: 2 Pacman CP SD40-2s, a couple Bandits, 3 NS units, TC&Ws...

CP power waiting their fate: MP15ACs 1433, 1404, 1540; GP38-2s 4414, 4417,4420 and 4429. Look close, 8756 is in the shop.

A former DM&IR SD9 (145) leads two sister SD9s on a transfer at Dayton's Bluff.

A pair of Minnesota Commercial Alco's doing some switching in the Twin Cities area

A CP local/transfer heads underneath aptly named High Bridge on its way to perform some work in the St. Paul area.

A patched SP AC4400CW leader on a UP mixed freight (with two SD40-2s trailing) was a nice surprise in our 90-minute visit to famous Dayton's Bluff. While I'm used to seeing patched SP power back ... (more)

A CP transfer arrives at Dayton's Bluff with three new GP20Cs and a verteran SOO Line GP38-2 on a cold, clear day in the twin cities.

Lots of people were in the lounge and dining cars as the Empire Builder traveled through St. Paul adjacent to the Mississippi River. The weather was excellent, sunny and warm, making for a... (more)

ES44AC 8806 and a tired looking beaver head into Saint Paul Yard on what became a fine morning after the clouds were chased out of Saint Paul.

The Empire Builder makes up good time lost during the night around Fargo by shortening the St. Paul station stop. From St. Paul to Chicago the train would not do any worse than a few min... (more)