After waiting for Northstar to clear, this empty coal train finally gets its turn to head west for Willmar.

2010 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train crossing the Camden Place Rail Bridge in Minneapolis.

Turn and go for this pair on this Spring morning.

Where did the slugs go? Last I was here (July 2010), two slugs sets handled hump duties. TEBC6 and mates now make up one hump set and three SD somethings comprise the other.

Nothing screams speed more than Northstar racing through the snow. Here the outbound led by the 502 kicks up a cloud of snow during one of many snow squalls that hit the area yesterday.

A Twin Cities & Western freight is on its way to interchange with CP in St. Paul as it passes through the Target Field Northstar commuter station in Minneapolis. Good dispatching has threaded this... (more)

A scene not to often photographed, here SP 4449 sits inside the MILW 261 shops in Saint Paul under going some routine Maintenance before it finishes its trip back home after attending Train festiv... (more)

Painted for snow plow/MOW service, BN F7 #9758 awaits its next call to duty at Minneapolis in this June 1975 scene.

On weekends Northstar likes to use two units as protection against one failing in route. Here the second of three trains for the day clears the wye at Van Buren Street where MILW 261 is stored.

The Garden Job crosses a small bridge over the causeway between Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. The job is heading back to Southtown yard in south Minneapolis after running out ... (more)

An unpatched Southern Pacific AC4400 is in charge of this crude oil train. This eastbound had a little set back at Humboldt Yard when it had to wait for a couple of westbounds and a northbound hea... (more)

The WC Transfer departs Humboldt Yard.

Soo 730 heads west out of Humboldt Yard on a nice September day back in 1988 as seen from Osseo Road.

The last westbound before the afternoon Northstar rush slowly crawls out of Minneapolis along the Cedar Lake bike trail.