A hot Portland to Chicago intermodal drops down Midway Subdivision #2 after working BNSF St Paul Intermodal, while CP 581-341 rolls through the tunnel on St Paul Sub #1 with crude empties returnin... (more)

Helpers in the Twin Cities? UP helper HSSRP 05 with a recently re-activated SD60M/SD60 combo, shove petroleum coke train ORPIK 04 out of the Mississippi River onto the UP Adams Line. The helpers... (more)

A two hour late #8 Empire Builder drops down Shortline Hill and will shortly make it's Twin Cities stop at St Paul Union Depot.

It may look like a race, but it's really the turtle vs. the sloth. Both Upper River Services LLC's Itasca and Union Pacific's YSP80 03 are making less than 10 mph through Dayton's Bluff.

A Blue Island, IL/IHB to Minot, ND auto rack train rolls past the 'cutoff' at Union Junction.

Looking pretty close to when it was delivered to the GB&W in 1965, 313 has kept the same number and had only two owners during it's 53 year life. 313 has been frequenting the Hugo Job, which was ... (more)

A pair of BNSF SD40-2s head light through St. Paul

UP YSPMP 03 returns from East Minneapolis Yard to South St Paul Yard. It was nice to catch a trio of standard cabs on Dayton's Bluff.

A huge St Paul, MN to Alyth, AB train 197 pulls out of Pigs Eye to double up their train. Weighing in at 27/206 cars, 10049 tons & 13422’; it is little wonder they couldn't get communication with... (more)

Old Burlington Northern station signs are great.

UP SD60M 2304 sits in a small yard in St Paul.

A 5-pack of TCW engines bring a manifest train towards Saint Paul, MN.

The CP transfer flies alongside the CP Saint Paul yard to reverse in from the East end at Newport

A pair of GE's chug out of Saint Paul yard with the daily St Paul, MN - Calgary Alyth, AB manifest/intermodal train.

BNSF 2571 + 2785 haul a 65 car drag towards the CP yard at Saint Paul