SP 4449 is cut off from the inbound excursion train; Amtrak 23 will take the cars from here to the depot at Midway.

Amtrak 23 has been cut away from the train as well as some of the passenger cars. The Amtrak unit will take the cars cut away to the Amtrak Station in Saint Paul. SP 4449 just entered the tracka... (more)

The Amtrak diesel has been cut away and a few of the passenger cars have been removed. A bit later after this shot was taken the cars cut off from the train were moved to the Midway Amtrak depot.... (more)

SP 4449 rolls under the Soo Line bridge and past lines of stored BNSF power on the inbound trip from Portland to Minneapolis. The big Lima Northern hasn't vistited this area since the days of the... (more)

SP 4449 pulls into the home of MILW 261 where it'll spend a little over a week getting tweaked and ready for the rest of the trip to Michigan.

In honor of 4449 returning to Minnesota this summer, here's one of my favorite shots of the 4-8-4. During the American Freedom Train's visit to the state in 1975, the train was displayed in Minnea... (more)

Visitors from the north run a transfer job through Northtown en route to Humboldt Yard, just across the Mississippi River.

These three SD75s have been separated from the herd of stored locomotives at Northtown. Back to work for this trio?

Creeping through Northtown on a Friday afternoon, this train is led by BNSF 2968--delivered to Gulf Mobile & Ohio in 1964 (#613) as a GP35. BNSF upgraded the unit to a GP39V. She looks good, lon... (more)

One of two Northtown slug sets works the hump.

I'm not from around here, so I must ask--When and why did BNSF add power to their slug sets?

BNSF 3447, the Golden Globe switcher, shoves damaged ES44AC into the shop. A few new doors and railings are needed at least. The damage was caused by running through a trailer, see comment belo... (more)

An autorack/trailer train creeps through the yard while older EMD units await their fate in BNSF's Northtown Yard. There are multiple lines of locomotives sitting in the yard now. A couple of li... (more)

Job 52 shoves across the intersection of Hennepin and Industrial Blvd. The 316 belches a little bit of smoke to clear the crossing and switch some of the industries along the branch.

An SD40-2 works the east end of the bowl tracks next to stored SD75's at Northtown. Meanwhile, a crew works hard to rerail an NS Dash 9 that split a switch just beyond the CP overpass in the dist... (more)