UP 3985 made a brief stop at Ames and is now steaming at track speed with the Twin Cities Limited Tour just west of Nevada heading for E. KC Jct and north on the "Spine Line" to Mason City... (more)

A 4-8-4, Not Exactly!. That's MILW 261 engineer Steve Sandberg our engineer on Steve Glischinski's 1970's era photo freight. From the cab, Steve is admiring the concrete piers that support ... (more)

First Revenue Run in new BN paint scheme. MNTX 6234 is ready to make its first revenue run of the season from the Osceola, WI depot. Both MNTX 6234 and MNTX GP7 559 pulled the train today. ... (more)

BN Heritage - NEW Paint. BN SD9 6234 (nee-C&S 839 b/d 4-59) has just returned from Wisconsin & Southern's Horicon, WI paint shop with a new coat of BN "Cascade" Green and retaining the BN 6... (more)

UP DDA40X CENTENNIAL 6936 in Freight Service - 1976. UP DDA40X 6936, UP SD40-2H "Fast Forty" 8012 and UP DDA40X 6923 westbound on priority TOFC. During the mid to late 1970s, two Centennial... (more)

Spirit of '76' 1976. The second BN "Bicentennial" 1976, nee-GN 323/BN 9853/6397. Renumbered back to BN 6397 in January 1979. Only 20 SDP40s built - six for GN and fourteen for NdeM.

MILW 261 was transported courtesy of the Wisconsin Central Ltd. from the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay , WI to its restoration site in Minneapolis during September 20-22, 1992. A brief sto... (more)

Three CATS and a GEEP. Four units (2 GP20Cs, a GP10 and a GP30C) pull this long westbound TC&W St. Paul Turn up the hill on this designated DINA. Consist was mostly empty ethanol an... (more)

After making a brief servicing stop in St. Cloud, X4449 (ex-SP GS-4 4449) accelerates with the American Freedom Train southbound on the Burlington Northern as it passes by the Minnesota Sta... (more)

Back to the Fifties. Portrait of a CP H1b. Westbound at MP 33 near Marine.

The Dresser Stationmaster hoops-up the TOs to CP 2816 pulling the Dresser Local as it flies by the Dresser Depot on the return trip to Minneapolis.

The Dresser Local has just arrived at the Soo Line depot in Dresser, WI. The train will turn on the wye and head back to Minneapolis one hour later.

Alray Tunnel #1 - 30 Years Ago. Santa Fe light power (two GP30s and three GP35s) move westbound on the North Track at Alray approaching the east portal to tunnel #1, the upper tunnel. This ... (more)

DMIR 406 (rebuilt ex-SP SD45T-2 6768/SP 9501/SP 9171) leads taconite pellet loads from the UTAC pellet plant at Fairlane, MN bound for Proctor and Duluth docks. DMIR 406 is one of the most recent ... (more)

Warren Buffett's Railroad. After setting-out several cars, this eastbound Z-train departs BNSF's Midway Yard. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway recently acquired a 10.9% stake in BURLINGT... (more)