Canadian Pacific 7014, one of CP's rebuilt EMDs in heritage paint is on display at St Paul Union Depot for "Train Days". This is CP's second appearance at "Train Days". Just... (more)

Northern Pacific 3617 makes its first appearance at Union Depot Train Days in St. Paul. This is its first public outing since the Lake Superior Railroad Museum completed its operational restoratio... (more)

Milwaukee Road 32A returned to Union Depot Train Days in 2022. To date, the operational E9 has made three appearances at Train Days, tied-most with the Hustle Muscle, GN 400. Thank you to al... (more)

Great Northern 400, "Hustle Muscle" returns to the Twin Cities for display at St. Paul Union Depot for "Train Days". The GN 400 for much of the 2000s was housed just up the ... (more)

Amtrak 303 is displayed at St Paul Union Depot for "Train Days". The locomotive is part of the initial order of Siemens ALC-42s to replace the aging GE Genesis locomotives on long-distan... (more)

A faded warrior of an older era in railroading leads a loaded coal train onto the power plant spur, completing its journey from the mines of Wyoming. Not many SD70MACs have remained in active s... (more)

A pair of vintage C44-9Ws lead a mixed freight past vintage BN signals on a warm spring afternoon. BNSF has slowly upgraded the C44-9Ws in BNSF's original scheme (H1/Heritage 1) with PTC and br... (more)

Union Pacific 4014...the "Big Boy" quietly rests after traveling across the state of Minnesota, reaching its northernmost destination of Duluth. While there was no formal photoshoot o... (more)

A trio of '90s-built EMD 60Ms grace the northern transcon headed west. A pair of ex-Santa Fe GP60Ms in modern paint lead an ex-Burlington Northern SD60M still sporting the cascade green. BNS... (more)

Two of Amtrak's new Siemens ALC-42s arrive at the St Cloud station for a crew change and passenger stop before continuing the second half of their maiden voyage. This was the first revenue run ... (more)

A trio of matching H4 EMD geeps speed west under the signal gantry in Big Lake, which governs eastbound traffic including originating Northstar Commuter traffic. This train was an extra, delive... (more)

Canadian Pacific 6644 ("D-Day Salute") on display for Union Depot Train Days (2021).

Union Pacific's "Spirit of the UP"/"Support our Troops" tribute locomotive made an appearance on display at "Union Depot Train Days" in 2021. The locomotive corres... (more)

Amtrak returned to "Train Days" for the first time in several years displaying newly released heritage locomotive 161 along with a few passenger cars. AMTK 161 is the second of Amtrak... (more)

Milwaukee Road 32A is on display fresh from the paint booth in new 261 fleet-inspired colors, to match the passenger car fleet of the Friends of the 261. Historically, the locomotive was UP yel... (more)