The Empire Builder temporarily follows the Ayd Mill Road as it rounds one of the many curves along the Merriam Park subdivision between MSP Midway Station and downtown St. Paul.

Built by Southern Pacific as SD45 #9001, CEFX 3121 is one of eight leased CEFX/CITX locomotives occupying space on a new spur off of the River Subdivision in the Cottage Grove Industrial Park. Th... (more)

Only a few mintues out of MSP Midway Station, the Empire Builder cruises towards downtown St. Paul along the Ayd Mill Road.

An "on-time" performing Empire Builder passes through the milepost 402.8 defect detector through Newport, Minnesota en route to Red Wing.

A priority intermodal train enters the state of Wisconsin over the mickey mouse-esque lift bridge over the St. Croix River.

"Oh yeah...this thing sure is goin' pretty slow, then..." In one of the most painfully slow switch maneuvers, CP 9606 backs through the 3rd St. grade crossing past the historic Soo Line depot at a... (more)

Easter Sunday's Empire Builder travels down the grade from short line hill in St. Paul right on time on a very nice sunny morning.

The second-to-last Northstar commuter train from Target Field to Big lake throttles up as it hits the mainline from the Harrison St./Minneapolis Jct. wye.

Heading northbound into downtown, a Hiawatha Line LRT vehicle #107B enters the Downtown East/Metrodome station in amongst the Vikings Football banners in Metrodome Plaza. Guthrie Theater is in th... (more)

The Oneida St. Griswolds: The Empire Builder engages the classic Minneapolis-built Griswold signals in the West 7th St. neighborhood in St. Paul. Tonight's train featured the Amtrak herit... (more)

Oof....the SW1 leased by Malt One, a grain elevator within the CPR Shoreham Yard, is looking pretty rough. This thing is commonly seen from the popular railfan hangout at station sign University,... (more)

A unit fertilizer train heads south through the former station of Roan on the Noyes subdivision after discharging at the CHS Northwest Grain elevator in Warren, Minnesota.

Monster Minnesota Northern train.....with six locomotives. The Warroad local makes one last connection at the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator before rolling down the Detroit Lakes subdivision... (more)

Three Minnesota Northern/ILSX locomotives assemble grain hoppers at the Greenbush CHS Salol Elevator in a scene that can only be seen once per week. The second unit is ILSX 1335, a former CP Rail... (more)

100% SOO Line. Although it is not the premier passenger train The Winnipeger, the Thief River Falls - Glenwood wayfreight gets underway passing Edmund Pennington's Minneapolis, St. Paul &... (more)