Amtrak's Arrowhead which provided service between the Twin Cities and Twin Ports is crossing the Mississippi River at the entry to the former GN depot in Minneapolis. At this time Amtrak used this... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha has just left the former GN station in Minneapolis for its trip to Chicago. This first 100 plus miles are along the Mississippi River, starting here with a crossing o... (more)

CNW 222 was born as an FT, rebuilt as CNW 4052A, an FP9M, and saw service pulling the Twin Cities 400 and Duluth-Chicago passenger trains before entering freight service. Here at Minneapolis, the ... (more)

BN "Cadillac" 6121 switches Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN in October of 1988 as a Soo Line freight passes overhead.

An eastbound hot intermodal passes Northtown Yard at University Avenue. A cut of loaded NSPX (Northern States Power, now Xcel Energy) coal cars for delivery to the Riverside plant is on the adjac... (more)

CNW 222, formerly 4052A was an FP9AM rebuilt from an FT. It handled the Twin Cities 400 and other CNW passenger trains before going into freight service. It sits at Cedar Lake engine facilities be... (more)

Weather in Minneapolis is still pretty wintery as a CNW crew handles some switching with a vintage NW2 switch engine of Minneapolis & St. Louis origin. CNW had an NW1 and a couple TR2 sets, but NW... (more)

This train is a few minutes away from arriving in SOO's Shoreham Yard.

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha crosses the landmark GN Stone Arch bridge as the westbound train approaches the Minneapolis station. By the time it continues west, the sun will be setting and it wil... (more)

CNW 219 leads a mixture of Fs into Cedar Lake Yard at Minneapolis, MN with a freight from Marshalltown, IA. This train operated on the former Minneapolis & St. Louis mainline and F units and older... (more)

This publicity photo of The 400 was taken for the C&NW Public Relations Dept. most likely around September 1939 when the streamlined train was first inaugurated. I was able to make a copy photo of... (more)

BN 9794 was a former NP passenger FP7, one of two that were purchased to cover passenger service between the Twin Cities and Duluth and International Falls, MN. In March 1973 the unit still wears ... (more)

BN's class GP35 was GN's class GP35. No. 2500 leads a former CB&Q GP35 on a transfer headed towards Lyndale Yard Minneapolis' west side. The train is coming off the Mississippi River freight line ... (more)

Here is an example of an GN homemade repaint into Big Sky Blue. GP20 no. 2002, among the only or very few classes of locos to retain their predecessor numbers in the BN merger, has been repainted ... (more)

In March of 1973 one could still find non-BN painted predecessor locomotives, but green was getting a foot hold. Here former GN 424, a factory painted Big Sky Blue SD45 can be compared to BN's cas... (more)