BN 7854 passes thru the bluffs at Hoffmann Ave in St. Paul, MN in October of 1991. A CNW coal train, led by SD18 6627, waits for it's turn to proceed.

A CP yard job takes headroom on the elevated mainline through downtown Saint Paul with a pair of SD40 model locomotives.

Locomotives:
CP 5105 SD40-3
CP 6000 SD40-2

Hoffman Ave. is a busy place in August 1991 with a pair of CNW freight transfers waiting to make their moves out to joint trackage with BN and SOO along Dayton Bluff in St. Paul. The power shows o... (more)

Matched SD-60s head up Short Line Hill

Great Northern SDP40 #325, once the last active passenger locomotive on BNSF's roster until 2009, sits out in the winter sun at the ex-GN Jackson Street Roundhouse. Built in 1966, this locomoti... (more)

Thanks to JFStrauss for all the information on my father's photo of BN No. 7 at Westminster Junction. On that same day, my father also photographed the eastbound morning Zephyr, BN No. 8 from the... (more)

A pair of CP GP's lead a local along the Mississippi and into CP's Saint Paul yard.

Locomotives:
CP 2242 GP20C-ECO
CP 4599 GP39-2

A pair of CP SD40 variants lead a yard job along the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul.

Locomotives:
CP 5105 SD40-3
CP 6000 SD40-2

The Minnesota Commercial rosters an eclectic mix of Alco and older GE locomotives at it's engine terminal and roundhouse in Saint Paul.

The Hugo Job passes Kasota Ponds on it's way north. 316 is one of only two operating RS-27s, both on the Commercial... not looking much different from it's birth, as GB&W 316.

Global cooling was the name of the game as minus 22 degree weather greeted EL 3652 and SD45 3603 at Burlington's Dayton Bluff Yard. CB&Q was proactive in making run-through agreements for motive p... (more)

A Burlington Northern stack train passes Hoffman Avenue (West Hoffman) at Dayton’s Bluff in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 22, 1986. A pair of EMD GP50s in “tiger stripe” paint bracket a GE B... (more)

This picture might help us date my father's pictures from the Kellogg Boulevard bridge. An eastbound Milwaukee Road train led by two GP30s and a many GP9s has just passed St. Paul Union Depot as ... (more)