Always a nice view from the top of Dayton's Bluffs

The Empire Builder on Short Line Hill with trailing heritage engine #184 with the phase IV paint scheme.

Amtrak #8 coming off the St Paul sub about 90 minutes late with Amtrak heritage engine #184 trailing. Too bad it wasn't in the lead.

UP light power waits as a couple hours late #8 comes down short line hill.

MNNR lite power move heads back to St Anthony after leaving another sand train in Bluff Yard. The former LMX units likely traveled these rails before working for BN.

Waiting for the next cold winter at the roundhouse in clean fresh Big Sky Blue paint.

The clouds are winning the battle with the sun, but a last finger of light illuminates a westbound Union Pacific transfer between St. Paul and Valley Park as it passes through downtown St. Paul, M... (more)

An eastbound Z train pulls into Midway to do work before continuing to Chicago.

The Empire Builder led by #824, GE P40DC, curves around the yard tracks in the Canadian Pacific St. Paul Yard at milepost 407...the number of miles left to its termination at Chicago.

Three of Amtrak's finest lead the Empire Builder over Interstate 35E and Osceola Avenue on the Merriam Park Subdivision in St. Paul, Minnesota led by GE P40DC #824.

Plenty of heat distortion is evident as the weekly Minnesota Commercial sand train takes 150 gondolas under Lexington Parkway along the BNSF Midway Subdivision.

Three of Minnesota Commerical's finest lead the weekly unit sand train originating from the MNNR A Yard. The train passes through Westminster on the BNSF Midway Subdivision with MNNR 48 and 42 ho... (more)

Three of Minnesota Commerical's finest lead the weekly unit sand train onto the Midway subdivision (versus the St. Paul sub. via Union cutoff) from the MNNR A Yard through St. Anthony Junction. M... (more)

The St. Paul Transfer is making good time up Short Line Hill with three units.

A pair of INRD units head under the signal bridge at West Hoffman with another coke empty for Roseport.