13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)

EL SD45 no. 3603 and an SDP45 await their eastbound assignment at the locomotive servicing area at Burlington's Dayton Bluff Yard at St. Paul, MN. This late December day featured morning temps aro... (more)

A Minnesota Commercial job works their main yard, while a BNSF local interchanges cars under the power of a BN painted SD60M and a BNSF "great pumpkin" SD60M. In the upper right, a BNSF intermodal... (more)

Milwaukee Road Baldwin S-12 switcher no. 925 is parked at Pigs Eye, St. Paul on a dreary March day in 1973. Not sure when this unit was retired, but sister units disappeared about 1976.

Adam Farence Photo

The "Northfield job" crosses the Mississippi at Robert Street in St Paul.

CP 6248 and two more units lead a transfer upgrade out of downtown St. Paul toward Minnesota Commercial's yard at Midway. The line was once Milwaukee's mainline to Minneapolis.

BNSF 7048 on a vehicle train eases to a stop as a CP transfer out of Pigs Eye Yard heads toward interlockings and will work its way past Union Station and cross the Mississippi to reach South St. ... (more)

Behind a matched trio of “Building America” dressed GE AC4400s, Union Pacific empty coal train CBPBT9 05 crawls across the frozen waters of the mighty Mississippi River atop the vertical lift brid... (more)

Milwaukee Road received some of the earliest EMD SD40-2s after foregoing SD40s in favor of a handful of SD45s. Originally delivered in the 3000 series they were the last engine model delivered wit... (more)

CP 498 takes the cutoff from the Midway Sub onto the St. Paul Sub at Union Junction, with a very colorful consist pulling this 13000 ft train.

A classic BN SD60M leads the BNCP Transfer into Pigs Eye Yard.

The Chessie System sticker unit leads a skittles consist under the Hoffman Ave. signal bridge into Pigs Eye Yard.

MILW 69C, a freight F7A with a passenger pilot endures foul spring weather at St. Paul while waiting its next assignment. This unit built in July 1950 and retired in May 1978 and scrapped. This un... (more)

Not sure if C&NW was practicing to become Norfolk Southern, but the business end of their SD45s look pretty impressive, even if the crew had to wrench their necks running this transfer at St. Paul... (more)