An old P42DC leads a new route towards St. Paul. This is the #1333, westward Borealis service between Chicago and St. Paul.

A pair of Phase 7 ALC-42 Chargers leads Amtrak 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, past the former Milwaukee Road depot in Hastings, MN.

The R901 crew uses the north leg of the wye on the south end of CN's Keenan yard for headroom while switching cars around and after the switch is thrown the engineer shoves back into the yard.

After switching out one gondola and picking two up from a metal recycling business, the Kelly Lake local is heading west about to pass under the former DMIR steel bridge just outside of downtown H... (more)

A pair of GP38-2s amble their way past the former GN depot in Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN as they head for their yard west of town at Kelly Lake.

Coming off the CN Iron Range sub and turning north at Iron Jct. for the rest of the trip up to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant to load iron ore.

Time to get going as the engineer ramps up the speed.

A BNSF hump set consisting of two Warbonnets bracketing an SD40-2 (which curiously has a golden swoosh on the nose) pushes a cut of cars over the hump at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN. Off to ... (more)

A couple of BNSF SD70ACes sit outside the diesel shop at BNSF's Northtown Yard while a former BN green switcher works hard shuttling other diesels around.

BNSF 637, an old Santa Fe C44-9W still wearing Warbonnet paint (albeit very faded), works a pull-down job at the south end of BNSF's Northtown Yard while a pair of Warbonnet Dash 8 locomotives com... (more)

Minntac loads hold the main line at Biwabik for an empty train coming north out of Two Harbors. The yard here sees little use these days other than as storage space for unused railcars.

CN 3309 and CN 3331 and a train made up of three different sets of passenger cars (some to Pokegama for Duluth, some for the Friends of 261 in the Twin Cities and some for Homewood) make their sou... (more)

An extra North Star commuter train carrying attendees from the Minnesota Twins baseball game rushes underneath the Saint Anthony Parkway bridge just south of BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, ... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western freight passes through downtown St. Paul, MN on its way to CPKC's Pigs Eye Yard on the south side of the city. Today's train consists of four Geeps, the third of which wear... (more)

Steam is still coming off of a loaded train as it accelerates toward the highway crossing at Rollins, making a run at the last long upgrade section of track between here and Highland. Like many ra... (more)