"Four Deuces" No. 2222, one of thirty new GP20C-ECOs being delivered to St. Paul, is being set up at St. Paul on a cold January afternoon.

The first group of GP20C-ECOs assigned to St. Paul Yard have arrived and are being set up for service. No. 2213 heads up a string of units on track 7 at the St. Paul Roundhouse on this sunny Janu... (more)

The first group of GP20C-ECOs assigned to St. Paul Yard have arrived and are being set up for service. No. 2213 heads up a string of units on track 7 at the St. Paul Roundhouse on this sunny Janu... (more)

CP 9350 waits to be placed on an outbound train at Canadian Pacific's St. Paul Yard in this elevated view taken from the Sightseer Lounge aboard Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder.

After we tied up for the day, I took this photo of NREX model 2GS14B demonstrator No. 1400 under the sodium vapor lights at St. Paul Yard. This 1400-HP Genset was in town for the Railroad Interch... (more)

The day after the "Blizzard of 2010" found this set of extra hump power snowed in. Blowing snow quickly filled up switches, making things very difficult for train crews. Fortunately, the section... (more)

A cold December morning at St. Paul yard finds several Soo and CP units being prepared for duty.

When it snows...you need a Hurricane! CP's Hurricane jet snow blower makes quick work of snow-packed switches near the hump tower following the worst snowstorm of the 21st Century.

The first flakes of the "Blizzard of 2010" are falling at St. Paul Yard as a pair of switchers wait for an outbound train to clear the switching lead.

Arriving at work, I found my old friend Soo 1548 on the South Lead at St. Paul Yard, ready to work the Top End as the blizzard of 2010 got underway. There would be LOTS more snow on the ground in... (more)

At the first hint of dawn, Canadian Pacific 4614 and a sister unit have just arrived back at the yard after taking the Ford Hauler up to the Ford Plant, while the Shakopee power - a pair of former... (more)

A pair of ex-Milwaukee Road MP15ACs greet the dawn at Canadian Pacific's St. Paul Yard in Minnesota.

This locomotive once hauled main line freight through the Canadian rockies; it's now used as a hump engine at Canadian Pacific's ex-Milwaukee Road yard in St. Paul. It's seen during shift change ... (more)

Canadian Pacific 4617, ex- Milwaukee Road 165, sits idle on the clean out track at St. Paul Yard while a fireworks show plays out in downtown St. Paul, part of the Taste of Minnesota festival.

A former Milwaukee Road MP15AC sits idle on the top end at St. Paul Yard as a fast moving thunderstorm approaches.