This spot gets good morning sun for just a few months of the year when the sun is far enough north to get up above the bluffs before swinging over to the othe side of the tracks.

Right on time.

I count at least 17 locomotives scattered through Pig's Eye Yard in this shot, including the pair of GE's leading the stack train through on the main.

Mounds Park in Saint Paul offers a number of good vantage points for viewing the parade of trains through the city. This CP transfer will head into Pig's Eye Yard in under a mile. The train in t... (more)

Union Pacific's Belt Yard in Saint Paul is busy with activity early on a Monday morning. A pair or light SD40-2s rolls into the North end of the yard while a SD60M leads a short frieght into the ... (more)

Freshly renumbered and in the middle of being washed, SDP40 325 gleams in the sun ready for its first full season of passenger duty in a long time.

One of my favorite shooting locations close to where I now live. This is the time of year when shooting from this location is most favorable for sun angle. Modern CP power begins the climb out o... (more)

Clear as mud - one of a handful of surviving unpatched or unrepainted Southern Pacific locomotives rests next to a mud puddle in the Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul.

MNNR 316 works its way down the Hennepin Lead. Both Weekes and Viking Materials in the background are Minnesota Commercial customers.

Two grizzled vets creep by power awaiting assignment.

Ready for Passenger Service. Ex-BNSF SDP40 6327, nee-GN 325, has been restored to its BN heritage "Whiteface" scheme and renumbered BN 325 - in the UMLER database its MNTX 325. BN 325's hea... (more)

Standing atop MTM's GP7 this is the view one gets of Jackson Street's turntable and roundhouse. With the days work coming to an end, the employees of Jackson Street are now looking forward to thei... (more)

After setting out half their train, MPRSS departs Hoffman yard and will soon cross the Mississippi River into South St. Paul where they'll tie up.

South Saint to Pig's Eye. Pig's Eye to South Saint Paul--it's a living.

Dash 7 drills in the afternoon.