The "Northfield" job is swinging out of CP Saint Paul yard across the Merriam Park Sub and onto the Robert Street lift bridge, which is due for replacement soon. Even made local news: h... (more)

A Canadian Pacific ethanol train, with a solid set of CSX power, waits for a clear signal as it prepares to head east out of Pig’s Eye Yard on CP’s Merriam Park Sub. The locomotives on this C... (more)

CP H37, the Northfield, crosses the Robert Street Lift Bridge with a pair of former Soo Line SD60s for power.

Amtrak train 17, the North Coast Hiawatha races toward St. Paul between Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard and BN's Dayton's Bluff yard. One of Amtrak's nicer efforts, the train featured a dome coach,... (more)

Amtrak train 17, the North Coast Hiawatha races into St. Paul past Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard hump tower and BN's main and Dayton's Bluff yard lead. E9 MILW 31C, built in April 1956, which wil... (more)

YSP51 does some hostling at Plato Blvd in order to make the UP 1823 their leader for the trip up to East Minneapolis. The PTC on the UP 1933 failed, which is what made this move necessary.

CP H15 starts up Short Line Hill with BNSF 1943 and 261 for power. This power is from the previous day's BN-CP, which died in St. Paul Yard. Not an unheard of occurrence, but certainly not somethi... (more)

The BN-CP transfer emerges from the former NP tunnel underneath Westminster, as they head down to St. Paul with 56 cars for the CP.

YSPMP starts down the hill at Midway. The rear DPUs of the Z-CHCPTL7-12A can be seen hanging out of the yard on Main 2.

The midday BNSF transfer from Northtown Yard to Pigs Eye (CP's St. Paul Yard) cruises along Dayton's Bluff in St. Paul behind "vintage" BN green power led by BNSF SD60M no.1458 and an SD... (more)

CN 2438, one of its unique full-cowl Dash 8 units, rumbles through Hoffman Avenue on a nice spring day.

Canadian Pacific SD9043MACs weren't a common sight in Minnesota, so finding No. 9127 alongside leased CEFX SD9043MAC No. 126 at St. Paul certainly warranted a photo. No. 9127 has been rebuilt and ... (more)

Not A Heritage Unit...Yet Canadian Pacific SD40-2F 9017 rests outside of CP's St. Paul Roundhouse on a fall afternoon in 1999. It would later be sold to Central Maine & Quebec and repainte... (more)

Five SD 40Ns on the transfer from Union Pacific's East Minneapolis to South St Paul MN

YSP51 crosses the Robert St Lift Bridge with an impressive quintet of SD40Ns for power. SD40Ns are the mainstay of UP local power around the Twin Cities, but this is the first time I have ever see... (more)