An all Ferromex lash-up passes by the Fridley North Star Station with a southbound BNSF grain train.
The Big Boy heads up the first few miles of the Staples Sub, soon to go onto the Hinckley Sub in a couple miles, never thought I would see a Big Boy in Minnesota, let alone on the BNSF, but here w... (more)
A CSX veteran is on point of this vehicle train as it heads out of Northtown after a quick crew change.
One of the local hump sets at BNSF's Northtown Yard shoves cars over the hump into the classification bowl below on a nice fall morning, as the Minneapolis skyline looms in the background.
A crude oil train snakes its way into BNSF's Northtown Yard, while the BNSF track geometry train readies for departure and carman work an inbound train.
Two sets of once proud road units pass, now relegated to hump service in BNSF's Northtown Yard on the north side of Minneapolis, MN.
A nice unlikely surprise, the older leading the newer. An SD40-2 leads an ET44AH on a BNSF autorack train through the Twin Cities, just leaving Northtown yard.
CSX SD40-2 8369, along with ET44AH #3306, leads the Blue Island, IL to Minot, ND autorack train through Fridley, MN on a perfect summer evening.
An ex Santa Fe warbonnet leads the Grand Forks manifest through Osborne Road in Fridley after being stopped twice trying to get into Northtown. A little note you can see the engineer about to give... (more)
A pair of SD60Ms lead the Superior to Northtown freight past the Fridley Northstar Station, with a BN veteran on point.
A few BNSF SD70MAC's are starting to show up recently as seen by this Grand Forks-Northtown train.
Superior-Northtown eases down the Material Yard Lead track as it approaches Interstate.
Superior WI coal emtpy.
EMD demonstrators 1063 and 1064 leading the Superior Northtown passes Interstate as it slows to enter the R yard.
A view of BNSF's Northtown Yard and the General Mills plant outside Minneapolis, from the air. (Helicopter, not drone)