The Belt Job, under the control of MNNR 76, heads into the yard in Saint Paul on the opposite end of its duties. This new acquisition for the Minnesota Commercial has number 76, whereas it retaine... (more)

MILW 60A, an FP7 built as 90A in June 1950, mates with an F7A and moves away from the MILW engine terminal at Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul. After a career of handling Hiawatha's and other MILW passeng... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

BN SDP45 9858 sits alongside Dale St. Shops in St. Paul, MN, still wearing its passenger number. A close look indicates the unit has been sideswiped on the engineer side. There is some damage to t... (more)

UP comes down off the Belt and into Hoffman Yard.

A pair of dash 7s switch Midway Yard in St. Paul.

S CHCTAC slowly works its way upgrade at Jackson Street with three different BNSF schemes on the head end, just before the shadows crept in.

The St. Paul turn heads upgrade at Jackson Street with a matched set of TCW GP38-2s.

A pair of CPKC EMDs lead hotshot train #148 through Westminster. Leader being a heritage ACU, trailer a KCS MAC.

The TCW St. Paul turn heads over the Robert Street bridge with a whopping 3 cars to boot.

A pair of Minnesota Commercial dash 7s perform switching duties at Midway Yard.

Milwaukee Road 261 leads the North Pole Express equipment through Seventh Street, as they head for Saint Paul Union Depot. https://261.com/npe/

Three NP passenger locomotives F7A 6511A, F9B 6701B and F7A 6501A has just uncoupled from the passenger cars at St. Paul Union Depot on April 11, 1968. Photo by RR Wallin, from my collection. ... (more)

Colorful consists on CP are fairly norm now when DPU isn't involved since the CPKC deal happening, today all the power is on the head end in "conventional setup". The new crossovers in Dunn short... (more)

A BNSF Intermodal Train departs the Twin Cities under a cool winter sunset. An H1 Dash 9 pair running 1x1 leads the train into the cold night ahead towards LaCrosse Wisconsin.