In beautiful evening sunshine, Bessemer & Lake Erie 903 leads a CN SD40-2 and a C40-8 north with an empty ore train. A loaded train can be seen on the adjacent track awaiting a crew to take it sou... (more)

GN 192 is on display for Train Days at the St. Paul Union Depot. The engine is from the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth.

MILW 261 and GN 192 switch around each other in Minneapolis after a two day visit for train days at the St. Paul Union Depot.

MILW 261, GN 192 and MILW 32A return to Minneapolis after a two day visit for train days at the St. Paul Union Depot.

MILW 261, GN 192 and MILW 32A head back to Minneapolis after a two day visit for train days at the St. Paul Union Depot.

MILW 261, GN 192 and MILW 32A leave St. Paul after a two day visit for train days at Union Depot.

Early in the morning, 215 and 403 are paired up and ready for switch duty. If you ignore the modern cars, and the CN sign on the trailer, it sure looks like this could be from the Missabe era.

Northtown-Kick heads under the signal bridge at Hoffman as the sun comes out for a bit at the end of this mostly gloomy afternoon and evening. A pair of ACes were on the head end, and a dash 9 at ... (more)

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. Alongsid... (more)

Empty ballast train heads east towards La Crosse, WI.

A trio of Canadian National Dash 8's lead loaded taconite train U789 as it rolls along the shores of Highland Lake in Highland, Minnesota. With a load of pellets from Minntac, the train is heading... (more)

A couple autumns ago, BNSF's Lincoln to Northtown manifest crosses Washington Creek in Dassel, trailing 3rd is a GP7, NPR 1752.

After meeting their 3rd eastbound of the day, this ballast train departs Paynesville siding, putting on quite a smoke show. Ballast would be dumped later that night at Murray.

A loaded ballast train heads west on the Paynesville Sub at MP 39, with a KCS MAC leading the way. They would meet a few eastbounds on their journey west.

Ballast empties swing into Renville on the old Milwaukee mainline.