Freshly painted MNNR 85 is the head end power today. The 85 on the roof is interesting - easily seen by a news chopper, drone, or in this case, a railfan on an overpass.

MNNR 49 is returning to the roundhouse with an extra set of wheels.

UP 1988 "The Katy" is reunited with its train after performing a run-around. The three engines crossed the swing bridge at Kaposia Landing, then the lift bridge in downtown St. Paul. N... (more)

Midway Station is no longer in use and the Empire Builder now bypasses the old platform. Today the train is late providing a nice afternoon setting as it heads toward Union Depot in downtown St. ... (more)

Soo Line SD60 no. 6031 is tucked in the shop out of view of those nasty looking former MILW MP15ACs at St. Paul Yard (Pig's Eye) in St. Paul, MN. Soo Line could have taken some lessons from BN who... (more)

SOO GP35 no. 728 and a pair of Alco trucked GP30s pull a freight out of Pigs Eye Yard along Dayton's Bluff at St. Paul on a snowless December day in 1986. I'm not totally sure, but assume this was... (more)

Minnesota Commercial MNNR 44 has returned to the yard after completing the trip to Hugo.

Never a shortage of trains along Dayton's Bluff just outside downtown St. Paul, MN and on this Christmas Eve day the power matches the day-- dark, dirty and gloomy.

A light power move along the Daytons Bluff corridor on a gloomy Christmas Eve day. The scene brought back memories and images of the video to the R.E.M. song Driver 8 which featured Chessie Syst... (more)

The overcast/gloomy weather or the fact that it's Christmas Eve doesn't stop train traffic on one of Minnesota's busiest stretches of railroad.

A pair of CP GP20C-ECOs and a GP38 handle a transfer run out of Pigs Eye Yard along Dayton's Bluff at St. Paul, MN on a nearly snowless December day.

Like the Twin Cities 400 of the C&NW, UP 4014 arrives at St. Paul Union Depot by backing in. This positions the train to head east to X-C&NW trackage on July 23 to travel to Eau Claire and Altoona... (more)

UP 4014 arrives at St. Paul, using former NP trackage at Westminster Jct. to approach Union Station. It is about to roll under the former C&NW freight mainline which connects at Jackson St. to X-G... (more)