Monticello local train on the main line with a bunch of empty center beams while the siding has loaded lumber cars.

Coal loads head east over the Gull River on a very nice April afternoon. I've always wanted a shot here and today was finally the day.

BN 10072 brings up the rear of an eastbound TOFC hotshot rolling by MILW Pigs Eye Yard in July 1972. Rocky lives on the former GN caboose at this point on a train led by BN 6423, former NP 3623. N... (more)

CN SD40-2W 5318 leads ore loads South through Adolph.

The flow of commerce beneath the cliffs of the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood on the southeast side of Saint Paul is nearly constant, whether it's by river, road, or rail. It's certainly one of the b... (more)

Just minutes after Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder departed Saint Paul Union Depot, Union Pacific makes an appearance at Division Street. Two SD40N's are in full dynamics as they ease a lengthy ... (more)

A westbound RCPE train awaits a crew to depart while most of the yard tracks are empty.

After a long, snowy winter, it's finally beginning to feel like spring in Minnesota as the sun comes out from behind some clouds and shines on the eastbound Empire Builder departing Saint Paul.

Amtrak's United Aircraft Turbo Train was on display at the former GN station in Minneapolis as part of a nationwide tour in September 1971. It drew a lot of attention with a crowd still waiting to... (more)

MILW 35A and an E9B have coupled on to Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha for its trip between Minneapolis and Chicago. The train is at the former Great Northern Station on Hennepin Avenue in downtown ... (more)

A worker hand washes the windows of Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha at the Minneapolis Great Northern Station prior to its departure for Chicago. The train disappeared in 1979 during a Carter Admini... (more)

AMTK 150, an F7B, gets a look over by BN Dale St. Shop workers in St. Paul, MN in March 1973. The locomotive was built as GN 462C in January 1953 and renumbered to BN 9754 before Amtrak acquired i... (more)

As a early April snowstorm pounds the iron range, DMIR 400 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Biwabik.

As a early April snowstorm pounds the iron range, DMIR 400 leads the Two Harbors MRF South through Iron Junction.

Just before the sun rises on a cold April morning, CN 2031 is scurrying along the CN Iron Range Sub and passing through the yard at Biwabik, MN heading towards home at Two Harbors.