MNNR 50 leads the sand train down the hill on the St. Paul Sub. Track speed is good for 45 mph, but they take it easy as they don't have dynamic brakes.

Job 11 heads through the "cut off" which connects the BNSF Midway Sub with the BNSF St. Paul Sub.

The sand pulls across University Avenue to double up their train. Construction continues here for the Central Corridor light rail line.

This year, the Easter Bunny brought beautiful weather and clean INRD units.

A pair of clean INRD SD90s lead a CP coke train over the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul.

A pair of freshly repainted SD60s show off their new colors to another pair of SD60s still in white and red SOO paint.

CP and BNSF trains meet at Dayton's Bluff while a loaded coke train led by two SOO SD60s waits for things to clear. Amtrak's Empire Builder is also barely visible waiting behind the coke train.

Sunrise at Pig's eye yard finds a trio of GPs heading off to work while a freight gets ready to head west from the departure tracks.

Easter Sunday's Empire Builder travels down the grade from short line hill in St. Paul right on time on a very nice sunny morning.

Two SD60's lead a set of new sand hoppers to the Ford Plant where they'll be stored. The Ford Plant closed in December, making shots through here difficult.

The Oneida St. Griswolds: The Empire Builder engages the classic Minneapolis-built Griswold signals in the West 7th St. neighborhood in St. Paul. Tonight's train featured the Amtrak herit... (more)

The St. Paul Transfer has just started up Short Line Hill yet they've already gained quite a bit of height as the tracks were once level with the road on the right. They'll continue up the hill p... (more)

Still looking pretty good in it's Ex NP paint(except for a mismatched battery box door) BN 5667 suns itself at Daytons Bluff. The U25/28C's spent a good amount of their time in coal service after ... (more)

Fog hangs just above the Mississippi River and buildings of downtown Saint Paul as a Twin Cities and Western train heads for CP's Saint Paul Yard.