BNSF 252 brings freight into Northtown Yard with the "Gritty Palace" private car on the rear. The car is in route to its new home at the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The yard has b... (more)

A Northstar passenger train heads West past Northtown yard in Minneapolis.

BNSF 2793 passes a caboose with the Minneapolis skyline in the background.

BNSF 2793 is shoving four cars and caboose backwards to its destination about three miles down the mainline. The consist resembles a HO box set.

Various BNSF power rests in the deadline at Northtown Yard.

MNNR 316, a rare Alco RS27 works Hawkins, Inc with Job 52 “The Hennepin Job” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

AMTK 161 leads the eastbound Empire Builder through Minneapolis.

A pair of Canadian Pacific GP20C-ECO's lead the Shoreham Transfer job H17 as it rolls across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota and heads back to Humboldt Yard.

BN 5617 and 5663 pair up with some X-NP F9s at BN's former GN Harrison St. engine facilities in March 1974. BN 5617 was NP 2517, built in June 1965 and retired in March 1981. BN 5663 was CB&Q 575,... (more)

Amtrak E9s 405, 451, and 406 await their next run at BN's Harrison St. shops in July 1973. The units were acquired from Milwaukee Road and assigned to the North Coast Hiawatha. They were MILW 30A,... (more)

By July 1973, Amtrak was repainting passenger units acquired from the member railroads. Here we have an A-B-A set of recently painted E9s acquired from Milwaukee Road. Amtrak used the BN Harrison ... (more)

The engineer for Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha checks things over as the train loads passengers at Minneapolis. At start up, Amtrak chose to make one stop in the Twin Cities and decided on Minneap... (more)

Working Northtown's hump.

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha switched power at Minneapolis in its early years of operation. In March 1973, BN power was removed here and MILW E9s applied. PC E8s also made appearances. Nearly 2 y... (more)

BNSF 1458 and 1687 idle by the Hansen-Mueller Elevator (formerly Calumet).