Pacing shot of CP 8552, nearing Treasure Island Casino on Ravenna Trail. Note the two layers of bluffs in the background.
A 150-car manifest led by SOO 6048 is clattering across the old Milwaukee Road bridge. It is one of only three railroad lift bridges over the Mississippi.
CP 4507 and caboose idle under a brutal thunderstorm, as the 8757 sneaks up from behind. 23:49hrs.
Milwaukee Road's northbound Morning Hiawatha's superdome was just off the Mississippi River Bridge about 18 miles southeast of St. Paul and almost 400 miles from Chicago, where it left at 9:30 a.m... (more)
A Dash 9, SD40M-2 and a realtivley rare GP60B cruise along below some houses with a magnificent view of the Mississippi River Valley
Three railroads represented on this Z train. BNSF, NS and CN cruise eastbound along the Mississippi.
The Hastings local is done for the day and rests next to the station with its caboose
All NS power running through Minnesota.
A relatively new GEVO slows to a stop under a fiery sunset. This train was a short one, at 3200ft.
Near St. Croix on the Canadian Pacific's former Milwaukee Road main line.
The yard switcher is quiet as the CP 9506 moves coal empties west.
Blasting through Vermillion, this Milwaukee-bound excursion shows no signs of slowing.
The Milwaukee Road 261 crosses the water on one of only three exsisting railroad lift bridges traversing the Mississippi on its way to Milwaukee.
Passing Saint Croix tower.
CP 9631 crosses the Mississippi on the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge in Hastings Minnesota just ahead of the Amtrak
