Three GP's have 92 cars under control cruising down Shortline Hill, passing the classic Griswold crossings that are due to be replaced soon.

A trio of UP SD9043MAC's crawls across the almost 100 year old Robert Street lift bridge in downtown St. Paul. It was another 65 degree day in the Twin Cities.

Griswalds watch Amtrak 8 cruise down Shortline Hill on the most wonderful day of the Winter; we warmed up well into the 60's!

Two GE's make easy work of the small hill into Union Junction, leading a 21 car empty grain train.

Light power of 4 ancient GE's and 1 rebuilt ALCO returns West after delivering the sand train to Pigseye Yard.

The engineer of BNSF's U STNSAP0 45T (Stanley, ND to Sapulpa, OK) has a healthy task of holding back 12,854 tons of Baaken crude oil on the steep grade out of the Westminister tunnels.

CP 9353 makes its first trip for owner Canadian Pacific on the head end of train #198, seen here on BNSF trackage in the Twin Cites.

Amtrak's Empire Builder finally reaches the Twin Cities station in St. Paul after a couple days of fiasco in the form of locomotive problems and weather out west. Apparently, the BNSF unit was on... (more)

Sunrise Empire Builder: Perfectly on time, the eastbound Empire Builder comes through downtown St. Paul while meeting the rising sun along the Mississippi River.

Not one, or two, but three Oakway SD60s roar through Saint Anthony and under Raymond Ave as they lead the H-GFDBRC. My videos can be see at: http://www.youtube.com/user/sd457500

With less than a week away from the official close of the Ford Motor Company's Twin Cities Assembly Plant, SOO 4598 leads the Ford Hauler with one of the last train loads of Ranger parts.

The TCWR's St. Paul Turn heads up Short Line Hill, passing the griswolds at Oneida St. A scene that's played out for several years but is coming to an end with new signal bases in.

The Minnesota Commercial completes another weekly sand train from the MNNR Yard A to the BNSF Daytons Bluff Yard having just uncoupled from the gondolas.

The Twin Cities & Western St. Paul Turn takes its first step towards heading west from completing its work in St. Paul by rounding the curve past Fordson Junction. This train would get its pictur... (more)

A westbound Empire Builder with AMTK 207, AMTK 54 and AMTK 185 at St Paul's Midway Depot.