Author: Mark Muraski
Passing the Science Museum and downtown Saint Paul.
A string of matching Soo Line locomotives sits outside CP's Saint Paul shops.
A pair of BNSF GE's lead a string!of baretables past Dayton's Bluff. The Lafayette Bridge is at the top of the photo.
One of many former Soo locomotives at the shops in Saint Paul on this bright winter day.
UP 811 idles as ILSX 320 sits in yhe background.
Two UP SD40's slowly bring a train past downtown Saint Paul.
Sitting under the US-52 bridge, destined for the Roseport coke plant. The MRL units are on lease to the Indiana Railroad.
One of the NREX units recently leased by CP, sitting outside their Saint Paul engine shops.
A very coloful lashup waits at Hoffman.
CP Shakopee Job
The Transfer 1 waits as the adjacent train undergoes a crew change.
First time I can remember seeing one of these that wasn't confined to a yard.
NS 9748 leads a renumbered SD60M past two other westbounds sitting at Hoffman.
My third renumbered SD60M.
Sitting outside the CP shops.
A pair of BNSF geeps idle in the UP Belt Yard.
Switching autoracks at BNSF's transfer facility near downtown Saint Paul.
Switching the Red Rock industrial spur.
Switching the Peavey elevator on the Red Rock industrial spur.
A recently refurbished SD40-3 sits by the hump tower at Pigs Eye.
Two GEs lead a mixed freight Westbound out of Pigs Eye. Trailing unit is BNSF 881.
A pair of NS units idle in the UP's Belt Yard. Second unit is #6677.
Quite the lash-up waiting at Pigs Eye; a SD60 (EMDX 9005), B40-8W(BNSF 544), AC6000CW(CSXT 5004), and B40-8(BNSF 8635).
Doublestacks pass under the Warner Road overpass on their way East. Trailing unit is BNSF 8033.
Trailing units are BNSF 4533, FURX 8118 & BNSF 1103.
EMDX #3 winds its way towards Dayton's Bluff. Trailing units are EMDX 9034 & FURX 8109.
CP 8814 derailed last April up in Alberta. Ouch...
Close up of the Conductors side of CP 8814.
Westbound. Trailing units are BNSF 5230 & 816.
BNSF 8177, the only SD60M in H1, trails an almost matching SD40-2 Eastbound past Dayton's Bluff.
A BNSF coal train departs, a CP train undergoes a crew change, and another CP train waits for its turn.
Definately in need of a touch-up.
Entering the Belt Yard.
Eastbound. Trailing is CEFX 1029.