AMTK 297 is in charge of Amtrak #8, the eastbound Empire Builder, as it departs Winona, MN in September of 1993. The cool grain elevator would be lost to a fire (arson) a few years later in 1997.

UP 1868 leads a short LTA41, complete with the old Mopac Caboose, Eastward. The train is on the Western banks of the Mighty Minnesota River on the CP River Sub.

Two pieces of nearly obsolete equipment, which have undoubtedly gone an unimaginable amount of miles in their lives, cross paths in Winona, MN.

Union Pacific had a group of scale test cars stored at their yard in Winona, MN in spring 2023. They included a variety of designs and predecessor initials. CNW 263633 was in the group and seemed ... (more)

Unusual scale test/monitoring cars, UP 903039 & 903037, made from tank cars, were spotted in a string of test cars parked at UP's Winona yard. I've seen a lot of test cars in my life, but these ar... (more)

After shoving in the clear at Tower CK, the LTA41 crew puts their train away in UP's Winona Yard. The rail served Malteurop elevator looms in the background. Surprisingly, the UP's island operatio... (more)

CNW Alco RS2 52 works the roads yard at Winona MN in the summer of 1974. This was a former Chicago Great western unit

A sign of things to come, a CP Bensenville, IL-Tracy, MN freight 471, led by KCS power, diverges onto the old DM&E for the trip to Tracy, where it will hand off to the RCPE.

With the way the UP is running away from small time business with the PSR mentality, I was surprised to see way out here in no man's land the UP still has a land locked job at Winona. The CP's loc... (more)

CP's hotshot out of Chicago quietly rumbles thru the town of Winona and past the local power. The 30 mph quite zone thru Winona is still in effect here. This stacker was quite big with a DP mid-t... (more)

Milwaukee Road's former Winona, MN freight house still stands next to the brick passenger station used by Amtrak. The current tenant has added a modern garage door, but lack of attention to the ex... (more)

Amtrak uses this former Milwaukee Road depot at Winona, MN. The station is owned by CP who also appears to make some use of it. The station is set back from the mainline, and the gravel is indicat... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls to a stop at the former Milwaukee Road station in Winona, MN where it will change crews and board passengers for Chicago and intermediate stations.

The Empire Builder leaves Winona, MN station behind AMTK 174 passing by Soo Line caboose no. 30 parked in the small yard east of the depot. The train is about one hour behind schedule and changed ... (more)

CP GP20C-ECO no. 2277 and 2271 relax between assignments with old SOO caboose no. 30 at Winona, MN at a small yard near the old MILW depot.