trains

This innocuous building along the shores of Lake Minnetonka hides the ultimate kids day activity, a miniature railroad inside of a garden!

Big Boy No. 4014 is on the 'road' again this summer and fans of the steam locomotive can see it down in Iowa during three days in September

One 18-year-old from Dilworth Minnesota knew he wanted to work with trains early on. Now at 18, he is conducting a BNSF locomotive across Minnesota and North Dakota.

Commuters in East St. Cloud had to find another route Tuesday morning after a truck got stuck on the railroad tracks.

Federal investigators reviewing a fatal railroad accident in Minneapolis say several safety measures were not followed by the work crew.

In 2013 an oil train derailment killed 47 people in Lac Megantic Quebec and leveled a downtown overnight.....The same Bakken Crude Oil passes through backyards in St. Cloud. WJON investigated: does St. Cloud have a plan for an oil train derailment?

This week in our "Behind the Scenes" series on WJON, we climb aboard the Great Northern Railway and see how the railroad shaped the city of Waite Park.

Railroad documents released by the state Department of Public Safety show about 50 trains carrying crude oil from North Dakota are passing through Minnesota each week.