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Eastbound Ethanol |
Description: |
This eastbound ethanol train waits in the hole at Wayzata. Later this same day I came across this same job on the Union Cutoff over in Saint Paul! |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:03:36 PM |
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Wayzata, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 5455(C44-9W) BNSF 1056(C44-9W) |
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Title: |
LLPX 2205 |
Description: |
Roster view taken at East Minneapolis yard. Why is this unit in UP paint if it isn't a former UP unit? |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/4/2011 3:50:07 PM |
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Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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LLPX 2205(GP38AC) |
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192 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Espee Reminders |
Description: |
I found this pair of ex-Espee ballast hoppers in a string of freight cars near the Amtrak Midway depot. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:03:51 PM |
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Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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RollingStock |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NS 9142 |
Description: |
Roster shot, taken at UP's East Minneapolis yard. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:09:39 PM |
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Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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NS 9142(C40-9W) |
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76 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Both Major Eastern Roads! |
Description: |
Behind the two BNSF units were these representatives from both major eastern railroads. Train was eastbound at Bandana Square. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/4/2011 10:31:37 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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NS 9131(C40-9W) CSX 120(AC44CW) |
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121 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old Logo |
Description: |
Despite the new "Acela" logos on the new signage around Amtrak Midway, two "pointless arrow" logos remain. This one is on the parking lot side. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:04:04 PM |
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Saint Paul, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Title: |
"St. Paul Amtrak" |
Description: |
The other "pointless arrow" on the Amtrak Midway building, this one on the platform side. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:04:18 PM |
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Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Title: |
Sierra Hotel Platform End |
Description: |
I find it interesting this dome car has an open platform end. Note the platform for Amtrak Midway to the left. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:56 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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67 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sierra Hotel Roster View |
Description: |
Roster view of this private car parked on the spur at Amtrak Midway. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:37 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Title: |
Backed Up By Ethanol |
Description: |
As an eastbound ethanol train I'd caught in Wayzata earlier in the day crawls along the Union Cutoff, traffic on Energy Park Drive backs up but good. Time to put it in park and watch, people! |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:22:17 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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50 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Far From The Rockies And A New Paint Job |
Description: |
This ex-Rio Grande unit found itself shut down and lashed to a cut of cars at East Minneapolis yard when I came across it. Train at right is moving. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:29 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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UP 1367(GP40-2) |
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293 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UP 1932 And Two Mystery Units |
Description: |
This is eithier a Superior-bound train or a transfer job. Either way, it was about to depart East Minneapolis yard. Thanks to the "digital zoom" feature on my camera, I was able to get this shot from the Van Cleve Park pedestrian bridge! If the cables weren't there, it would be an even better shot. I was unable to determine the model of the other two units. |
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9/3/2011 Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:14 PM |
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Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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UP 1932(GP60) |
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169 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Wayzata Sub Bridge At Dusk |
Description: |
A portrait of the bridge which carries the BNSF Wayzata sub over Old Man River, as viewed from beneath the Hennepin Avenue suspension bridge. |
Photo Date: |
9/9/2011 Upload Date: 9/10/2011 10:34:40 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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65 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Heads Up |
Description: |
This sign warns the unwary of the presence of remote control locos at Valley Park yard. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:30 PM |
Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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90 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Classy P.O. Box |
Description: |
The Valley Park yard P.O. box has a sign with public information on it. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:24:09 PM |
Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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130 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Valley Park Yard Office |
Description: |
The CNW-era yard office at Valley Park on the old Omaha Road. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 4:35:12 AM |
Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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70 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sign Says It All |
Description: |
The yard sign at the east end of Valley Park. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:50 PM |
Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Title: |
GP 38-2 Trio |
Description: |
A trio of GP 38-2s on point of an eastbound grain job pulled up to the Valley Park yard office where the hogger stopped the train and the crewman walking away got off. Have no idea whan it left because I had to get going on my jaunt to Faribault. |
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9/11/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:31:41 PM |
Location: |
Shakopee, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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UP 675(GP38-2) UP 734(GP38-2) UP 716(GP38-2) |
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302 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Tag! You're it! |
Description: |
A pair of dash nines bracket a newer model GE on the point of an eastbound grain train passing Bandana Square. Note the "tagging" on the long hood of the first unit. |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:24 PM |
Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4358(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4383(C44-9W) |
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311 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Honking Away |
Description: |
Over at Bandana Square, I kept hearing air horns, even engine bells at one point too. Turns out they came courtesey of the hogger of this GE duo over at Midway yard. The engines are inching a cut of COFC cars forward in this shot. Note the footbridge in the distance that also used to cross Kopper's Coke way back when. |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:48:44 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC) |
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186 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
What Midway Intermodal Is All About |
Description: |
This shot gives us a sense of what Midway Intermodal yard is all about: COFC (and TOFC) trafffic! This GE duo was inching a cut of container-on-flats ("baretables" the cars technical name) down the yard a piece as I got this shot. They stopped, resumed as I drove away, then stopped again. Had no time to linger and see what was up, alas. |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:49:02 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC) |
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243 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Beaver And A Dual Flag |
Description: |
A pair of AC4400s -one with the CP "Beaver" logo, the other their old "Dual Flag" job- lead another Canadian Pacific westbound freight past Bandana Square mere minutes after an eastbound BNSF grain job. |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:34:36 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 8543(AC44CW) CP 9511(AC44CW) |
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242 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Headed West Northwest |
Description: |
"Westbound" by Bandana Square is geographically west-northwest on this segment of the former Northern Pacific, now under BNSF operation with CP and UP trackage rights. This westbound freight sports a lead unit with a somewhat charred long hood. Paint that baby, CP! |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:04:42 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 9763(AC44CW) CP 9624(AC44CW) |
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266 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP Thunder! |
Description: |
Its imminent passing announced loud and clear by throaty diesel growls wafted on restless winds, this CP westbound freight finally bursts into the clear and into my camera lense as I take in the show atop the Bandana Square parking garage once more. |
Photo Date: |
9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:04:28 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 9624(AC44CW) CP 9763(AC44CW) |
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247 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Eastbound Grain |
Description: |
Conversely, trains headed "east" at Bandana Square are actually east-southeast geographically speaking. Here's a going-away view of a pair of older GE's bracketing a representative of the newer kind as the hogger wheels the whole shabang on by. |
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9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:40 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4383(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4358(C44-9W) |
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172 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Corporate Images New And Old |
Description: |
The 1990s face of the Canadian Pacific and todays are perfectly captured in the paint jobs of this westbound CP freight passing the parking lots on Bandana Square's east-northeast side. |
Photo Date: |
9/17/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:35:08 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 9511(AC44CW) CP 8543(AC44CW) |
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212 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Boylston Ho! |
Description: |
The fall color trip to Boylston, Wisconsin with Amtrak Heritage unit 156 on point approaches the Fridley Northstar depot. |
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10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:48:27 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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270 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Brute Force |
Description: |
A BNSF and two NS units are the ponies the hogger has as a train eithier arrived or about to depart Northtown pulls up towards the Fridley Northstar depot. |
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10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:15 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4889(C44-9W) NS 9295(C40-9W) NS 8785(C40-9) |
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219 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Fridley Northstar Depot |
Description: |
A portrait of the Northstar commuter rail depot in Fridley on a quiet Saturday morning. |
Photo Date: |
10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:49:02 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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48 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Station Sign Fridley |
Description: |
The sign at the Fridley Northstar depot. |
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10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:55:55 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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42 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling Up To Shove Back |
Description: |
I caught bits on my scanner about this job as it switched it's cars at Northtown, but I could not make out if it was a train just arrived or about to leave. Here it is pulling up by the Northstar depot. |
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10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:40 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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NS 8785(C40-9) NS 9295(C40-9W) BNSF 4889(C44-9W) |
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204 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing Trains |
Description: |
A southbound intermodal rolling into Northtown is about to pass the northbound fall color trip led by Amtrak Heritage Genesis unit 156. |
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10/8/2011 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:00:57 PM |
Location: |
Fridley, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 1112(C44-9W) BNSF 4008(C44-9W) |
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282 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Stepping Onto The Bridge |
Description: |
The Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip steps out onto the grand old Milwaukee Road lift bridge which still bears it's MILW logos. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:29:48 PM |
Location: |
Hastings, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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406 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
What Are You Two Doing Here? |
Description: |
I got this shot of the Midway yard power from the Amtrak/Friends Of The 261 fall color trip to Winona as we eased through Union Yard. However, these units appear to have shoved a cut of COFC cars right down into the Union Pacific's East Minneapolis yard, as the NS units in the left background indicate. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/14/2011 5:02:28 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 1896(SD40-2) BNSF 2716(GP39-2) |
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200 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pumpkins On Parade |
Description: |
Twenty minutes before the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color excursion to Winona left Minneapolis Junction, I caught this westbound freight headed onto the Wayzata sub. |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:54:50 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4918(C44-9W) |
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77 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
More Pumpkins On The Wye |
Description: |
Second of three dash-nines on a westbound headed onto the Wayzata sub. |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:55:16 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 4987(C44-9W) |
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114 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Three Pumpkins Total |
Description: |
These here dash-nines ain't bound for now pumpkin patch, Linus Van Pelt. They're goin' west on the Wayzata sub at Minneapolis Junction! I caught this job before I hopped on the fall color trip to Winona run by Amtrak and the Friends of the 261. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:55:35 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 5196(C44-9W) |
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128 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Meeting At The Bluff |
Description: |
Down by Dayton's Bluff the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color run to Winona passes by a westbound BNSF freight with three GEs (what else?) on the point. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:38:21 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 5347(C44-9W) |
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211 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Last Look At The Fall Color Train |
Description: |
I couldn't resist a final shot of the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip to Winona when we got back to Minneapolis Junction. What a classy train! Looked like the Amtrak of youre met the Milwaukee Road. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:29 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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259 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Head On View |
Description: |
This unit sure looks formidable from head-on! |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:35:11 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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211 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Off At Minneapolis Junction |
Description: |
The passengers detrain at the end of the journey at Minneapolis Junction upon the fall color trip to Winona's return. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:59 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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264 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Milwaukee 261 Mobile! |
Description: |
Snapped this classy pickup truck from the concessions car of the fall color trip to Winona before we left Minneapolis Junction. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:33:20 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Title: |
Green Over Red |
Description: |
As we head towards downtown St. Paul, the fall color trip to Winona passes signals that show green and red. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:30:23 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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48 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Red Signal At Jackson Street |
Description: |
The signals near the Jackson Street roundhouse flash red as the fall color trip to Winona passes by. |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:30:00 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Classy Heritage Job |
Description: |
Side angle view of this classy Amtrak heritage locomotive on point of the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip to Winona. |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:35:33 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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452 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Trailing Pumpkin |
Description: |
The trailing unit on a westbound freight on the old NP rumbles along as the train passes the K-Mart off Maryland Avenue. This job had mostly tank cars so it might have been an ethanol job. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/16/2011 8:12:08 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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BNSF 7316(ES44DC) |
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226 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP 1415 |
Description: |
A roster view of a classy MP15 as it sits near the Pigs Eye diesel shop. So glad CP got the Soo Line; they're more heritage-minded, as the "beaver" logo on the 1415's hood attests. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/19/2011 8:43:04 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 1415(MP15AC) |
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293 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Testing What's Under The (Long) Hood |
Description: |
A worker in the cab of a CP AC4400 at the Pigs Eye diesel shop tests the engine to see how it is. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 12:57:10 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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CP 9615(AC44CW) |
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156 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
A Window Shot |
Description: |
I was leaving the area to go chase a train headed by Dayton's Bluff when this jucier plum arrived from the opposite way! I had to turn around, race ahead of the train like I was in "Unstopbbable", and take this first of three shots of this job entering Pigs Eye. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:22:29 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Locomotives: |
CP 4523(GP38-2) SOO 4434(GP38-2) |
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124 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP 4523 |
Description: |
Roster view of this unique rebuilt unit as it leads a Soo Line unit and a general freight into Pigs Eye yard. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:38:53 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
CP 4523(GP38-2) |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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