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4/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tony Held
Dates:1/1/2002 - 8/3/2014
Album Info:A collection of train action and other rail scenes from around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Enjoy!
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Eastbound Ethanol
Title:  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!
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:03:36 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5455(C44-9W) BNSF 1056(C44-9W)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
LLPX 2205
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?
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 3:50:07 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  LLPX 2205(GP38AC)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Espee Reminders
Title:  Espee Reminders
Description:  I found this pair of ex-Espee ballast hoppers in a string of freight cars near the Amtrak Midway depot.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:03:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
NS 9142
Title:  NS 9142
Description:  Roster shot, taken at UP's East Minneapolis yard.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:09:39 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  NS 9142(C40-9W)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Both Major Eastern Roads!
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.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 10:31:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  NS 9131(C40-9W) CSX 120(AC44CW)
Views:  121   Comments: 0
Old Logo
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.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:04:04 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  57   Comments: 0
"St. Paul Amtrak"
Title:  "St. Paul Amtrak"
Description:  The other "pointless arrow" on the Amtrak Midway building, this one on the platform side.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:04:18 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Sierra Hotel Platform End
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.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:56 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  67   Comments: 0
Sierra Hotel Roster View
Title:  Sierra Hotel Roster View
Description:  Roster view of this private car parked on the spur at Amtrak Midway.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Backed Up By Ethanol
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!
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:22:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  50   Comments: 0
Far From The Rockies And A New Paint Job
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.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 1367(GP40-2)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
UP 1932 And Two Mystery Units
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.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:14 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 1932(GP60)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
The Wayzata Sub Bridge At Dusk
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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Views:  65   Comments: 0
Heads Up
Title:  Heads Up
Description:  This sign warns the unwary of the presence of remote control locos at Valley Park yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:30 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Classy P.O. Box
Title:  Classy P.O. Box
Description:  The Valley Park yard P.O. box has a sign with public information on it.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:24:09 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  130   Comments: 0
Valley Park Yard Office
Title:  Valley Park Yard Office
Description:  The CNW-era yard office at Valley Park on the old Omaha Road.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 4:35:12 AM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
Sign Says It All
Title:  Sign Says It All
Description:  The yard sign at the east end of Valley Park.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:50 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  52   Comments: 0
GP 38-2 Trio
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.
Photo Date:  9/11/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:31:41 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 675(GP38-2) UP 734(GP38-2) UP 716(GP38-2)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
Tag!  You're it!
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.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:24 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4358(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4383(C44-9W)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Honking Away
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.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:48:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
What Midway Intermodal Is All About
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.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:49:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Beaver And A Dual Flag
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.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:34:36 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 8543(AC44CW) CP 9511(AC44CW)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
Headed West Northwest
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!
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:04:42 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 9763(AC44CW) CP 9624(AC44CW)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
CP Thunder!
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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Locomotives:  CP 9624(AC44CW) CP 9763(AC44CW)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
Eastbound Grain
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.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:40 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4383(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4358(C44-9W)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Corporate Images New And Old
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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Locomotives:  CP 9511(AC44CW) CP 8543(AC44CW)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
Boylston Ho!
Title:  Boylston Ho!
Description:  The fall color trip to Boylston, Wisconsin with Amtrak Heritage unit 156 on point approaches the Fridley Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:48:27 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Brute Force
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.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:15 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4889(C44-9W) NS 9295(C40-9W) NS 8785(C40-9)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
Fridley Northstar Depot
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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Views:  48   Comments: 0
Station Sign Fridley
Title:  Station Sign Fridley
Description:  The sign at the Fridley Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:55:55 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Pulling Up To Shove Back
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.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:40 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  NS 8785(C40-9) NS 9295(C40-9W) BNSF 4889(C44-9W)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
Passing Trains
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.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:00:57 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1112(C44-9W) BNSF 4008(C44-9W)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Stepping Onto The Bridge
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:29:48 PM
Location:  Hastings, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  406   Comments: 0
What Are You Two Doing Here?
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/14/2011 5:02:28 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1896(SD40-2) BNSF 2716(GP39-2)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
Pumpkins On Parade
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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Locomotives:  BNSF 4918(C44-9W)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
More Pumpkins On The Wye
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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Locomotives:  BNSF 4987(C44-9W)
Views:  114   Comments: 0
Three Pumpkins Total
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:55:35 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5196(C44-9W)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
Meeting At The Bluff
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:38:21 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5347(C44-9W)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Last Look At The Fall Color Train
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Head On View
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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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Off At Minneapolis Junction
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:59 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  264   Comments: 0
Milwaukee 261 Mobile!
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:33:20 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  73   Comments: 1
Green Over Red
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.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:30:23 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  48   Comments: 0
Red Signal At Jackson Street
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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Views:  61   Comments: 0
Classy Heritage Job
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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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  452   Comments: 1
Trailing Pumpkin
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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Locomotives:  BNSF 7316(ES44DC)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
CP 1415
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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Locomotives:  CP 1415(MP15AC)
Views:  293   Comments: 1
Testing What's Under The (Long) Hood
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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Locomotives:  CP 9615(AC44CW)
Views:  156   Comments: 1
A Window Shot
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)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
CP 4523
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
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Locomotives:  CP 4523(GP38-2)
Views:  118   Comments: 0


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