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By:Tony Held
Dates:1/1/2005 - 9/14/2023
Album Info:Views of the Blue Line, Green Line, and SWLRT.
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Rolling Around The Curve
Title:  Rolling Around The Curve
Description:  A two-car southbound LRT -lead car wrapped, trailing car plain MTC paint- arriving at the Mall of America as viewed from the New York level of the MOA's east parking garage.
Photo Date:  7/23/2012  Upload Date: 7/24/2012 11:27:20 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  30   Comments: 0
Three Car Northbound
Title:  Three Car Northbound
Description:  A three-car northbound LRT with a plain-paint car leading two wrapped ones rounds the curve as it leaves the Mall Of America behind on its trek to Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  7/30/2012  Upload Date: 7/30/2012 11:28:57 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Star Tribune Southbound
Title:  Star Tribune Southbound
Description:  A two-car southbound LRT arrives at Bloomington Central station at 6:14 P.M. on a warm Monday evening in late July. The lead car is wrapped for the Star Tribune; trailing car for Mayo Clinic.
Photo Date:  7/30/2012  Upload Date: 7/31/2012 9:18:18 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 105(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
Colorful Pair Of LRTs
Title:  Colorful Pair Of LRTs
Description:  A colorful two-car southbound LRT rounds the curve into the approach to the MOA station on a warm Monday evening in late July.
Photo Date:  7/30/2012  Upload Date: 7/31/2012 9:17:40 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Health Rides The Rails
Title:  Health Rides The Rails
Description:  The trailing LRT on a two-car southbound at Bloomington Central is decked out for the Mayo Clinic.
Photo Date:  7/30/2012  Upload Date: 7/31/2012 1:48:58 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 115(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Northbound At 28th Avenue
Title:  Northbound At 28th Avenue
Description:  A two-car northbound LRT crosses 28th avenue (and East 82nd street) as it pulls into 28th Avenue station.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 1:49:27 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 112(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  122   Comments: 0
All In Plain Paint!
Title:  All In Plain Paint!
Description:  A southbound LRT rounds the curve on its last mile or two into the Mall of America station. Amazing to see a 3-car set made up of LRTs decked out in just plain MTC paint; usually there is a wrapped car or two in these.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 1:35:27 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Seconds From Arrival
Title:  Seconds From Arrival
Description:  A 3-car southbound Route 55 rounds the sharp curve east of Bloomington Central station just seconds from arrival early on a mild evening in early August.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 1:51:34 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
There's My Old Employer!
Title:  There's My Old Employer!
Description:  A two-car northbound LRT rounds the curve on the first leg of its trip to Target Field station. The lead car is wrapped for my old employer, Cub Foods; trailing car is in plain MTC garb.
Photo Date:  8/20/2012  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:28:53 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Almost To The Next Stop
Title:  Almost To The Next Stop
Description:  A colorful two LRT car northbound train is almost to its next stop at the 28th Avenue station (out of view to the left) after departing the MOA station.
Photo Date:  8/20/2012  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:30:04 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Crossing The Avenue
Title:  Crossing The Avenue
Description:  The driver of the latest LRT train from Minneapolis tip toes the train across 24th avenue upon arrival at the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  8/20/2012  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:30:20 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Round The Bend
Title:  Round The Bend
Description:  A southbound LRT with a plain paint car in the lead and a car wrapped for Sun Country airlines trailing rounds the bend east of the Mall of America on the last leg of its southbound journey from Target Field station.
Photo Date:  8/20/2012  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:30:34 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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LRT And Bus
Title:  LRT And Bus
Description:  Once upon a time, the likes of buses such as the one operated by MVTA in the right foreground banished the streetcar. Now the successor to the streetcar co-exists with the bus in harmony thanks to clear-headed thinking on the part of transit planners as opposed to the rank greed and short sightedness (IMO) which sent the Twin City streetcar system to Valhalla in the 1950s. This two-car LRT is crossing 24th avenue about to arrive at the MOA transit center. The car wrapped for TCF bank is a colorful contrast to the plain paint of the car ahead.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:21:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  70   Comments: 1
There's My Old Employer Again
Title:  There's My Old Employer Again
Description:  The day before I had caught this LRT wrapped for Cub Foods (my old employer) on the curve east of MOA station, and then I caught it again a day later (probably still coupled to the same plain paint LRT trailing it) as it arrived at 28th Avenue station on another northbound run to Minneapolis. Wish the clouds had been out a bit more so it wasn't so backlit.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:21:38 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Backlit LRTs
Title:  Backlit LRTs
Description:  I caught this two car southbound LRT accelerating out of the 28th avenue station. Alas, because of not much cloud cover my vantage point of the parking garage here was something of a double-edged sword that cut both ways as evidenced by how the LRTs are backlit. Still is a good vantage point for LRT photography, though!
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:22:10 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Looking Northwest At University/Cleveland/Transfer
Title:  Looking Northwest At University/Cleveland/Transfer
Description:  A view northwest down the rails of the Central Avenue corridor LRT line at the intersection of University and Cleveland Avenue (south side) and Transfer Road (north side.) Here all that is missing is the finishing touches and then it's LRT time on this avenue that once saw the streetcars of the Twin Cities Rapid Transit company.
Photo Date:  8/25/2012  Upload Date: 8/25/2012 10:34:26 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
New Rails Beneath The Minnesota Commercial
Title:  New Rails Beneath The Minnesota Commercial
Description:  The venerable bridge carrying the Minnesota Commercial over University Avenue once carried trains of MNNR ancestor Minnesota Transfer while streetcars of the Twin City Rapid Transit passed beneath it. Today the Central LRT line is taking the place of the TCRT beneath the bridge. All that is needed here is the power cables and other finishing touches before the first LRTs roll. The MNNR bridge is just east of the intersection of University and Cleveland Avenue/Transfer Road.
Photo Date:  8/25/2012  Upload Date: 8/25/2012 10:34:11 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
Working On The Railroad
Title:  Working On The Railroad
Description:  Service from 28th Street to the Mall of America was replaced by buses due to work being done. Here a crew attends to its repair work beneath grey skies that would brighten by noon. Note the dazzling fall color on the tree to the left of the pickup truck.
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 2:41:14 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  64   Comments: 0
Why You Need To Keep The Crossing Clear
Title:  Why You Need To Keep The Crossing Clear
Description:  "Do not stop on tracks" warn signs adorning the 24th Avenue grade crossing. Sage advice as this close-up of a two-car southbound LRT illustrates. I'd hate to have that bearing down on me!
Photo Date:  10/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/28/2012 5:31:56 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  72   Comments: 0
Lucky Shot
Title:  Lucky Shot
Description:  The same plain-paint LRT set I photographed southbound I bagged again with a lucky shot as I waited at the light by 28th Avenue station as the driver now took it north.
Photo Date:  10/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/28/2012 5:39:36 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 124(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
First Catch
Title:  First Catch
Description:  The first LRT I caught on this outing was this two-car southbound set arriving at the MOA transit center.
Photo Date:  10/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/28/2012 5:31:34 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  47   Comments: 0
Southbound By Health Partners
Title:  Southbound By Health Partners
Description:  The driver of a two-car southbound LRT in plain MTC paint leaves the Health Partners building behind as it arrives at 28th Avenue after departing Bloomington Central.
Photo Date:  10/28/2012  Upload Date: 10/28/2012 5:38:06 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 108(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
Wow
Title:  Wow
Description:  A southbound three-LRT car Route 55 makes an impressive sight as it rounds the curve east of the Mall of America almost to its last southbound stop.
Photo Date:  11/12/2012  Upload Date: 11/12/2012 10:27:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
Ab LRT And The 28th Avenue Station
Title:  Ab LRT And The 28th Avenue Station
Description:  A zoom shot from the MOA parking garage frames a southbound Route 55 departing 28th Avenue station as well as the station itself and the parking garage next door to it.
Photo Date:  11/12/2012  Upload Date: 11/12/2012 10:26:44 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  42   Comments: 0
Splitting The Signals
Title:  Splitting The Signals
Description:  A Target Field-bound two-car Route 55 splits the signals as it eases out of the grounds of the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  11/12/2012  Upload Date: 11/12/2012 10:21:36 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Departing 28th Avenue
Title:  Departing 28th Avenue
Description:  A southbound two-car LRT departs 28th Avenue on the last lap to the Mall of America on a chilly Monday afternoon.
Photo Date:  11/12/2012  Upload Date: 11/12/2012 10:21:56 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
Well That Is New
Title:  Well That Is New
Description:  A northbound Route 55 rounds the curve near MOA almost to 28th Avenue station. The trailing "wrapped" car is promoting the musical based on the 2003 flick "Elf" that is in production at the Ordway.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 6:45:04 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
Second Car
Title:  Second Car
Description:  Here is the second LRT on a southbound three-unit Route 55 just after it arrived at the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 12:50:23 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 107(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
Almost To The Bumper Posts
Title:  Almost To The Bumper Posts
Description:  Here comes a three-LRT Route 55 as the driver eases it up to the bumper posts at the Mall of America transit center.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 12:50:04 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 107(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
Just Out Of 28th Avenue
Title:  Just Out Of 28th Avenue
Description:  A southbound 2-car Route 55 is captured just out of 28th Avenue on its last southbound lap.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 6:44:44 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
LRT At MOA Transit Center
Title:  LRT At MOA Transit Center
Description:  A view from the third-unit of a southbound Route 55 just after it arrived at the MOA Transit center. Meanwhile the driver for the northbound trip to Target Field takes their post.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 12:50:49 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 113(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
"Lindbergh!  Lindbergh!"
Title:  "Lindbergh! Lindbergh!"
Description:  Every time I see Charles Lindbergh's name I think of the scene in "The Spirit of St. Louis" where the crowd outside the hangar his plane is parked in at Le Bourget, Paris, is chanting his name in applause for his record-setting flight. Now the man who wowed the world in 1927 gives his name to the first terminal of Minneapolis/St. Paul International as well as that of the associated LRT station beneath.
Photo Date:  12/27/2012  Upload Date: 12/28/2012 2:37:38 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  41   Comments: 0
Northbound Is In!
Title:  Northbound Is In!
Description:  Passengers disembark from the northbound Route 55 at the Lindbergh Terminal Station.
Photo Date:  12/27/2012  Upload Date: 12/28/2012 2:38:08 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 106(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Route 55 At Lindbergh
Title:  Route 55 At Lindbergh
Description:  The first of a two-car LRT set in plain MTC paint northbound at Lindbergh Terminal station.
Photo Date:  12/27/2012  Upload Date: 12/28/2012 2:38:29 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Southbound Is In!
Title:  Southbound Is In!
Description:  The scene just after a soubbound Route 55 arrived at Lindbergh Terminal. I had to take the shot quick so I could get aboard for my trip back to 28th Avenue Station where my car awaited me.
Photo Date:  12/27/2012  Upload Date: 12/28/2012 2:38:50 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 111(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
Here Comes My Last Train Ride Of The Year
Title:  Here Comes My Last Train Ride Of The Year
Description:  I took my last train ride of the year on this date from 28th Avenue station to Lindbergh Terminal and return. Here the southbound Route 55 of my journey arrives in fine style at Lindbergh.
Photo Date:  12/27/2012  Upload Date: 12/28/2012 2:39:11 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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The Overhead Is Up!
Title:  The Overhead Is Up!
Description:  Last time I was here the overhead was not yet strung along this stretch of the Central LRT line. Now the overhead wire dips under the MNNR bridge.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 10:28:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Bridge,Transit,Track
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"Save Big Money ..."
Title:  "Save Big Money ..."
Description:  The Central LRT as it looks passing Menards on Central Avenue.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 10:34:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Track
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
It's Coming Together Nice
Title:  It's Coming Together Nice
Description:  The Central LRT line sure is coming together nice. Here is how it looks down by Transfer/Cleveland/Central.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 10:29:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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"To Downtown Minneapolis"
Title:  "To Downtown Minneapolis"
Description:  The first car on a northbound two-car set stopped at Minnehaha Park/50th Street station on a grey but mild April afternoon. The platform sign in the center background makes an appropriate picture caption.
Photo Date:  4/8/2013  Upload Date: 4/9/2013 12:04:40 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  MTC 110(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
"Golden Light" LRT
Title:  "Golden Light" LRT
Description:  The second LRT on a two-car northbound LRT beginning its departure from Minnehaha Park/50th Street is "wrapped" for Golden Light beer. The bright colors stand in stark contrast to the grey skies above.
Photo Date:  4/8/2013  Upload Date: 4/9/2013 12:05:26 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit
Locomotives:  MTC 111(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Looking east down 4th Street
Title:  Looking east down 4th Street
Description:  Here we are looking east down 4th Street along the Green (aka Central) LRT corridor. The Union Depot stop is right behind me; the St. Paul Farmer's market is visible in the distance.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:36:12 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Track
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Union Depot LRT stop view one
Title:  Union Depot LRT stop view one
Description:  The west side of the almost-completed Green (aka Central) LRT station stop at Saint Paul Union Depot.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:34:54 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Transit
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Views:  25   Comments: 0
Union Depot LRT stop view two
Title:  Union Depot LRT stop view two
Description:  The east side of the soon to be completed Union Depot Green (aka Central) Corridor Union Depot station stop.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:35:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Transit
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
Man I like it when LRTs are this quiet!
Title:  Man I like it when LRTs are this quiet!
Description:  I love riding the light rail, especially when the trains are as quiet as the one I took from 28th Avenue to Humphrey Terminal on Memorial Day 2013 bound for Ft. Snelling National Cemetery to thank our vets and pay my respects to our dead.
Photo Date:  5/27/2013  Upload Date: 5/28/2013 3:33:53 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Passenger,Action
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Views:  23   Comments: 0
New LRTS at Humphrey Terminal Station
Title:  New LRTS at Humphrey Terminal Station
Description:  I wonder if the riders at left have gotten used to these new babies yet? They sure are photogenic, let me tell you!
Photo Date:  5/27/2013  Upload Date: 5/27/2013 7:04:33 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MTC 207(LRV)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
New LRTs!
Title:  New LRTs!
Description:  With the new LRT route to St. Paul soon to open, it looks like Metro Transit has been out LRT shopping: here comes a northbound two-car LRT bound for Target Field as it arrives at Humphrey Terminal. Flags and traffic in background are for Ft. Snelling National Cemetery on this grey Memorial Day 2013.
Photo Date:  5/27/2013  Upload Date: 5/27/2013 7:04:05 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MTC 202(LRV)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Disembarking at Humphrey Terminal Station
Title:  Disembarking at Humphrey Terminal Station
Description:  Passengers aboard the second LRV on this southbound MOA-bound train disembark at the Humphrey Terminal station on Memorial Day 2013.
Photo Date:  5/27/2013  Upload Date: 5/28/2013 3:33:22 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Action
Locomotives:  MTC 119(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Older models at Humphrey
Title:  Older models at Humphrey
Description:  Here comes a MOA-bound LRT made up of two of the older Flexity Swift LRV's arriving at Humphrey Terminal.
Photo Date:  5/27/2013  Upload Date: 5/28/2013 3:32:57 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MTC 126(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  95   Comments: 0
"Do LRT Right!"
Title:  "Do LRT Right!"
Description:  The pro-trail advocates have littered the Kenilworth Corridor with signs calling for no co-location of both Twin Cities & Western freight and Southwest Corridor light rail trains along the Kenilworth Corridor in Minneapolis. Their rationale is that no co-location would save the Kenilworth Trail, which stretches from Cedar Lake to a junction with the Midtown Greenway near Lake Calhoun. A trail which runs on former Minneapolis & St. Louis freight yard land. This sign can be found north of the 21st Street crossing along the corridor.
Photo Date:  9/8/2013  Upload Date: 9/9/2013 6:56:13 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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