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By:Steve J Rush
Dates:1/1/1968 - 1/1/1970
Album Info:Northern Pacific Railway--- "Main Street of the NorthWest"
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NP RDC
Title:  NP RDC
Description:  Railfan trip, I believe that this was on the NP "short line" at or around Jay Cooke State Park between Carlton and Duluth. We had two RDC-3's with the coach ends back to back, seating for 98 passengers.
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 8:56:17 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP B-42(RDC3)
Views:  1312   Comments: 4
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  People dressed differently "in those days" or who's watching who or what?!
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 8:45:39 AM
Location:  Cloquet, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  912   Comments: 1
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  the backside of a semaphore signal at stop
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:19:00 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  898   Comments: 2
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  out on the High Iron and a clear block for rail fans!
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:16:16 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP B-42(RDC3)
Views:  533   Comments: 0
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  in a lot of places and to a lot of people this signal would have been called by its route signal name "Diverging Clear". But on the NP and the SP&S they were not route signals but speed signals. In this case the signal was called "Medium Clear". It was an indication as to speed and not the route to be used thru an interlocking. Two ways that different people in different places did and dared to think about the same things differently! So it once was but is no more! Today everything has to be the same for everybody!
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:29:47 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP B-42(RDC3)
Views:  504   Comments: 2
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  photo shoot in the curve
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:20:45 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP B-42(RDC3)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
NP RDC trip
Title:  NP RDC trip
Description:  Watching for signals
Photo Date:  10/1/1967  Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:22:38 AM
Location:  Carlton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP B-42(RDC3)
Views:  465   Comments: 0
NP 902
Title:  NP 902
Description:  @Mississippi Street once again is the St Paul- Duluth/ Superior road power!!! An Alco RS11, an Alco RS2/3 &a EMD GP7/9--- lots of different engine types here!!! i sure would have liked 2have seen them out on the road without the electric poles in the way!!! Notice the steam engine bell on the middle unit behind the diagonal number boards- the NP had class!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 10:36:52 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 902(RS11)
Views:  2248   Comments: 0
NP 276
Title:  NP 276
Description:  In the Northern Pacific coach yard near the St Paul Union Depot i found this M of W track test car!!! You can see the commissary building that supplied the passenger trains with the things that they needed--- perhaps you can read the sign from the back side!!! The bridge is 3rd street and it runs from Kellogg Blvd in downtown St Paul up to the top of the river bluffs and the Indian Mounds Park!!! the view of the mighty Mississippi River still is great from there but the different railroads that i was just being to learn about are now gone--- i wish that i could go back &take the pictures that i never did!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1968  Upload Date: 9/25/2007 7:11:05 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1148   Comments: 0
NP 1590
Title:  NP 1590
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1968  Upload Date: 9/20/2007 9:18:21 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  2524   Comments: 1
NP 276
Title:  NP 276
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1968  Upload Date: 9/20/2007 9:24:13 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  2210   Comments: 0
NP 21148
Title:  NP 21148
Description:  outside steel braced wooden box car in grain service?! Perhaps somewhere in the grain elevators around Minneapolis Jct south of Northtown!!! From the snow one can see that it is winter and the "grain is running"--- the new harvest is coming into the elevators from Minnesota &North Dakota!!! Notice the early colored bar code stripes!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1968  Upload Date: 9/20/2007 9:28:43 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives: 
Views:  925   Comments: 1
NP 862
Title:  NP 862
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/17/2007 3:21:13 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 862(RS3)
Views:  940   Comments: 0
NP 117
Title:  NP 117
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/17/2007 4:10:20 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 117(SW9)
Views:  1883   Comments: 5
NP 6010A and NP 6003D
Title:  NP 6010A and NP 6003D
Description:  Date Approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/21/2007 4:43:55 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 6010A(F7A) NP 6003D(F3A)
Views:  2660   Comments: 1
NP 803
Title:  NP 803
Description:  east end Allouez resting among the grain elevators near the NP iron ore dock in Superior, Wisconsin
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 11/15/2007 9:59:26 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 803(RS1)
Views:  2728   Comments: 4
NP 858 and NP 713
Title:  NP 858 and NP 713
Description:  Date approximate - NP Rices Point Yard.
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 10:38:07 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 858(RS3) NP 713(S4)
Views:  2622   Comments: 0
NP 6700C
Title:  NP 6700C
Description:  Between trains @the Mississippi Street roundhouse/ NP passenger power--- "Main Street of the Northwest"!!!
Photo Date:  8/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/17/2007 3:09:32 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6700C(F9A)
Views:  2085   Comments: 2
NP 859
Title:  NP 859
Description:  "From the bridge on the other side of the engine house"--- perhaps there is more here than you might first notice!!! Is that an F3 "B" unit in the engine consist?! You can just barely make out the air tanks for the train &engine brakes on the top of the GP7/9 if you know where 2look!!! This made room 4larger fuel tanks!!! And those might even be 40ft wooden box cars--- i can't really say for sure/ this was 40 years ago, another place &time much different from 2day!!! No personal desk top computers &photo editers then!!!
Photo Date:  12/23/1968  Upload Date: 8/16/2007 11:19:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 859(RS3) NP 6002B(F3B) NP 6010B(F7B) NP 262(GP9)
Views:  2596   Comments: 1
NP 906
Title:  NP 906
Description:  Mississippi Street was home to the passenger power for North Coast Limited and Mainstreeter which ran west to Seattle and also the St Paul/ Duluth freight power was serviced here--- it was a place where it was easy to find Alco RS2's/ RS3's (if you could tell the difference between them!!!). Also Alco RS 11's could often be found here--- But it is all gone now - the diesel shop and the roundhouse and "the glory of it" were torn down years ago and the land sold!!! If you went there today you would have no idea of what was once there--- many things have changed!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1969  Upload Date: 8/14/2007 10:01:34 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 906(RS11)
Views:  2065   Comments: 0
NP 6005C
Title:  NP 6005C
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1969  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 3:43:50 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6005C(F3B)
Views:  1518   Comments: 1
NP 1265
Title:  NP 1265
Description:  Date Approximate
Photo Date:  6/1/1969  Upload Date: 8/6/2009 3:38:00 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  568   Comments: 0
NP 1265
Title:  NP 1265
Description:  Date Approximate
Photo Date:  6/1/1969  Upload Date: 8/6/2009 3:34:17 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  300   Comments: 0
NP 6703C
Title:  NP 6703C
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:35:03 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6703C(F9AM)
Views:  1557   Comments: 0
NP 6513A
Title:  NP 6513A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:30:01 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6513A(F7A)
Views:  565   Comments: 0
NP 6513A
Title:  NP 6513A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:11:25 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 6513A(F7A)
Views:  2060   Comments: 0
NP 6513A
Title:  NP 6513A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:19:06 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6513A(F7A)
Views:  826   Comments: 0
NP 6507A
Title:  NP 6507A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:40:17 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 6507A(F7A)
Views:  1116   Comments: 0
NP 6507A
Title:  NP 6507A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 3:13:40 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6507A(F7A)
Views:  1810   Comments: 2
NP 6502A
Title:  NP 6502A
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 3:17:34 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NP 6502A(F3A)
Views:  1810   Comments: 0
NP 6513C
Title:  NP 6513C
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 3:03:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6513C(F7A)
Views:  1752   Comments: 1
NP 902
Title:  NP 902
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/23/2008 1:03:01 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 902(RS11)
Views:  1783   Comments: 1
NP 3619 and NP 2805
Title:  NP 3619 and NP 2805
Description:  at Northtown before the BN merger!
Photo Date:  7/15/1969  Upload Date: 11/6/2007 3:10:50 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 3619(SD45) NP 2805(U28C) NP 2811(U28C)
Views:  5443   Comments: 0
NP 6513C
Title:  NP 6513C
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2008 1:27:22 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 6513C(F7A)
Views:  1070   Comments: 1
NP 6710B
Title:  NP 6710B
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/1969  Upload Date: 6/19/2008 1:22:31 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 6710B(F9B)
Views:  1358   Comments: 3
NP 861 and NP 902
Title:  NP 861 and NP 902
Description:  seen better days?!
Photo Date:  10/15/1969  Upload Date: 1/10/2008 8:10:38 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 861(RS3) NP 902(RS11)
Views:  1999   Comments: 1
NP 861
Title:  NP 861
Description:  Back at Mississippi Street again with an Alco RS2/3 and an Alco RS11. You can see the diagonal number boards and the classification lights but only just barely the old steam engine bell!!! i have talked about these things in other pictures--- these kind of power consists normally ran between St Paul and Duluth/ Superior!!!
Photo Date:  10/15/1969  Upload Date: 9/25/2007 7:03:34 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 861(RS3) NP 902(RS11)
Views:  1968   Comments: 0
On the turntable at Northtown
Title:  On the turntable at Northtown
Description:  But what happened to the steam engine bell?!
Photo Date:  10/15/1969  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 3:05:48 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NP 324(GP9) NP 327(GP9)
Views:  4035   Comments: 2
power for Extra 378 west at Northtown
Title:  power for Extra 378 west at Northtown
Description:  NP 378 at Northtown followed by 3 "b" units 1 f3 and 2 f7's!!! Note the steam engine bell and the white class lamps above the number boards.... meaning an extra train created by the dispatcher to be given what rights that he the dispatcher might so wish to give!!! Running as Extra 378 west out of Northtown on the double track across Minnesota... they could become superior to a passenger train or a second section of a passenger train which would then display green class lamps for a second section following... or perhaps they might even run in the place of a passenger train thus fulfilling its schedule!!! Any of this could be possible--- if the dispatcher wished and willed for it to be so!!! And this is how it was, in the days before computers!!!
Photo Date:  10/15/1969  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 2:25:24 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 378(GP18) NP 6008b(F7B)
Views:  3761   Comments: 1
NP 6008B
Title:  NP 6008B
Description:  sure wish that I could make out the middle two engine numbers!
Photo Date:  10/15/1969  Upload Date: 6/15/2008 2:42:46 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 6008b(F7B) NP 378(GP18)
Views:  2613   Comments: 3
BN 911
Title:  BN 911
Description:  a cold day on Lake Superior after the merger. Was the BN a great railroad?! While I thought so after they hired me as a dispatcher! And so I stayed for 30 years! But some would say that with the merger the glory of the former things began to fade, a lot of things changed very quickly!
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/18/2009 8:12:24 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  BN 911(S2)
Views:  795   Comments: 1
NP 371 and NP 858
Title:  NP 371 and NP 858
Description:  Going by the CB&Q tower at Division Street. Transfer to the CB&Q, Milwaukee and CGW at Hoffman Avenue
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 11/6/2007 2:31:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 371(GP9) NP 858(RS3)
Views:  2345   Comments: 2
NP 6706C and NP 171
Title:  NP 6706C and NP 171
Description:  "Waiting 2b of service" on the North Coast Limited or the Mainstreeter but probably not 3&11 which was the Mandan/ International Falls train that was combined until after crossing the Mississippi River @Little Falls!!! You can tell because this engine is facing east instead of west- the interlocking signals govern westbound traffic to Northtown &Mississippi Street Yard. 2switch engines wait 4their next assignment- notice that unlike on the CB&Q they can face either direction!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/16/2007 10:45:19 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NP 6706C(F9A) NP 171(SW1200)
Views:  2126   Comments: 0
NP 863
Title:  NP 863
Description:  After many miles and many years of service--- having seen better days! Once again notice the steam engine bell and the diagonal number boards--- a hint of "the glory that once was" before the huge railroads of corporate America that we have today! Maybe you know what I'm saying- maybe you were also there in those days- before it become just more of the same old thing! "It's NOT the same railroad that i once knew and loved"!
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/14/2007 10:07:56 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 863(RS3)
Views:  1606   Comments: 1
NP 913 and NP 712
Title:  NP 913 and NP 712
Description:  "@Rices Point"/ the NP yard in Duluth--- more steam engine bells on the Alco's!!! But hiding in the back is perhaps an EMD F3 "A" unit in freight colors--- this is hard to see without a photo editer 2pull out some of the darkness!!!
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/16/2007 11:47:23 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  NP 913(RS11) NP 712(S2)
Views:  2027   Comments: 1
NP 1318, NP 1329, and NP 1717
Title:  NP 1318, NP 1329, and NP 1717
Description:  Date Approximate
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/6/2009 3:45:40 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  664   Comments: 0
NP 1085 and NP 1398
Title:  NP 1085 and NP 1398
Description:  Date Approximate
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/6/2009 3:41:24 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  893   Comments: 0
NP 1331
Title:  NP 1331
Description:  Date Approximate
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/6/2009 3:29:08 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  505   Comments: 0


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