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Viewing Album:  Osceola and St Croix Valley
 
By:Steve J Rush
Dates:8/18/2009 - 8/18/2009
Album Info:Osceola and St Croix Valley Railroad--- It was late in the day when we stopped in the yard at the old Soo Line depot in Osceola, Wisconsin!!! We were on our way home from seeing "the grandkids" in Minneapolis and were heading back to the farmland and the small towns of west central Wisconsin in the tree covered limestone hills east of the great river valley of the Upper Mississippi that with the St Croix River divides between Minnesota and Wisconsin!!! It was NOT the way that I remember things because the last time that I had been here was 40+ years ago--- before Amtrak and the Burlington Northern!!! Was it better now or then?! Perhaps in someways yes and in someways no!!! It was/ is a long drive, so I feel "lucky" when I can get a break and let Beth take a few pictures!!! It would seem that she is pretty good!!! She likes trains and she likes me--- it just can't get much better than this!!!
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BN(sf) 6327
Title:  BN(sf) 6327
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:04 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Great Northern private car
Title:  Great Northern private car
Description:  Notice the horns above the open platform--- need to take a trip one day on one of the fall colored leaf dinner trains!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:07 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  1075   Comments: 1
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:07 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  94   Comments: 1
It's good to still be here
Title:  It's good to still be here
Description:  if you might happen to notice the initials, i believe that they read MNTX71!!! the Osceola and St Croix Valley is part of the Minnesota Transportation Museum--- and a BN caboose is a BN caboose!!! There are NOT many left!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:08 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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railway post office
Title:  railway post office
Description:  and now they want 44 cents for a first class letter--- that is until the price goes up again!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:09 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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waiting for passengers
Title:  waiting for passengers
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:09 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
there are no words
Title:  there are no words
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:09 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Just a nice picture
Title:  Just a nice picture
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:10 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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we'll be back
Title:  we'll be back
Description:  someday we'll take a trip
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:10 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:11 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:11 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:12 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Clear board---
Title:  Clear board---
Description:  no orders from the dispatcher--- High Ball!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:12 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:12 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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then suddenly
Title:  then suddenly
Description:  Big Sky Blue--- a new vision of greater things to come?!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:13 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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a new image
Title:  a new image
Description:  streamlined and racey--- some liked it and some did not--- BUT to have and see a Great Northern goat is still a good thing!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:14 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  78   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:14 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:15 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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and then there was pride
Title:  and then there was pride
Description:  if you were there "in that place and at that time" perhaps you will remember just what it is that i'm attempting to say!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:15 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  104   Comments: 4
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:16 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  86   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:16 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
the railroad was a good one
Title:  the railroad was a good one
Description:  so it was when i hired out in the summer of 1978 and retired from the dispatcher's office 30 years later with 41 years service!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:16 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  89   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:17 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  68   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:17 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:18 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Soo Line train order signal
Title:  Soo Line train order signal
Description:  Clear board east and west--- no orders from the dispatcher!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:18 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  164   Comments: 3
High above the depot
Title:  High above the depot
Description:  the train order signal told train and enginemen if there were any orders from the dispatcher!!! if this signal was NOT clear then a train would NOT leave without a clearance from the operator issued by the dispatcher which might or might not contain any orders which could be a meet with an opposing train!!! when running in opposite directions on single track this would be a signal that you would NOT want to miss!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:19 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:19 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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a "little bit" of history
Title:  a "little bit" of history
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:20 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:20 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  86   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
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Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:21 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
we did NOT want to say goodbye
Title:  we did NOT want to say goodbye
Description:  Someday we will have to return to this place and time!!!
Photo Date:  8/18/2009  Upload Date: 8/26/2009 3:47:21 AM
Location:  Osceola, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  115   Comments: 0

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