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RRVW 4104
Title:  RRVW 4104
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Photo Date:  7/26/2012  Upload Date: 7/28/2012 3:03:28 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Karl Andraschko
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Locomotives:  RRVW 4104(GP15C)
Views:  256   Comments: 2
RRVW 4104
Title:  RRVW 4104
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Photo Date:  7/26/2012  Upload Date: 7/28/2012 3:02:18 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Karl Andraschko
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Locomotives:  RRVW 4104(GP15C)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
RRVW 4104
Title:  RRVW 4104
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Photo Date:  7/26/2012  Upload Date: 7/28/2012 3:01:10 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Karl Andraschko
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Locomotives:  RRVW 4104(GP15C)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
Looking East Across 35W
Title:  Looking East Across 35W
Description:  A view east across the bridge carrying the former MN&S Hi Line across 35W.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 9:48:04 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  79   Comments: 0
Silent Rails At Auto Club
Title:  Silent Rails At Auto Club
Description:  The wildly overgrown rails of Auto Club yard and the rusted rails of the mothballed former main line of the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern rest in silence as the sun sets on a late summer's Monday evening. As late as 2002, the summer months witnessed movements to and from Port Cargill in Savage by the Twin Cities & Western via these rails; they await their return.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 9:48:45 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
Progressive Rail's Link To The Outside World
Title:  Progressive Rail's Link To The Outside World
Description:  The track at the left is Progressive Rail's link to the outside rail world at Auto Club Yard, whose mothballed tracks begin south of the dismantled switch in the foreground. The track at left marks the start of the former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern "Hi Line" which PGR now operates.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 9:50:52 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  134   Comments: 0
Long Unused Rails
Title:  Long Unused Rails
Description:  Last used to store cars bound for scrap, today the rails of the former MN&S Auto Club yard now are wildly overgrown to the point most are invisible.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 10:09:11 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
At Rest Behind The Fence
Title:  At Rest Behind The Fence
Description:  PGER 36 sits inside the grounds of the Bloomington freight house on a mild Monday evening in early August.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 10:09:57 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Waybill In The Kunckle
Title:  Waybill In The Kunckle
Description:  A Progressive Rail waybill sits stuffed in the tip of the open knuckle coupler on Soo centerbeam flat 600398. The lead of five cars of interchange I found waiting on the north side of Auto Club yard on a recent visit.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 10:27:17 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Waiting Interchange
Title:  Waiting Interchange
Description:  One centerbeam flat, three double door boxcars, and a smooth side covered hopper wait on the main track on the north end of the former MN&S Auto Club yard on a Monday evening in August. Note the waybill stuck into the coupler of the flat.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 10:22:51 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  214   Comments: 0
Another Scene Fit For A Model Railroad
Title:  Another Scene Fit For A Model Railroad
Description:  This spur track near the Bloomington Progressive Rail freight house is picking up traffic-wise. After finding an empty bulkhead flat here just over a week before, here was another, loaded and everything, in another scene fit for a model railroad.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/23/2012 8:17:23 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
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:  75   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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Views:  60   Comments: 0
PGR 36 And Freight House Sign
Title:  PGR 36 And Freight House Sign
Description:  Here we have PGR's former MN&S SW15000 parked in the freight house on a sunny late August evening. Since I usually catch this unit here, for variety's sake I composed into this shot the "All Drivers" sign on the left.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/23/2012 8:17:47 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  224   Comments: 0
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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Views:  39   Comments: 0
Cut Of Cars On The Hi Line
Title:  Cut Of Cars On The Hi Line
Description:  I was surprised to find this cut of freight cars parked on the Hi Line east of Penn Avenue South. Saw no sign of the PGR 36 past here so I presume these cars were parked here for the weekend?
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 8:40:09 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
Progressive Rail's Emergency Contact Info
Title:  Progressive Rail's Emergency Contact Info
Description:  A vie of one of the stickers adorning one of the signals at the West 102nd street crossing on Progressive Rail's former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern Hi Line.
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 8:40:26 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  55   Comments: 0
Queen Avenue South
Title:  Queen Avenue South
Description:  A view looking southeast down the Hi Line from the Queen Avenue South grade crossing.
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 8:40:47 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  62   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. Kere 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:  69   Comments: 0
Two Crossings In A Row
Title:  Two Crossings In A Row
Description:  Looking southeast down the Hi Line from the West 102nd street crossing we can not only see it but also the Queen Avenue south crossing in a scene fit for a model railroad.
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 8:41:02 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
Second Car
Title:  Second Car
Description:  Kere is the second LRT on a southbound three-unit Route 55 just after it arrived at the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  11/25/2012  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:  115   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:  35   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:  112   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:  42   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 Transjt 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:  164   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:  46   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:  118   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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Views:  44   Comments: 0
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:  106   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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Views:  45   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road And MN&S Vets
Title:  Milwaukee Road And MN&S Vets
Description:  Along Progressive Rail's former MN&S High Line route just west of Lyndale Avenue down by their open-air shops next to Ziegler CAT we find a Milwaukee Road vet in the form of CP GP40 4609 parked idling out on the main track and a Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern vet in the form of PGR SW1500 36 sitting parked shut down on the spur into Ziegler. Nice!
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 7:52:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4609(GP40) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
First Catch Of The Year!
Title:  First Catch Of The Year!
Description:  Parked idling outside Ziegler CAT on Progressive Rail's ex-MN&S High Line just west of Lyndale Avenue this day was this ex-Soo Line exx-Milwaukee Road GP40. Not bad for the first railfan catch of the year for me!
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 7:52:13 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4609(GP40)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
MTC 103 Coors Light
Title:  MTC 103 Coors Light
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Photo Date:  4/26/2013  Upload Date: 4/15/2019 6:16:43 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
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Locomotives:  MTC 103(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
MTC 104 leave Mall of America
Title:  MTC 104 leave Mall of America
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Photo Date:  4/26/2013  Upload Date: 6/3/2014 12:18:47 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  MTC 104(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
PGR 36 and lumber flats
Title:  PGR 36 and lumber flats
Description:  On a cool (but not chilly) afternoon on the last day of April, PGR 36 sits coupled to two loaded centerbeam flats at the PGR freight house in Bloomington.
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 9:52:55 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  211   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:  28   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:  244   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:  271   Comments: 0
A view from the "back"
Title:  A view from the "back"
Description:  A view of the "back" end of the PGR 34. It is the "back" in name only duie to the ditch lights for cab-first running. 34 was parked lashed up to two covered joppers at Lyndale Siding this evening.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:57 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
The tagged boxcar review
Title:  The tagged boxcar review
Description:  Two heavily tagged boxcars sit on the spur track which branches off the lioe into Progressive Rail's freight house in Bloomington.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:52:34 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
Dig that logo!
Title:  Dig that logo!
Description:  The Progressive Rail logo on the PGR 34 at Lyndale Siding.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:04:00 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
Hello again!
Title:  Hello again!
Description:  When I first saw this unit working the Hi-Line, it's number was 2347. On This b}eezy, deliciously mild mid-June evening the now-renumbered (and re-painted) unit is at Lyndale Siding on the Hi-Line. The 34 is lashed to a couple hoppers. I hfve it on good authority this unit was used down in the Lakeville-Northfield area for a time.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:11 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
All coupled up but staying put
Title:  All coupled up but staying put
Description:  We are outside PGR's Bloomington freight house in thip photo. It looks like the 36 is ready to roll here. Well it technically is, but it is shut off and resting beneath mild June skies this evening. Track in the right background junctions with another spur just south of the grade crossing in the distance.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:50:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
Out of the freight house
Title:  Out of the freight house
Description:  The 36 sits outside the freight house grounds lashed to a short cut of cars. Note: "sun glare" beyond the 36's nose is due in part to the camera setting.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:09:01 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
Centerbeam flatcars and office parks
Title:  Centerbeam flatcars and office parks
Description:  It is downright amazing that Progressive Rail's freight house and surroundinc tracks like these are plunked down in what is now office park-ville. They sure ship a lot of lumber on the Hi-Line.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:53:03 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
TTZX 863991
Title:  TTZX 863991
Description:  Roster view of this car which-along with TTZX 862659- was parked on the spur tracks that branch off the line into Progressive Rail's freight house.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:53:50 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  50   Comments: 0
RRVW 4101 and friend at Ziegler
Title:  RRVW 4101 and friend at Ziegler
Description:  RRV&W 4101 and either!another RRV&W or a TC&W unit are currently at Ziegler CAT. I wonder: does anybody know when these units usually come and go from Ziegler?
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:08:35 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  RRVW 4101(GP15C)
Views:  413   Comments: 1
MTC 108B
Title:  MTC 108B
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/9/2013  Upload Date: 4/15/2019 6:16:46 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
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Locomotives:  MTC 108B(Flexity Swift LRT) MTC 108(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
What Industry is This?
Title:  What Industry is This?
Description:  This industry is located on a spur a block east of Lyndale and 86th Avenue. What industry is this? An article in a February, 1999, issue of RailNews says an industry named Chemrex was located off the old MN&S "High Line" at 86th Street and took tank cars loaded with alcohol. But covered hoppers parked on that spur track now.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:04:54 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Track
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
PGR Southbound at 86th
Title:  PGR Southbound at 86th
Description:  The Progressive Rail "High Line" local heads south across 86th Street with a short string of covered hoppers in tow plus another PGR unit on a seasonably cold afternoon on a day in mid-January.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:09:09 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  295   Comments: 1


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