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By:Tony Held
Dates:9/3/2014 - 9/7/2020
Album Info:More train action and other rail scenes from around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Enjoy!
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Reminiscent Of Dakota Rail's F Units
Title:  Reminiscent Of Dakota Rail's F Units
Description:  The Canadian Pacific f unit duo on the head end of CP's Ryder Cup train brought back boyhood memories of Dakota Rail's f units. (In fact, I had just come from photographing BNSF's Ryder Cup train, which was parked on the former DAKR interchange trackage.)
Photo Date:  9/28/2016  Upload Date: 10/3/2016 5:54:30 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  CP 4107(FP9A) CP 4106(FP9A)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
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Photo Date:  10/7/2016  Upload Date: 10/7/2016 7:08:52 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  26   Comments: 0
Entering The Junction
Title:  Entering The Junction
Description:  Union Pacific's local from Plymouth, sporting two GMTX unirs for power, rolls onto the south leg of the wye at Minneapolis Junction as the crew enters the last leg of their journey to East Minneapolis yard.
Photo Date:  10/7/2016  Upload Date: 10/7/2016 7:05:47 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMTX 2694(GP38-2) GMTX 2277(GP38-2)
Views:  291   Comments: 2
Almost Home
Title:  Almost Home
Description:  Tne Union Pacific local from Plymouth rounds the south leg of the wye at East Minneapolis beneath rapidly clouding skies as the crew nears their destination of East Minneapolis yard.
Photo Date:  10/7/2016  Upload Date: 10/7/2016 7:06:41 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMTX 2277(GP38-2) GMTX 2694(GP38-2)
Views:  271   Comments: 2
BNSF-ized
Title:  BNSF-ized
Description:  An-ex BN SD70MAC "patched" with a BNSF logo on its nose brings up the rear of an edstbound Bakken oil train passing Fridley station.
Photo Date:  11/4/2016  Upload Date: 10/3/2014 5:20:05 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9667(SD70MAC)
Views:  644   Comments: 0
South of 86th Street
Title:  South of 86th Street
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew pauses in the middle of a switching move south of 86th Street beneath gray but surprisingly mild November skies.
Photo Date:  11/29/2016  Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:17:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  242   Comments: 1
Switching Amidst Industry
Title:  Switching Amidst Industry
Description:  The PGR crew has pulled ahead on a switching move south of 86th Street. I do not know if they were switching an industry, or sorting out stored cars. The industry in the background provides a swell backdrop for the two locomotives whose paint schemes are virtually identical to that used by the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern, which once operated this line.
Photo Date:  11/29/2016  Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:18:13 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  310   Comments: 1
Brandon and Andy
Title:  Brandon and Andy
Description:  Brandon (left) photographs while Andy (right) watches after taking some pics, as the CP Holiday Train rolls south from the CP/UP diamond on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Neither snow nor, well, anything else can deter some of us railfans. :-)
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 2:24:55 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  48   Comments: 0
Southbound In The Snow
Title:  Southbound In The Snow
Description:  The first significant snowstorm of the year was already in full swing by the time the CP Holiday Train hove into view at the CP/UP diamond in Golden Valley. The snow, however, greatly added to the holiday spirit of the spectacle.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 2:19:36 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2246(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
The Holiday Train At The Diamond
Title:  The Holiday Train At The Diamond
Description:  The Canadian Pacific Holiday train approaches the diamond on the MNS Spur with the Union Pacific's Golden Valley Industrial Lead on a snowy Saturday afternoon in early December. The train was running a bit late to its next engagement due to being thirty minutes late in New Hope, its first of three stops on the spur. Next stop: Golden Hills Drive in Golden Valley. Incidentally, the engineer was repeatedly blowing short blasts on the air horn to greet the small group gathered at the diamond to watch the train's passing.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/10/2016 7:39:04 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 2246(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
A Brief Pause
Title:  A Brief Pause
Description:  The CP Holiday Train is about to come to a brief pause as per operating rules to obey the "Stop" sign at the CP/UP diamond before proceeding on to Golden Hills Drive and showtime.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 2:21:34 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2246(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
On To The Next Show
Title:  On To The Next Show
Description:  The CP Holiday Train heads south on the MNS Spur bound for Golden Hills Drive and the next show. Two more shows, in St. Louis Park and, after a reverse move back to the old Soo Line main in New Hope, northeast Minneapolis, were to come after. Who would have thought we would see passengers riding the old MN&s/Dan Patch in 2016?
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 2:30:25 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Here Comes The Varnish
Title:  Here Comes The Varnish
Description:  Four warm and toasty CP passenger cars loaded with riders lucky to get a seat on the CP Holiday Train begin to cross the CP/UP diamond as the train heads for showtime at Golden Hills Drive on a snowy Saturday afternoon. These folks were undoubtedly the first passengers to ride any portion of the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern since a football special to and from Northfield plied the MN&S in October of 1978.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 2:28:04 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Ex-Santa Fe At The Signals
Title:  Ex-Santa Fe At The Signals
Description:  An ex-Santa Fe unit, running tail end Charlie behind four other units, is about to pass under the signals at Division Street as it heads west with a BNSF mixed merchandise job.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 3:39:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 627(C44-9W) BNSF 5163(C44-9W) BNSF 9362(SD70ACe)
Views:  179   Comments: 0
Big Lashup
Title:  Big Lashup
Description:  A westbound BNSF mixed merchandise freight heads up the east leg of the wye at Division Street with no less than five units on the head end. Perhaps at least two of these were simply hitching a ride and the engineer had three units for power? (Next time I will try sitting atop a picnic bench at the railfan park here to try to get above the fence for a zoom shot, by the way.)
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 3:38:21 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3776(ET44C4) BNSF 6755(ES44C4) BNSF 9362(SD70ACe) BNSF 5163(C44-9W) BNSF 627(C44-9W)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Westbound At Division Street
Title:  Westbound At Division Street
Description:  A westbound Canadian Pacific transfer (?) heads up the east leg of the Division Street wye as the Milwaukee Road 261 waits with the 1 P.M. North Pole Express on St. Paul Union Depot's tail track.
Photo Date:  12/10/2016  Upload Date: 12/11/2016 3:29:07 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 6026(SD40-2) SOO 4412(GP38-2) MILW 261(4-8-4)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
Crew Confab
Title:  Crew Confab
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew confers before they commence moving stored freight cars parked along the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern north of Dodd Boulevard in Lakeville. PGR picked a nice, mild day for the move.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:29:21 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  467   Comments: 1
Coupling Up
Title:  Coupling Up
Description:  The road power couples up to a string of stored small (cement?) hoppers parked along the inactive main line of the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern. The fallow fields lend an air of prairie railroading to this scene.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:30:02 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  401   Comments: 1
Crossing Dodd
Title:  Crossing Dodd
Description:  A school bus driver patiently waits while the Progressive Rail crew moves their leased unit trio across Dodd Boulevard shortly after 9 A.M. at the start of a stored freight car move.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:28:47 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  459   Comments: 2
Pause
Title:  Pause
Description:  The PGR crew pauses a moment at the start of the stored freight car move which took place this day.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:31:08 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
Moving Past Fallow Fields
Title:  Moving Past Fallow Fields
Description:  The PGR road power moves up past fallow fields north of Dodd Boulevard as the stored freight car move begins.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:29:40 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
Resume
Title:  Resume
Description:  The PGR crew resumes pushing as they continue to couple up strings of covered hoppers stored along the old MN&S main line.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:31:42 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
Restored Track
Title:  Restored Track
Description:  A bit of overgrown track left behind by Dakota Rail was recently restored as a tail track at the former BNSF/DAKR interchange in Wayzata.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:32:20 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  80   Comments: 0
"What Made You Late?"
Title:  "What Made You Late?"
Description:  Stored covered hoppers block the Ipava Avenue crossing as Progressive Rail begins to move stored cars parked on the former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern main line.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:30:48 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  71   Comments: 0
Slumbering On A False Spring Afternoon
Title:  Slumbering On A False Spring Afternoon
Description:  Stored power, including a veteran CP SD40-2 in faded "dual flag" red, an AC44CW in spiffier paint, and d surprisingly clean Soo/Milwaukee "bandit" GP40 and, apparently, a Soo GP38-2 slumber beneath graying skies on a false spring afternoon (the weather was balmy enough for light coats and long#shorts).
Photo Date:  2/19/2017  Upload Date: 2/19/2017 7:17:32 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9524(AC44CW)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Ex-Soo Caboose In,A False Spring
Title:  Ex-Soo Caboose In,A False Spring
Description:  The calendar said February, but the day I photographed this ex-Soo Line wooden caboose at Mickman Brothers in Ham Lake, the weather was that of a false spring. Mickman has moved the 9 since I last saw it.
Photo Date:  2/19/2017  Upload Date: 2/19/2017 6:50:22 PM
Location:  Ham Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Unique Decor At Mickman Brothers
Title:  Unique Decor At Mickman Brothers
Description:  This ex-Soo Line caboose has been on display at Mickman Brothers for quite some time. Despite it's having a wood carbody, this caboose has weathered the elements remarkably well. A testament to the love and care given to it by Mickman. Anyone know how this car%got here?
Photo Date:  2/19/2017  Upload Date: 2/19/2017 6:48:43 PM
Location:  Ham Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  150   Comments: 1
Long Lived "Whiteface"
Title:  Long Lived "Whiteface"
Description:  Both of BNSF's ex-BN SD60 "whiteface" units were at Northtown this day. The 1405 was sitting alone near the turntable, making for this great roster shot.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 8:51:55 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 1405(SD60M)
Views:  196   Comments: 1
Golden Oldhe Backing Up
Title:  Golden Oldhe Backing Up
Description:  An ex-BN GP50, with "Burliogton Northern" visible again next to the BN logo on its long hood, reverses into the Northtown shop as the hogger pays careful attention jo the brakeman's instructions.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 6:24:28 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3158(GP50)
Views:  231   Comments: 1
BNSF 8058
Title:  BNSF 8058
Description:  Roster shot, taken from 34th Avenue Bridge (which explains the slightly funky angle).
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 8:49:33 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 8058(ES44C4)
Views:  118   Comments: 0
Kicking Cars
Title:  Kicking Cars
Description:  The hump power kicks cars at Northtown beneath mostly cloud skies on a chilly late February afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:10:06 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1931(SD40-2) BNSF 70(Yard Slug) BNSF 1888(SD40-2) BNSF 1405(SD60M)
Views:  722   Comments: 1
No Snow To Plow Today
Title:  No Snow To Plow Today
Description:  The weather forecast earlier this week made it look like this rotary set would have its work cut out for it come February 24. The storm struck south and east of the Twin Cities, however, giving nothing by a cold wind sweeping over the rotary and its locomotive as they sat beneath mostly cloudy skies at Northtown.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 8:39:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 1543(GP28P)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
Reversing Into The Shop
Title:  Reversing Into The Shop
Description:  A pair of BNSF units reverse into the shop area at Northtown while a brakeman coaches the engineer as to how far to go and when to stop. Notg the tagged refer in the foreground. Graffiti artists sure can't resist freight cars.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 6:09:15 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 755(C44-9W) BNSF 5353(C44-9W)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Parked By The Turntable
Title:  Parked By The Turntable
Description:  Three units, including one of those funky newfangled engines, sits near the Northtown turntable on a chilly afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:28:19 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 55(TEBC6) BNSF 3944(ET44C4) BNSF 3867(ET44C4)
Views:  1418   Comments: 1
Yard Hump And Stored Power
Title:  Yard Hump And Stored Power
Description:  The yard hump crew kicks cars while units parked near the turntable cool their heels as a cooler wind sweeps across the yard on the last Friday in February, 2017.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:18:56 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1405(SD60M) BNSF 1942(SD39-2) BNSF 1563(SD38P) BNSF 1931(SD40-2) BNSF 70(Yard Slug) BNSF 1888(SD40-2)
Views:  783   Comments: 1
Switching At The Parkway
Title:  Switching At The Parkway
Description:  One of the Northtown yard goats switches at St. Anthony Parkway as the sun begins to peep through a mostly cloudy sky on the last Friday for February, 2017. A new bridge carrying the parkway over the yard is currently under construction, replacing the venerable structure dating back to, apparently, Northern Pacific days.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:29:28 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2715(GP39-2)
Views:  163   Comments: 1
"GN" For "Gone Now"?
Title:  "GN" For "Gone Now"?
Description:  Three more veteran units stored north of the University Avenue bridge sit in Northtown awaiting their fate. I will miss these switchers. I have fond memories of them at Union and Midway yards in happier times. The snowplow apparently still has a future, though, as it still retains its BN reporting mark.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:30:59 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  GN 3404(SW1500) GN 3411(SW1500) GN 3464(SW1500)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
So Long, My Friends
Title:  So Long, My Friends
Description:  Two veteran units await their fate while parked in a small string of stored units (and one snowplow) north of the University Avenue bridge at Northtown. New paint did not ensure the 1720 would roll for the BNSF, its third owner, forever. Thank heavens one of her brethren escaped to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. If only that 45-2 ahead of the 1720 could make such an escape.
Photo Date:  2/24/2017  Upload Date: 2/24/2017 9:30:14 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  GN 6470(SD45-2) GN 1720(SD9)
Views:  427   Comments: 1
Yard Goats In Repose
Title:  Yard Goats In Repose
Description:  Valley Park's yard goats idle by the yard office beneath mostly cloudy skies on the last day of February, 2017. Meanwhile, other units get some rest further down in the yard.
Photo Date:  2/28/2017  Upload Date: 2/28/2017 9:45:21 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 803(GP38-2) UP 675(GP38-2)
Views:  272   Comments: 1
Stopped By The Mile Marker Sign
Title:  Stopped By The Mile Marker Sign
Description:  An eastbound freight tagged by a red signal waits for the green down by the mile marker sign along the Highway 12/Wayzata Subdivision corridor early on a March evening. The crew was in for a long wait.
Photo Date:  3/15/2017  Upload Date: 3/15/2017 7:20:35 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7357(ES44DC) BNSF 6656(ES44C4) BNSF 5296(C44-9W)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
Former Would-Be Merger Partners
Title:  Former Would-Be Merger Partners
Description:  A CP and NS unit are the motive power on an eastbound freight whose crew had paused in the middle of sorting out their cars into Humboldt down at the yard's eastern end. This portrait also captures how CP and NS were would-be merger partners this time last year. Thank God that merger did not come to pass.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:18:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8773(ES44AC) NS 2587(SD70M)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
GEs And A Snowplow
Title:  GEs And A Snowplow
Description:  A string of GEs, which doubtless have seen much action this winter, and a snowplow, which doubtless saw less use than usual this winter, rest in Humboldt Yard on a gray Friday afternoon in March.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:04:45 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9511(AC44CW) CP 9558(AC44CW)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
The MNS Spur Power?
Title:  The MNS Spur Power?
Description:  These two GPs might be the current motive power on the MNS Spur local at the moment. Either that or they are assigned other duties. Anyway, I found them at Humboldt this day.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:15:16 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 3022(GP38-2)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
Badly Tagged Caboose
Title:  Badly Tagged Caboose
Description:  I came upon this badly tagged Soo Line caboose at Humboldt Yard. Some punks just have no respect for private property.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:18:08 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  125   Comments: 0
Still Parked
Title:  Still Parked
Description:  This cluster of units, including a veteran CP SD40-2, and ex-Milwaukee Road "bandit" GP40, and a Soo Line GP38-2, remain parked in the east end of Humboldt Yard since I saw them last.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:19:19 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9524(AC44CW)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
Three Drab, One Fresh
Title:  Three Drab, One Fresh
Description:  Another view of this five unit string of GEs I found at Humboldt Yard on a gray Friday afternoon. Four are drab, but the fifth, second from the right, the 9558, is resplendent. Must be out of the paint shop by only a few months.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:03:16 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9511(AC44CW) CP 9558(AC44CW)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
Midway Yard's Yard Goats
Title:  Midway Yard's Yard Goats
Description:  The crew of Midway's yard goats gets ready to resume switching after a sand train passed while the units idled near Snelling Avenue on a gray Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 8:57:23 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1824(SD39-2) BNSF 1898(SD40-2)
Views:  286   Comments: 1
Tagged And Rusty
Title:  Tagged And Rusty
Description:  This ex-Burlington Northern boxcar, which I assume the Minnesota Commercial now owns, is so rusted and "tagged" by local punks that it is impossible to find a stencil on it. I saw a similar car without trucks a few years back, apparently used for storage at a business in Rosemount located just off the remains of the Chicago Great Western's main line. (That car's paint was in better shape, by the way.)
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 8:38:54 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  70   Comments: 0
Veteran BN Duo At Highway 280
Title:  Veteran BN Duo At Highway 280
Description:  BNSF's veteran SD60 duo approaches Highway 280 as the crew takes them up to Northtown on a light power move. Note the sand train in the right background at Union Yard. I am not sure if that was the train's final destination, but it had stopped there for the moment after it passed Midway yard.
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 9:10:59 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1475(SD60M) BNSF 1458(SD60M)
Views:  363   Comments: 2
Golden Oldies On The Move
Title:  Golden Oldies On The Move
Description:  BNSF's veteran SD60 duo is slowly but surely driven along the old Great Northern by the 1458's engineer as the light power move approaches the U of M transitway.
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 9:10:15 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1458(SD60M) BNSF 1475(SD60M)
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