Tied up at Hopkins

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Andy Shireman	General	Look! The old CTC signal was still in place at this late date in 1995. It has been 4 years since the last BN coal train ran through here and there's still a signal. Cool.	10/10/2007 5:40:34 PM

Andy Shireman	General	I wonder if the M&St.L tracks were still in place at this date. I think they were ripped up from Hopkins east to Bass Lake Yard in the mid-1990's and in 1990 or 1991 to Chaska.	10/10/2007 5:41:28 PM

Andy Shireman	General	BNSF power is now coming through Hopkins again to deliver coal to the sugar beet processing plant in Renville, MN.	11/10/2007 8:58:48 PM

Andy Shireman	General	The BNSF power has even been going west of Hopkins to deliver the coal to Renville and usually returns light power to the Twin Cities.	1/18/2008 7:53:56 PM

Andy Shireman	General	Sometimes the BNSF power comes into Hopkins to pick up unit ethanol trains being directly handed off from the Minnesota Prairie Line.	1/18/2008 8:02:51 PM

Andy Shireman	General	Who would have thought that 12 years later, unit coal trains would return to the TCWR, and that TCWR would have intermodal service between Shoreham and Montevideo, unit ethanol and DDG trains from the MPL in addition to the regular locals that use the tracks?	1/18/2008 8:04:29 PM

Andy Shireman	General	Glad to see that they're using the tracks again...	1/18/2008 8:05:10 PM

Andy Shireman	General	It was CTC here still in 1995 from Cedar Interlocking in South Minneapolis to Tower E-14 I believe. And from Tower E-14 to ESS Glencoe, I believe it was still TWC-ABS.	2/21/2008 9:27:57 PM

Tied up at Hopkins
St Paul turn
Date: 12/31/1995	Location: Hopkins, MN	Views: 749	Collection Of: Greg Smith
Locomotives: TCWR 402(GP10)			Author: Greg Smith

Picture Categories: Yard		This picture is part of album: 1995 Minnesota photographs

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