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By:Tony Held
Dates:1/1/2002 - 8/3/2014
Album Info:A collection of train action and other rail scenes from around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Enjoy!
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Old Logo
Title:  Old Logo
Description:  Despite the new "Acela" logos on the new signage around Amtrak Midway, two "phintless arrow" logos remain. This Pne is on the parking lot side.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:04:04 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Sierra Hotel Platform End
Title:  Sierra Hotel Platform End
Description:  I find it interesting this dome car has an open platform end. Note the platform for Amtrak Midway to the left.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:56 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
Sierra Hotel Roster View
Title:  Sierra Hotel Roster View
Description:  Roster view kf this private car parked on the spur at Amtrak Midway.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:21:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Backed Up By Ethanol
Title:  Backed Up By Ethanol
Description:  As an eastbound ethanol train I'd caught in Wayzata earlier in the day crawls along the UnioU Cutoff, traffic on Energy Park Drive backs up but good. Time to put it in park and watch, people!
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:22:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Far From The Rockies And A New Paint Job
Title:  Far From The Rockies And A New Paint Job
Description:  This ex-Rio Grande unit found itself shut down and lashed to a cut of cars at East Minneapolis yard when I came across it. Train at right is moving.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 1367(GP40-2)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
UP 1932 And Two Mystery Units
Title:  UP 1932 And Two Mystery Units
Description:  This is eithier a Superior-bound train or a transfer job. Either way, it was about to depart East Minneapolis yard. Thanks to the "digital zoom" feature on my camera, I was able to get this shot from the Van Cleve Park pedestrian bridge! If the cables weren't there, it would be an even better shot. I was unable to determine the model of the other two units.
Photo Date:  9/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 10:18:14 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 1932(GP60)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
The Wayzata Sub Bridge At Dusk
Title:  The Wayzata Sub Bridge At Dusk
Description:  A portrait of the bridge which carries the BNSF Wayzata sub over Old Man River, as viewed from beneath the Hennepin Avenue suspension bridge.
Photo Date:  9/9/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 10:34:40 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Heads Up
Title:  Heads Up
Description:  This sign warns the unwary of the presence of remote control locos at Valley Park yard.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:30 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  105   Comments: 0
Classy P.O. Box
Title:  Classy P.O. Box
Description:  The Valley Park yard P.O. box has a sign with public information on it.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:24:09 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  140   Comments: 0
Valley Park Yard Office
Title:  Valley Park Yard Office
Description:  The CNW-era yard office at Valley Park on the old Omaha Road.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 4:35:12 AM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
Sign Says It All
Title:  Sign Says It All
Description:  The yard sign at the east end of Valley Park.
Photo Date:  9/10/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:23:50 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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GP 38-2 Trio
Title:  GP 38-2 Trio
Description:  A trio of GP 38-2s on point of an eastbound grain job pulled up to the Valley Park yard office where the hogger stopped the train and the crewman walking away got off. Have no idea whan it left because I had to get going on my jaunt to Faribault.
Photo Date:  9/11/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:31:41 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  UP 675(GP38-2) UP 734(GP38-2) UP 716(GP38-2)
Views:  402   Comments: 0
Tag!  You're it!
Title:  Tag! You're it!
Description:  A pair of dash nines bracket a newer model GE on the point of an eastbound grain train passing Bandana Square. Note the "tagging" on the long hood of the first unit.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:24 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4358(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4383(C44-9W)
Views:  393   Comments: 0
Honking Away
Title:  Honking Away
Description:  Over at Bandana Square, I kept hearing air horns, even engine bells at one point too. Turns out they came courtesey of the hogger of this GE duo over at Midway yard. The engines are inching a cut of COFC cars forward in this shot. Note the footbridge in the distance that also used to cross Kopper's Coke way back when.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:48:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
What Midway Intermodal Is All About
Title:  What Midway Intermodal Is All About
Description:  This shot gives us a sense of what Midway Intermodal yard is all about: COFC (and TOFC) trafffic! This GE duo was inching a cut of container-on-flats ("baretables" the cars technical name) down the yard a piece as I got this shot. They stopped, resumed as I drove away, then stopped again. Had no time to linger and see what was up, alas.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:49:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4908(C44-9W) BNSF 7427(ES44DC)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Beaver And A Dual Flag
Title:  Beaver And A Dual Flag
Description:  A pair of AC4400s -one with the CP "Beaver" logo, the other their old "Dual Flag" job- lead another Canadian Pacific westbound freight past Bandana Square mere minutes after an eastbound BNSF grain job.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:34:36 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 8543(AC44CW) CP 9511(AC44CW)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
Headed West Northwest
Title:  Headed West Northwest
Description:  "Westbound" by Bandana Square is geographically west-northwest on this segment of the former Northern Pacific, now under BNSF operation with CP and UP trackage rights. This westbound freight sports a lead unit with a somewhat charred long hood. Paint that baby, CP!
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:04:42 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 9624(AC44CW)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
CP Thunder!
Title:  CP Thunder!
Description:  Its imminent passing announced loud and clear by throaty diesel growls wafted on restless winds, this CP westbound freight finally bursts into the clear and into my camera lense as I take in the show atop the Bandana Square parking garage once more.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:04:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 9624(AC44CW)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
Eastbound Grain
Title:  Eastbound Grain
Description:  Conversely, trains headed "east" at Bandana Square are actually east-southeast geographically speaking. Here's a going-away view of a pair of older GE's bracketing a representative of the newer kind as the hogger wheels the whole shabang on by.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:15:40 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4383(C44-9W) BNSF 7556(ES44DC) BNSF 4358(C44-9W)
Views:  258   Comments: 0
Corporate Images New And Old
Title:  Corporate Images New And Old
Description:  The 1990s face of the Canadian Pacific and todays are perfectly captured in the paint jobs of this westbound CP freight passing the parking lots on Bandana Square's east-northeast side.
Photo Date:  9/17/2011  Upload Date: 9/17/2011 11:35:08 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 9511(AC44CW) CP 8543(AC44CW)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
Boylston Ho!
Title:  Boylston Ho!
Description:  The fall color trip to Boylston, Wisconsin with Amtrak Heritage unit 156 on point approaches the Fridley Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:48:27 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
Brute Force
Title:  Brute Force
Description:  A BNSF and two NS units are the ponies the hogger has as a train eithier arrived or about to depart Northtown pulls up towards the Fridley Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:15 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4889(C44-9W) NS 9295(C40-9W) NS 8785(C40-9)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Fridley Northstar Depot
Title:  Fridley Northstar Depot
Description:  A portrait of the Northstar commuter rail depot in Fridley on a quiet Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:49:02 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Station Sign Fridley
Title:  Station Sign Fridley
Description:  The sign at the Fridley Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 9:55:55 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Pulling Up To Shove Back
Title:  Pulling Up To Shove Back
Description:  I caught bits on my scanner about this job as it switched it's cars at Northtown, but I could not make out if it was a train just arrived or about to leave. Here it is pulling up by the Northstar depot.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:01:40 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  NS 8785(C40-9) NS 9295(C40-9W) BNSF 4889(C44-9W)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
Passing Trains
Title:  Passing Trains
Description:  A southbound intermodal rolling into Northtown is about to pass the northbound fall color trip led by Amtrak Heritage Genesis unit 156.
Photo Date:  10/8/2011  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 10:00:57 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1112(C44-9W) BNSF 4008(C44-9W)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
Stepping Onto The Bridge
Title:  Stepping Onto The Bridge
Description:  The Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip steps out!onto the grand old Milwaukee Road lift bridge which still bears it's MILW logos.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:29:48 PM
Location:  Hastings, MN
Author:  Uichard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
What Are You Two Doing Here?
Title:  What Are You Two Doing Here?
Description:  I got this shot of the Midway yard power from the Amtrak/Friends Of The 261 fall color trip to Winona as we eased through Union Yard. However, these units appear to have shoved a cut of COFC cars right down into the Union Pacific's East Minneapolis yard, as the NS units in the left backgroumd indicate.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/14/2011 5:02:28 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1896(SD40-2) BNSF 2716(GP39-2)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
Pumpkins On Parade
Title:  Pumpkins On Parade
Description:  Twenty minutes before the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color excursion to Winona left Minneapolis Junction, I caught this westbound freight headed onto the Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:54:50 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4918(C44-9W)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
More Pumpkins On The Wye
Title:  More Pumpkins On The Wye
Description:  Second of three dash-nines on a westbound headed onto the Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:55:16 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4987(C44-9W)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Three Pumpkins Total
Title:  Three Pumpkins Total
Description:  These here dash-nines ain't bound for now pumpkin patch, Linus Van Pelt. They're goin' west on the Wayzata sub at Minneapolis Junction! I caught this job before I hopped on the fall color trip to Winona run by Amtrak and the Friends of the 261.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 7:55:35 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5196(C44-9W)
Views:  156   Comments: 0
Meeting At The Bluff
Title:  Meeting At The Bluff
Description:  Down by Dayton's Bluff the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color run to Winona passes by a westbound BNSF freight with three GEs (what else?) on the point.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:38:21 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5347(C44-9W)
Views:  268   Comments: 0
Last Look At The Fall Color Train
Title:  Last Look At The Fall Color Train
Description:  I couldn't resist a final shot of the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip to Winona when we got back to Minneapolis Junction. What a classy train! Looked like the Amtrak of youre met the Milwaukee Road.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Off At Minneapolis Junction
Title:  Off At Minneapolis Junction
Description:  The passengers detrain at the end of the journey at Minneapolis Junction upon the fall color trip to Winona's return.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/11/2011 3:53:59 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Milwaukee 261 Mobile!
Title:  Milwaukee 261 Mobile!
Description:  Snapped this classy pickup truck from the concessions car of the fall color trip to Winona before we left Minneapolis Junction.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:33:20 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  78   Comments: 1
Green Over Red
Title:  Green Over Red
Description:  As we head towards downtown St. Paul, the fall color trip to Winona passes signals that show green and red.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:30:23 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Red Signal At Jackson Street
Title:  Red Signal At Jackson Street
Description:  The signals near the Jackson Street roundhouse flash red as the fall color trip to Winona passes by.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:30:00 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Classy Heritage Job
Title:  Classy Heritage Job
Description:  Side angle view of this classy Amtrak heritage locomotive on point of the Amtrak/Friends of the 261 fall color trip to Winona.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/9/2011 11:35:33 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  AMTK 156(P42DC)
Views:  472   Comments: 1
Trailing Pumpkin
Title:  Trailing Pumpkin
Description:  The trailing unit on a westbound freight on the old NP rumbles along as the train passes the K-Mart off Maryland Avenue. This job had mostly tank cars so it might have been an ethanol job.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 8:12:08 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7316(ES44DC)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
CP 1415
Title:  CP 1415
Description:  A roster view of a classy MP15 as it sits near the Pigs Eye diesel shop. So glad CP got the Soo Line; they're more heritage-minded, as the "beaver" logo on the 1415's hood attests.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/19/2011 8:43:04 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 1415(MP15AC)
Views:  352   Comments: 1
Resting What's Under The (Long) Hood
Title:  Resting What's Under The (Long) Hood
Description:  A worker in the cab of a CP AC4400 at the Pigs Eye diesel shop tests the engine to see how it is.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 12:57:10 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 9615(AC44CW)
Views:  197   Comments: 1
A Window Shot
Title:  A Window Shot
Description:  I was leaving the area to go chase a train headed by Dayton's Bluff when this jucier plum arrived from the opposite way! I had to turn around, race ahead of the train like I was in "Unstopbbable", and take this first of three shots of this job entering Pigs Eye.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:22:29 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4523(GP38-2) SOO 4434(GP38-2)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
CP 4523
Title:  CP 4523
Description:  Roster view of this unique rebuilt unit as it leads a Soo Line unit and a general freight into Pigs Eye yard.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:38:53 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4523(GP38-2)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
CP 4932 And My Shadow
Title:  CP 4932 And My Shadow
Description:  My shadow got into this roster shot of this ex-Soo Line 38-2 now in CP paint one of two units of the Ford Yard power.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 2:25:53 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4432(GP38-2)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
Venerable Duo
Title:  Venerable Duo
Description:  @ road-weathered 40-2 and a freshly-painted 15AC sit at the Pigs Eye difsel shop.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 3/26/2191 1:01:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 6075(SD40-2) CP 1422(MP15AC)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
Lucky Catch!
Title:  Lucky Catch!
Description:  I had gotten some Wendys and had just finished up while eating in my car next to the K-Mart near Maryland Avenue when this train appeared westbound on the old Northern Pacific. I got out, ran over camera in hand, and yes, yes, yes! This train was bagged.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/16/2011 8:11:48 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4582(C44-9W)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
End Of Track At Mile Post 160
Title:  End Of Track At Mile Post 160
Description:  Here is where the old Milwaukee Road I and M line ends todax, at mile post 160 right at the
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:29:27 PM
Location:  Greenwood, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Duke Street Bridge On The Ford Branch
Title:  Duke Street Bridge On The Ford Branch
Description:  Portrait of this classic span on the old Milwaukee Road Ford Branch. Will the rails remain on this by this time next year with the plant's closure?
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:48:04 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Classic Ford Branch Trestlework
Title:  Classic Ford Branch Trestlework
Description:  This is only part of a long wooden trestle on the Ford Branch's climb out of the river valley from downtown St. Paul.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:48:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  87   Comments: 0
I Wish They Would Move This Hack Closer
Title:  I Wish They Would Move This Hack Closer
Description:  Every time I visit Ford Yard, the resident Soo Line center-cupola caboose is always way up in the yard by#the auto parts boxcars, which means I always have to use maximum zoom. Wish they would mote it down closer to the yard office!
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 2:26:35 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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