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1/8/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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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You Want General Electrics?  You got General Electrics!
Title:  You Want General Electrics? You got General Electrics!
Description:  The crew of this temporarily stopped eastbound freight have not less than three different GE models for power.
Photo Date:  3/3/2013  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 2:35:05 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5650(AC44CW) BNSF 5229(C44-9W) BNSF 5876(ES44AC)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
The First Train Of The Day
Title:  The First Train Of The Day
Description:  An eastbound BNSF freight (the Northtown-KCK?) hove to around 7 A.M. this day. The crew brought it to a stop due to red signals. This enabled me to go out and get this and another shot of it. Love that early-morning light in the background!
Photo Date:  3/3/2013  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 2:34:42 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5650(AC44CW) BNSF 5229(C44-9W) BNSF 5876(ES44AC)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
Under Brown Road Again
Title:  Under Brown Road Again
Description:  I wonder how many times the crew aboard this westbound freight has passed under Brown Road in Long Lake?
Photo Date:  3/24/2013  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 6:58:15 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4501(C44-9W) BNSF 1087(C44-9W)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
Headin' West!
Title:  Headin' West!
Description:  On a late March day so chilly the term "spring" is an oxymoron, a crew snug in a warm cab takes a long frieght west.
Photo Date:  3/24/2013  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 6:57:47 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4501(C44-9W) BNSF 1087(C44-9W)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
Former BNSF 'Bonnet
Title:  Former BNSF 'Bonnet
Description:  A former "BNSF"-ized Warbonnet unit -now decked out in Heritage II paint- brings up the rear of an eastbound freight on a (finally!) mild March day.
Photo Date:  3/27/2013  Upload Date: 3/27/2013 7:12:35 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 745(C44-9W)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
On The Move Again
Title:  On The Move Again
Description:  An eastbound freight (unit potash? Sand?) is underway again after being briefly halted in Long Lake by the dispatcher.
Photo Date:  3/27/2013  Upload Date: 3/27/2013 7:22:39 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4123(C44-9W)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Getting A Wheel Into The Train
Title:  Getting A Wheel Into The Train
Description:  The hogger of this eastbound freight gets a wheel into the train after a brief pause in Long Lake.
Photo Date:  3/27/2013  Upload Date: 3/27/2013 7:23:10 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4123(C44-9W)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
Did A Sand Train Drop This?
Title:  Did A Sand Train Drop This?
Description:  Found this on the siding in Long Lake on the west side of the pedestrian bridge. Did a sand train drop this?
Photo Date:  3/27/2013  Upload Date: 3/27/2013 7:13:13 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  47   Comments: 0
Look At All That Ore
Title:  Look At All That Ore
Description:  A close-up of iron ore parading by in the cars of an eastbound ore train at Bandana Square on Easter Sunday 2013.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:23:33 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Remote Controll Alco
Title:  Remote Controll Alco
Description:  Here is that remote controll Alco the MNNR brought down to their roundhouse from Hugo.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:52:49 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
And A "Chili Mac" On The DPU
Title:  And A "Chili Mac" On The DPU
Description:  A portrait of the DPU unit on an eastbound ore job as it finished parading by Bandana Square on Easter Sunday 2013
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:24:05 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9918(SD70MAC)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Out Of The Sun
Title:  Out Of The Sun
Description:  Due to the sun-angle, this eastbound BNSF ore job literally came out of the sun and into my camera lense on Easter Sunday 2013.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:24:32 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6231(ES44AC) BNSF 993(C44-9W)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
Eastbound About To Be Red-Lighted
Title:  Eastbound About To Be Red-Lighted
Description:  This eastbound CP intermodal train came to am abrupt halt for about ten minutes after the motive power passed Bandana Square. The crew must have got a red sigal further east.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/2/2013 2:59:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC) CP 8744(ES44AC)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Thundering By Bandana
Title:  Thundering By Bandana
Description:  A BNSF unit train down from Duluth/Superior thunders by Bandana Square on a blustery Easter Sunday 2013.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:27:41 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 993(C44-9W) BNSF 6231(ES44AC)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Princess Depot Looking Northeast
Title:  Princess Depot Looking Northeast
Description:  A view of the Princess Depot at Minnehaha Park from looking northeast. The metal box protects the lamp on the train order signal from the elements; wooden shutters do the same for the windows.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 3/31/2013 9:19:20 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  57   Comments: 0
Princess Depot Looking Southeast
Title:  Princess Depot Looking Southeast
Description:  A southeast-looking view of the Princess Depot at Minnehaha Park. Track at right ends right by the depot platform, some of which is now grass and earth.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 3/31/2013 10:08:46 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  37   Comments: 0
A Beloved Plaque
Title:  A Beloved Plaque
Description:  I first read this plaque placed next to the Princess Depot when I was a boy. It gives me fond memories just to look at it. Man I love trains!
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 3/31/2013 10:14:40 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
Station Sign "Minnehaha"
Title:  Station Sign "Minnehaha"
Description:  The station sign on the Princess depot at Minnehaha Park.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 3/31/2013 9:18:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
Nose Shot
Title:  Nose Shot
Description:  Usually you can view MNNR locos from the south side of the roundhouse. On this Easter Sunday, however, a string of boxcars mostly blocked out the view. I got lucky with this shot, though. The barbed wire-topped chain link fence indicates just what kind of neighborhood the Commercial's roundhouse sits in. Stay alert when you visit, railfans!
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:00:24 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 54(B30-7)
Views:  202   Comments: 0
MNNR 84
Title:  MNNR 84
Description:  Roster shot of this "new" unit, taken on a sunny but blustery Easter Sunday 2013 at the MNNR roundhouse.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 12:59:34 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 84(B39-8E)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
MNNR 87
Title:  MNNR 87
Description:  Roster shot of a "new" unit for the Commercial taken at the MNNR roundhouse on a blustery but sunny Easter 2013. It was coupled up to their other "new" unit, the 84. Both were idling unmanned.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 12:59:05 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 87(B39-8E)
Views:  271   Comments: 0
MNNR Yard Power
Title:  MNNR Yard Power
Description:  The MNNR yard power makes a nice subject stopped beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:18:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR T-3(Yard Slug) MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
Yard Goats Under The Bridge
Title:  Yard Goats Under The Bridge
Description:  Here we have the MNNR Midway yard goats stopped beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge on a breezy, sunny Easter 2013. Today warranted breaking out one of their yard slugs.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:51:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
Lamberts Point And MKT 403
Title:  Lamberts Point And MKT 403
Description:  Roster shot of these two private cars at Amtrak Midway.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 11:49:46 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
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Views:  453   Comments: 1
403 And The Lamberts Point
Title:  403 And The Lamberts Point
Description:  These two open-platform private cars look nice parked back-to-back at Amtrak Midway on Easter Sunday 2013. Dig that Missouri-Kansas-Texas drumhead!
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 11:49:20 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
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Views:  416   Comments: 1
Snowmelt Along The Old Milwaukee Road
Title:  Snowmelt Along The Old Milwaukee Road
Description:  A wind-whipped snowmelt puddle on the south side of the old Milwaukee Road across from the MNNR roundhouse made an irresistible photo subject.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:17:59 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Scenic
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
Union Yard Goats On The Move
Title:  Union Yard Goats On The Move
Description:  The Union Yard goats emerge from beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge on a reverse switch move.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 9:54:01 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3002(GP40M) BNSF 3022(GP40M)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Shoving Back Into Union Yard
Title:  Shoving Back Into Union Yard
Description:  The hogger aboard these veteran units clad in paint schemes old and new is busy shoving a mix of COFC/TOFC flats back into Union Yard after pulling all the way down to Raymond Avenue.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 9:56:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3022(GP40M) BNSF 3002(GP40M)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
And A Canuck National In The Bargain!
Title:  And A Canuck National In The Bargain!
Description:  The crew aboard this westbound BNSF intermodal job has a CN unit along for the ride as they pass Bandana Square.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:29:39 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7512(ES44DC) BNSF 1107(C44-9W) IC 2708(C44-9W)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
Almost Stopped
Title:  Almost Stopped
Description:  The crew aboard this eastbound (loaded) unit coal job have almost got their long train brought to a stopm for a (temporarily) red signal at Long Lake. Meanwhile traffic on U.S. 12 zips east and west without pause.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 8:19:28 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5785(ES44AC) BNSF 9256(SD70ACe)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Eastbound DPU On The Move Again
Title:  Eastbound DPU On The Move Again
Description:  The DPU on an eastbound unit coal train that stopped for all of three (?!) minutes at Long Lake brings up the rear as the train speeds out of town.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 8:19:57 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9307(SD70ACe)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
Eastbound Coal At A Crawl
Title:  Eastbound Coal At A Crawl
Description:  The crew of this eastbound unit coal job is slowing their train to a crawl as they approach the Brown Road underpass prior to a 3-minute halt for a red signal at Long Lake.
Photo Date:  4/7/2013  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 8:34:13 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5785(ES44AC) BNSF 9256(SD70ACe)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
The Princess
Title:  The Princess
Description:  A shot of the Princess Depot at Minnehaha Park as viewed from the Minnehaha Avenue side. Before an extensive redo of the park was done Minnehaha Avenue was much wider and still had old streetcar rails buried in them.
Photo Date:  4/8/2013  Upload Date: 4/9/2013 10:49:34 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  26   Comments: 0
A Gate
Title:  A Gate
Description:  Metro-Transit buses have replaced trains at this gate. At least it is back in mass-transit service.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:51:27 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
Never thought I'd see the day
Title:  Never thought I'd see the day
Description:  I never thought I'd see the day such a structure would be added to SPUD to serve trains again.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 5:48:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
"The Empire Builder's" new stop
Title:  "The Empire Builder's" new stop
Description:  Come late 2013, "The Empire Builder" will call at this platform at SPUD, just as things used to be for the flagship train of the Great Northern.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:32:38 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
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Views:  67   Comments: 0
The old and the new
Title:  The old and the new
Description:  Another view that contrasts the ultra-modern Amtrak platform wing with the classic SPUD concourse.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 5:52:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  44   Comments: 0
B Gate
Title:  B Gate
Description:  This gate at SPUD so far only leads down to a restored train platform that has ballast by it by no tracks -yet, I hope.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:51:08 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Weathered and fresh paint
Title:  Weathered and fresh paint
Description:  The next two units I found in a big line parked by the Pig's Eye diesel house. The paint is a study in contrasts, but I prefer the bandit!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/26/2013 9:56:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 1540(MP15AC) CP 1447(MP15AC)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
Bandits at the Belt
Title:  Bandits at the Belt
Description:  Two ex-Soo Line exx-Milwaukee Road "bandit" MP15s at the UP Belt Yard just after they were cut from their cars. Note the "Milwaukee Road" lettering still legible on the long hood of the 1548.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 5:37:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 1536(MP15AC) SOO 1548(MP15AC)
Views:  379   Comments: 1
On Milwaukee rails!
Title:  On Milwaukee rails!
Description:  This transfer crew passes the Pigs Eye diesel house after dropping a cut of cars at the next door UP Belt Yard with a pair of veteran exx-Milwaukee Road ex-Soo Line "bandits." Note the "Milwaukee Road" lettering on the 1548's long hood. 33 years ago it was fresh-looking. Remarkable how long paint can last!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 5:52:48 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 1548(MP15AC) SOO 1534(MP15AC)
Views:  580   Comments: 0
C Gate
Title:  C Gate
Description:  Here is where you have the option at SPUD of boarding/leaving "The Empire Builder" from.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:51:45 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
Coach "Merriam Park"
Title:  Coach "Merriam Park"
Description:  The Minnesota Commercial stashes several coaches at their roundhouse. This is one of them. Anybody know where this car came from originally?
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:42:31 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
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Views:  462   Comments: 1
Battered paint and fresh
Title:  Battered paint and fresh
Description:  A veteran CP GE is nose-to-nose with a new ECO-friendly GP20 at Pig's Eye yard.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:33:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9539(AC44CW) CP 2223(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
GE and EMD
Title:  GE and EMD
Description:  Units five and six in a big lineup of motive power I found this day parked by the Pig's Eye diesel house. The paint on both units have seen better days.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/26/2013 9:56:49 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9555(AC44CW) CP 5941(SD40-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
Environmentally-friendly
Title:  Environmentally-friendly
Description:  I caught my first two of the recent batch of environmentally-friendly four-axle units CP got. They sure look good in fresh paint!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/26/2013 10:04:40 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 2222(GP20C-ECO) CP 2216(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
Crew change at Pig's Eye
Title:  Crew change at Pig's Eye
Description:  I do believe th—s is a CP/ICE train that is picture here getting a crew change at Pig's Eye yard. The CP seems to be keeping some of the ex-Soo Line SD60s in service judging by the brand-oew paint on the 6234.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:19:27 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  ICE 6432(SD40-2) CP 6234(SD60) DME 6367(SD40-2)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
The start of a very long line!
Title:  The start of a very long line!
Description:  These two MP15s smartly turned out in two versions of the CP paint scheme are just the start of a very long line of units sitting beside the diesel house at Pig's Eye yard this day.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 11:08:49 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 1433(MP15AC) CP 1404(MP15AC)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
Pulling up in the engine terminal
Title:  Pulling up in the engine terminal
Description:  A quartet of diesels -three CP (or CP-painted) and one DME- pull up inside the confines of the Pig's Eye yard engine terminal on a blustery, cloudy April Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 5:21:37 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5936(SD40-2) DME 6056(SD40-2)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
CP 6258
Title:  CP 6258
Description:  Roster shot of this freshly re-painted former Soo Line wide-nose SD60. It is at the Pig's Eye yard diesel house.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:34:19 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 6258(SD60M)
Views:  595   Comments: 0


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