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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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Ex- NP In The Lead!
Title:  Ex- NP In The Lead!
Description:  Amazing to relate, BNSF 1544 is an ex-Northern Pacific unit! Good thing I came back with my camera after passing this train on my bike a few hours earlier. What a prize! They have in tow a string of COFC baretables, stretching back almost to the western end of the siding in Long Lake.
Photo Date:  6/26/2010  Upload Date: 6/26/2010 8:46:27 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1544(GP28P) BNSF 2973(GP39V)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
Canadian National Coil Car
Title:  Canadian National Coil Car
Description:  This coil car was the last of three about to be taken to Minneapolis on the return trip of the weekday UP local out to Plymouth.
Photo Date:  7/2/2010  Upload Date: 7/2/2010 6:57:00 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  68   Comments: 0
Ex-CNW!!!!
Title:  Ex-CNW!!!!
Description:  Bingo! I finally catch a piece of ex-CNW rolling stock on ex-CNW rails. In this instance the ex-CNW Golden Valley Industrial lead in Plymouth.
Photo Date:  7/2/2010  Upload Date: 7/2/2010 6:56:31 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  170   Comments: 1
Ready, Set ...
Title:  Ready, Set ...
Description:  Minutes after I snapped this shot, the hogger on the 1498 opened up the throttle to take the train east across Xenium Lane and leave Plymouth behind for the day, headed for Minneapolis. Note the ex-Mo Pac coil car, the first of three strung out ahead of the nose of the 1498.
Photo Date:  7/2/2010  Upload Date: 7/2/2010 6:57:17 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  UP 1498(GP40M-2)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Union Pacific 1498 Roster Shot
Title:  Union Pacific 1498 Roster Shot
Description:  A roster view of the GP40 2 on todays local to Plymouth on the UP's "Golden Valley Industrial Lead" - the operating remains of the Minnesota Western/Minneapolis and St. Louis line to Cosmos, MN, the bulk of which is now the Luce Line trail.
Photo Date:  7/2/2010  Upload Date: 7/2/2010 6:56:08 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  UP 1498(GP40M-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 0
BN 12607 Roster Shot
Title:  BN 12607 Roster Shot
Description:  This MOW caboose and I have crossed paths before. Nice to see it again, this time called up as a result of the 6 30 10 coal train derailment in Wayzata.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 4:33:15 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  139   Comments: 0
Once More Unto The Crisis
Title:  Once More Unto The Crisis
Description:  Hulcher may have done the bulk of the work clearing up the June 30th 2010 train derailment in Wayzata, but the BNSF broke out some muscle of its own to complete the job. Here this crane-flat-caboose job reposes under breezy warm sunny skies patiently waiting for its crew to show up and resume work.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 4:34:43 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  206   Comments: 0
"How Soon Will The Cranes Be Here?"
Title:  "How Soon Will The Cranes Be Here?"
Description:  I always think of that line from the rip-roarin' 1964 WWII flick THE TRAIN whenever I see one of these babies.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 4:35:02 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  177   Comments: 0
Still Gawking
Title:  Still Gawking
Description:  "Disaster strikes!" goes a title card in the movie THE WRONG BOX when two trains crash into each other. Same could be said for the messy derailment which covered this area only four days previously. Folks were still out checking out the cleared-up scene west of the Ferndale Road grade crossing as this westbound freight grandly paraded past with a "BNSF"-ized warbonnet leading an H-1 sister dash-nine. Note the churned-up earth remaining from the derailment and the fresh rails and ballast on the siding where it happened.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 4:37:24 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1103(C44-9W) BNSF 707(C44-9W)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Derailment?  What Derailment?
Title:  Derailment? What Derailment?
Description:  A westbound freight passes a parked MOW job in a chance in a million moment for me. I didn't plan to get the BN hack into the shot, it happened by pure chance! They sure did a rush (but good) job getting the siding back into action after the calamity of the coal train derailment on June 30th, 2010.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 4:55:32 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 707(C44-9W) BNSF 1103(C44-9W)
Views:  538   Comments: 2
"What am I doing?!"
Title:  "What am I doing?!"
Description:  "What am I doing?" I asked myself as I grabbed this sub-standard shot of an eastbound BNSF freight heading down the old Great Northern with Minnesota's captiol city in the distance. Train had a CSX and an ex-Conrail unit up in front of that pure Santa Fe 'bonnet.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 10:37:12 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 677(C44-9W)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
Passing Bandana
Title:  Passing Bandana
Description:  A pair of dash-nines is the motive power at the disposal of this westbound freight consisting of one covered hopper and mostly tank cars. An ethanol move?
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 12:45:13 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5503(C44-9W) BNSF 4310(C44-9W)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
Engines At The Yard
Title:  Engines At The Yard
Description:  No less than four units at Ford Yard today. Thought I only would find two. Lucky break!
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 5:09:13 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  CP 4509(GP38-2) SOO 4439(GP38-2) SOO 6038(SD60) CP 5750(SD40-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 2
Sweet Soo Disguised And Pure
Title:  Sweet Soo Disguised And Pure
Description:  A repainted Soo 38-2 and a still pure red-and-white sibling ilde at the end of Ford Yard on a cold. crisp Pearl Harbor Remembrance day.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/8/2010 11:03:06 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  CP 4509(GP38-2) SOO 4439(GP38-2)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Ford Yard office
Title:  Ford Yard office
Description:  Here's the modest place the Milwaukee Road built for the Ford Yard office. Not sure how far back this structure goes, though. May not have been the first built for the yard.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 8:11:06 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
Black Diamond Hauler
Title:  Black Diamond Hauler
Description:  A going away shot of a coal train passing the Bandana Square parking garage.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/18/2010 5:07:23 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6232(ES44AC) BNSF 8873(SD70MAC)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Won't Ever Tire Of This Vantage Point
Title:  Won't Ever Tire Of This Vantage Point
Description:  Thank heavens they built a parking garage at Bandana Square that's usually quiet even on weekdays. From there you can get shots of trains like this one.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 12:45:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4310(C44-9W) BNSF 5503(C44-9W)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
Beep Beep And Beep Beep
Title:  Beep Beep And Beep Beep
Description:  So titled because the hogger on this coal train headed east past Bandana Square kept blowing the air horn for some reason.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/18/2010 5:05:37 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8873(SD70MAC) BNSF 6232(ES44AC)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Sign says it all
Title:  Sign says it all
Description:  This old Soo Line era sign says it all at the entrance to the vest pocket-sized parking lot at the Ford yard.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 7:42:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Soo Geep
Title:  Soo Geep
Description:  A close-up of this unit at Ford yard.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 5:09:00 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  SOO 4439(GP38-2)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
SDs Here?!
Title:  SDs Here?!
Description:  Surprised that these C-C trucked babies could make it up the Ford Branch. Nevertheless, there they were.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/10/2010 5:08:21 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  SOO 6038(SD60) CP 5750(SD40-2)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
First Of 2011!
Title:  First Of 2011!
Description:  My first catch of 2011 turned out to be this westbound freight crossing Pinto Drive as the hogger let 'em roll down the CP/Soo Paynesville sub beneath grey late winter skies. I was surprised to see the NS unit.
Photo Date:  3/11/2011  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 10:16:12 AM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  CP 8820(ES44AC) NS 9833(C40-9W) CP 9557(AC44CW)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
Away She Rolls
Title:  Away She Rolls
Description:  Up ahead lies Loretto, Rockford, and then on to Buffalo on old Soo rails. Pic was taken from near Pinto drive.
Photo Date:  3/11/2011  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 10:16:22 AM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  CP 9557(AC44CW) CP 8886(ES44AC) CP 8820(ES44AC)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
BNSF 7204 Roster Shot
Title:  BNSF 7204 Roster Shot
Description:  Roster shot of this unit getting her engine revved during a test outside the Northtown diesel shop.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/5/2011 10:53:00 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 7204(ES44DC)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Back On Home Rails
Title:  Back On Home Rails
Description:  Ex-NP/BN 1544 reposes at the Northtown diesel shop. Northtown originally was a NP facility greatly changed and expanded after the BN merger.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/9/2011 3:08:01 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 1544(GP28P)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
BNSF 2792
Title:  BNSF 2792
Description:  Close-up view of this unit.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/9/2011 9:30:58 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  176   Comments: 0
Yellowbonnet And Varnish
Title:  Yellowbonnet And Varnish
Description:  You never know what you'll encounter at Northtown Yard. Lo and behold this lashup I found. Couldn't get the passenger car names and numbers, but turned out otherwise pretty good.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/9/2011 9:30:44 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  199   Comments: 0
Looking up the Skally
Title:  Looking up the Skally
Description:  Amazingly the entire Skally line is intact in WBL itself, ending up in Hugo to the north and Maplewood to the south. Rest of the route in the eastern TC metro is without rails and now largely trails. Here, though, it is easy to imagine the glory days when not only NP but Milwaukee and C&NW trains graced these rails going to and from the Twin Ports.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/3/2011 2:34:33 AM
Location:  White Bear Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  276   Comments: 0
Northtown turntable
Title:  Northtown turntable
Description:  No roundhouse in sight, nor any other tracks surround it, but here it sits on the other side of the 44th Avenue bridge across from the diesel shop.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/3/2011 2:45:11 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  164   Comments: 0
NP 1285 And Old Glory
Title:  NP 1285 And Old Glory
Description:  Title says it all.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/5/2011 10:52:44 PM
Location:  White Bear Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  147   Comments: 0
NP 1285
Title:  NP 1285
Description:  An old NP wood caboose graces the grounds of the White Bear Lake depot.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/3/2011 2:26:14 AM
Location:  White Bear Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  274   Comments: 0
WBL Depot
Title:  WBL Depot
Description:  Now in the midst of eastern Twin City suburbia, the former Northern Pacific/Burlington Northern station in White Bear Lake is still extant as a museum today. Trains even still pass by in the form of locals run by the Minnesota Commercial railway which leases the former NP "Skally" line in the foreground from the BNSF.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/3/2011 2:26:34 AM
Location:  White Bear Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  181   Comments: 0
Cascade Greens And An H-3
Title:  Cascade Greens And An H-3
Description:  Very colorful trio.
Photo Date:  4/2/2011  Upload Date: 4/9/2011 9:35:38 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8155(SD60M) BNSF 8151(SD60M) BNSF 1899(SD40-2)
Views:  1029   Comments: 0
Milepost 158
Title:  Milepost 158
Description:  A roster shot of the second former Boise-Cascade boxcar I saw at the business located at Yankee Doodle and Dodd roads with a milepost sign included in the composition for extra interest.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 7:12:12 PM
Location:  Eagan, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
TR 150348 Roster View
Title:  TR 150348 Roster View
Description:  Close up of this ex-Boise-Cascade boxcar.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 7:11:54 PM
Location:  Eagan, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  99   Comments: 1
What Keeps The Line Intact
Title:  What Keeps The Line Intact
Description:  South of 494 in Eagan, the old Milwaukee I & M line thrives under the operation of Progressive Rail, serving customers such a this business located at Yankee Doodle and Dodd roads.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/16/2011 8:53:40 PM
Location:  Eagan, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  194   Comments: 0
Now On Her Third Owner
Title:  Now On Her Third Owner
Description:  When it first graced these rails, 4507 wore the orange and black of the Milwaukee Road. Now this unit sports the CP "dual flag" scheme from the 1990's but is still at home. Could use a new coat of paint what with that "tag" junk on the long hood. Maybe CP could make her their Milwaukee Road "Heritage" unit?
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:33:34 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 4507(GP38-2)
Views:  137   Comments: 0
CP 6068 Roster shot
Title:  CP 6068 Roster shot
Description:  Roster shot of this unit.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:23:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 6068(SD40-2)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Flooding?  What flooding?
Title:  Flooding? What flooding?
Description:  The Pigs Eye hump power goes about their duties despite the flood threat from nearby Old Man River. Glad I wound up getting the DME or ICE unit on the right got into the shot.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:23:46 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CP 6068(SD40-2) SOO 1537(MP15AC)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
BNSF 4064 Roster View
Title:  BNSF 4064 Roster View
Description:  Roster shot.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 7:19:49 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4064(C44-9W)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
BNSF 4531 Roster View
Title:  BNSF 4531 Roster View
Description:  Note the snow remaining on the pilot, a souvenier of an early spring snow the night before.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 6:52:20 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4531(C44-9W)
Views:  86   Comments: 0
Why Hello Again!
Title:  Why Hello Again!
Description:  I first caught this job out in Wayzata. Then here it came roaring through Newport a couple hours later!
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 7:22:22 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4531(C44-9W) BNSF 690(C44-9W) BNSF 4064(C44-9W)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
Why I Doubled Back
Title:  Why I Doubled Back
Description:  Another roster shot of the 690. I was heading out to the Newport club's flea market at Woodbury High School when I saw an eastbound grain train in the siding with this warbonnet as the second of three units, and one in the "Santa Fe" version, not the "BNSF" one!
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 6:58:52 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 690(C44-9W)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Rotten Orange But Still Sweet
Title:  Rotten Orange But Still Sweet
Description:  "Bandit" Soo/Milwaukee 4512 and repainted sister 4507 is the duo at the fingertips of the hogger doing some switching at the southernmost end of Pigs Eye yard. My own nickname for these units is "rotten oranges", but ah they are fruit that still are sweet for the eyes. The closest I will ever come to having seen the Milwaukee in action beyond a museum.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:45:42 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  SOO 4512(GP38-2)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
Caboose A Flatcar And The Flag
Title:  Caboose A Flatcar And The Flag
Description:  Getting Old Glory into the composition was pure luck. Sure love those center-cupola Soo hacks.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 7:16:43 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  245   Comments: 0
SOO 51
Title:  SOO 51
Description:  Roster view.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 9:52:23 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
SOO 4413 Roster Shot
Title:  SOO 4413 Roster Shot
Description:  Roster view.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 10:03:26 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  SOO 4413(GP38-2)
Views:  258   Comments: 0
SOO 4447
Title:  SOO 4447
Description:  Roster view. "Soo" on long hood is well-worn.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 10:03:43 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  SOO 4447(GP38-2)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Roseport Job?
Title:  Roseport Job?
Description:  This Soo line duo sitting unmanned had a string of tank cars behind them. Was this the Roseport job waiting for a crew to take it into Pigs Eye, or some other job?
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 10:03:13 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  SOO 4413(GP38-2) SOO 4447(GP38-2)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
BNSF 690 Roster View
Title:  BNSF 690 Roster View
Description:  Roster shot. Note the white "BNSF" initials now under the cab side window.
Photo Date:  4/16/2011  Upload Date: 4/17/2011 6:58:24 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 690(C44-9W)
Views:  350   Comments: 0


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