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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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Last two of a quartet
Title:  Last two of a quartet
Description:  The third and fourth units of a four unit quartet I caught pulling up in the Pig's Eye engine terminal. CP sure must intened to hang on to the rest of their ex-Soo SD60s if they are repainting 'em.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 5:21:56 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 6245(SD60) CP 5929(SD40-2)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
Old and new paint jobs
Title:  Old and new paint jobs
Description:  This DM&E unit is in a lash-up of CP units that have just pulled up to near the CP diesel house at Pig's Eye yard this day. Note the freshly-painted ex-Soo Line SD60 behind it.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 11:01:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DME 6056(SD40-2) CP 6245(SD60)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
DME 6056
Title:  DME 6056
Description:  Roster view of this unit in a lash-up of CP units at the Pigs Eye loco service facility. As soon as I had snapped this, the lashup began to move!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 11:00:58 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DME 6056(SD40-2)
Views:  94   Comments: 0
Back under CP ownership and a brand-new baby
Title:  Back under CP ownership and a brand-new baby
Description:  Nobody could have guessed that when the CP sold 6072 and some siblings to the DME they would own the unit once again. The brand-new CP ECO unit provides a sharp contrast.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/26/2013 9:57:21 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  DME 6072(SD40-3) CP 2213(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
The elegance of yesterday
Title:  The elegance of yesterday
Description:  The doorway into/out of SPUD at the "Historic Stair" platform reeks of the elegance of yesterday.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:21:38 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  64   Comments: 0
Faded Ball and Bar
Title:  Faded Ball and Bar
Description:  An ex-Chicago and North Western covered hopper now stenciled for Greenbrier Management Services sits in a very long lash-up of freight cars parked in downtown Saint Paul within spitting distance of Warner Road. I found they led all the way up to a pair of MP15s stopped below Dayton's Bluff!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:59:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Ready for some kind of rails?
Title:  Ready for some kind of rails?
Description:  This recreated historic station platform can be found via the "Historic stair" gate at SPUD. But note how A. there is gravel ballst on both sides of it and B. yellow "saftey stripes" just like you can find on LRT platforms. This platform looks like it is ready for some kind of rails in the near-future; right now only Snoopy and Woodstock wait on the platform. Note the double doors that once led to other platforms along the concourse building in the background.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:21:16 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  85   Comments: 0
Kellogg Entry
Title:  Kellogg Entry
Description:  Here at SPUD is where you can access underground parking; grab a taxi; or claim your baggage at down in the new wing of the depot along Kellogg Blvd.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:52:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Long line of coil cars
Title:  Long line of coil cars
Description:  A long line of steel coil cars sits at UP East Minneapolis yard beneath gloomy April skies due to bring April (rain) showers to the Twin Cities. How many of these were from UP's spur out to Plymouth?
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:43:33 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Looking towards the head house
Title:  Looking towards the head house
Description:  Here we are inside the portion of SPUD that crosses over Kellogg Blvd looking towards the head house. Restrooms and the station guest services/security offices are behind the brown windows at the right.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:32:18 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  37   Comments: 0
MNWX 333 at the Master Track Scale
Title:  MNWX 333 at the Master Track Scale
Description:  The state of Minnesota's scale test car reposes at the Master Track Scale house beneath grey April skies.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:37:56 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  142   Comments: 0
Welcome to the Master Track Scale!
Title:  Welcome to the Master Track Scale!
Description:  Here is the Master Track Scale building from the other side; it stands across from the Minnesota Commercial roundhouse. Judging by the Biffy there, it lacks indoor plumbing!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:38:38 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
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Views:  52   Comments: 0
Gotcha at last, 2002!
Title:  Gotcha at last, 2002!
Description:  As I was heading east on Central, this unit suddenly appeared and crossed the Minnesota Transfer-vintage bridge that carries the MNNR over the road (and now LRT corridor); since I was bound for the other side of the MNNR Cleveland Avenue roundhouse, I was able to catch this boy after he got there.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:43:06 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 2002(B23-7)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
Love those Alcos!
Title:  Love those Alcos!
Description:  Ah I love the sight of Alcos! Here two of the MNNR's big boys repose at the roundhouse making for a great "present" for my 33rd birthday train shoot. The 313's paint seems fresher than the 314's; was she recently repainted? Note the MOW vehicle in the right foreground.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:50:02 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 314(C424) MNNR 313(C424)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
Tying down the 84 and 58
Title:  Tying down the 84 and 58
Description:  Shortly after MNNR 2002 arrived, these two units arrived running light southbound to the roundhouse. The crewman on the 84 is setting the handbrake as the units idle.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:43:32 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 84(B39-8E) MNNR 58(B39-8E)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
Ex-BNSF 3964
Title:  Ex-BNSF 3964
Description:  Here is the MNNR's recently acquired yard slug stashed on the rusty spur trackage leading into the liquor warehouse across from the roundhouse.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:49:14 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  BNSF 3964(Yard Slug)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
From rails to roads
Title:  From rails to roads
Description:  Here we are at the platforms for MTC buses at the?rennovated Saint Paul Union Depot concourse. Road may have replaced rail here, but not entirely!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 4:18:08 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  54   Comments: 0
The new wing at SPUD
Title:  The new wing at SPUD
Description:  Here is the new (parking-related- wing at SPUD along Kellogg Blvd. Despite the modern touches it compliments the historic depot quite well.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:53:15 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
NREX 4227 and 4221
Title:  NREX 4227 and 4221
Description:  Roster view of two ex-Santa Fe units the MNNR has recently added to their roster as they repose behind the fence at the Cleveland Avenue roundhouse
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 7:49:38 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  NREX 4227(B23-7) NREX 4221(B23-7)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
NS 9798
Title:  NS 9798
Description:  Roster shot of this unit that -along with NS 9915- was at UP East Minneapolis this day.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:18:34 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 9798(C40-9W)
Views:  61   Comments: 0
NS 9918
Title:  NS 9918
Description:  Roster shot of this NS unit that -along with NS 9798- was at UP East Minneapolis this day. !Uncle Pete sure does like to use Thuroughbreds!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:18:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 9918(C40-9W)
Views:  81   Comments: 0
Love those bandits!
Title:  Love those bandits!
Description:  A veteran Soo/Milwaukee "bandit" reposes at the head of a line of Soo Line SD60s on the south side of the engine terminal area at Pigs Eye yard.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/25/2013 10:31:45 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Soo/Milwaukee
Title:  Soo/Milwaukee
Description:  A former Milwaukee Road "bandit" GP40 sits at the head of a quartet of SD60s on the south side of the engine service area at Pig's Eye. The fluttering wind socket is indicative of the sharp winds blowing at the head of a band of rain approaching St. Paul this day.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:36:38 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2064(GP40) SOO 6053(SD60) SOO 6024(SD60)
Views:  207   Comments: 1
Wow!
Title:  Wow!
Description:  "Wow!" was my first reaction upon stepping into the recently reopned Saint Paul Union Depot concourse.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:16:13 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
You can enter at last!
Title:  You can enter at last!
Description:  For the longest time a partition containing a single (locked) door barred the way here at SPUD. Now you can enter at last! I love this station.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 6:10:27 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  37   Comments: 0
A forbidden view no more
Title:  A forbidden view no more
Description:  For the longest time this view was blocked off thanks to SPUD's concourse being closed. No longer!
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 6:04:54 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
Love SPUD's main entrance!
Title:  Love SPUD's main entrance!
Description:  I love how classy Saint Paul Union Depot's main entrance looks. Sure it is a little "somber", but I wouldn't call it "drab"; Amtrak Midway is the drab depot in town, folks.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:46:07 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
Christo's is still at SPUD
Title:  Christo's is still at SPUD
Description:  St. Paul Union Depot's sole full-time dining establishment -Christo's- is still here, and still closed on Sundays.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 6:03:27 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
Inside SPUD's head house
Title:  Inside SPUD's head house
Description:  Sad to say, the coffee shop that used to exsist in the left foreground is no more.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 6:03:46 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  44   Comments: 0
SPUD over Kellogg Blvd; east side
Title:  SPUD over Kellogg Blvd; east side
Description:  One of the most unique aspects of St. Paul Union Depot is how it's concourse crosses over Kellogg Blvd. Here it is on the east side of the depot.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:57:53 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  52   Comments: 0
SPUD over Kellogg Blvd.; west side
Title:  SPUD over Kellogg Blvd.; west side
Description:  Title says it all; this has got to be one of the coolest things about St. Paul Union Depot (to me, anyway!)
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/23/2013 3:58:16 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  49   Comments: 0
What was this for?
Title:  What was this for?
Description:  An underground tunnelt at St. Paul Union Depot. What was this for, and what will it be used for now?
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/24/2013 5:38:39 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  66   Comments: 1
Back at the Belt
Title:  Back at the Belt
Description:  I first saw these units running light up to Dayton's Bluff; lo and behold, they soon appeared at the Belt Yard. Note how the 2268 is "tagged" on this side of the long hood.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:47:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 2268(SD60M) UP 2070(GP60)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
Belt Yard bound
Title:  Belt Yard bound
Description:  A GP60 and a wide-nosed SD60 run light up to "The Bluff" (Dayton's Bluff) before heading back down into the Belt Yard.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:47:20 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2268(SD60M) UP 2070(GP60)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
Classic EMDs
Title:  Classic EMDs
Description:  Found these two untis at the Belt Yard. They were either the yard goats or transfer power.
Photo Date:  4/21/2013  Upload Date: 4/27/2013 1:46:12 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 3279(SD40-2) UP 2999(SD40-2)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
April morning
Title:  April morning
Description:  Two hours after a gorgeous April morning dawned witnessed this eastbound BNSF freight get flagged by the dispatcher before getting clearance to roll on into Minneapolis. What a lovely sight it made!
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:15:58 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7866(ES44DC) NS 9401(C40-9W)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
In your face!
Title:  In your face!
Description:  Man this pic turned out nice! The crew of this eastbound freight gets a wheel into their train as they leave a red signal in Long Lake behind on a lovely April Sunday mornng.
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:16:15 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7866(ES44DC) NS 9491(C40-9W)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
Crawling into the hole
Title:  Crawling into the hole
Description:  An eastbound (sand?) unit train crawls into the hole at Long Lake for a meet in a few hours with a westbound on the Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:55:05 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5375(C44-9W) UP 4001(SD70M) UP 8319(SD70ACe)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
What is this stuff?
Title:  What is this stuff?
Description:  What is this stuff I saw in these gondolas; pipes?
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:16:33 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  88   Comments: 3
Flats with rails?
Title:  Flats with rails?
Description:  These flat cars have rails on their beds?
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:17:22 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  57   Comments: 1
Slow order boards
Title:  Slow order boards
Description:  These slow order boards can be seen from the Long Lake trail bridge over the Wayzata sub; another pair can be found in view of the County15/Highway 12 connection bridge in Wayzata. Must be work going on here currently or something?
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:07:27 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Two Uncle Petes and a Pumpkin
Title:  Two Uncle Petes and a Pumpkin
Description:  This eastbound unit (sand?) train taking the siding in Long Lake on this April Sunday afternoon had two UP units along with a BNSF one at the crew's disposal. There was no DPU unit on the hind end, incidentally.
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:40:43 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8319(SD70ACe) UP 4001(SD70M) BNSF 5375(C44-9W)
Views:  237   Comments: 1
What is this doing here?
Title:  What is this doing here?
Description:  What is this doing here? Anybody know? I caught it in the consist of an eastbound mixed freight in Long Lake .
Photo Date:  4/28/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:17:47 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  149   Comments: 1
On by the slow order board
Title:  On by the slow order board
Description:  An eastbound freight storming through Long Lake this morning rumbles by the yellow slow order board recently staked along the main track and siding here.
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 10:19:57 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 7596(ES40DC) BNSF 5195(C44-9W)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Eastbound tonnage
Title:  Eastbound tonnage
Description:  An eastbound mixed freight hustles through Long Lake on the morning of the last day of April 2013.
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 10:19:43 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5195(C44-9W) NS 7596(ES40DC)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
Loaded centerbeam and empty gondola
Title:  Loaded centerbeam and empty gondola
Description:  Parked on two spur tracks that jut off the track into the PGR Bloomington freight house were these two cars: an empty gondola and a
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 9:53:25 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
PGR 36 and lumber flats
Title:  PGR 36 and lumber flats
Description:  On a cool (but not chilly) afternoon on the last day of April, PGR 36 sits coupled to two loaded centerbeam flats at the PGR freight house in Bloomington.
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 9:52:55 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Passing trains: take two
Title:  Passing trains: take two
Description:  The crew aboard this westbound general freight ease on past an eastbound unit oil train as a game of musical chairs on the Wayzata sub nears completion.
Photo Date:  5/4/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 4:23:53 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6038(ES44AC) BNSF 5377(C44-9W) BNSF 4904(C44-9W)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Eastbound oil taking the siding
Title:  Eastbound oil taking the siding
Description:  The crew of this eastbound unit oil train had to wait for another eastbound train -a general freight- to clear before they could take the siding and pass an oncoming westboud general freight this day. The Wayzata sub sure can be busy!
Photo Date:  5/4/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 4:35:20 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4936(C44-9W) CSX 7640(C40-8)
Views:  154   Comments: 0
All clear!
Title:  All clear!
Description:  With the eastbound oil train clear, the crew on this westbound general freight get ready to rock and roll on out of town headed west.
Photo Date:  5/4/2013  Upload Date: 5/4/2013 4:23:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4904(C44-9W) BNSF 5377(C44-9W) BNSF 6038(ES44AC)
Views:  172   Comments: 0


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