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| Title: |
End of the Soo Line passenger main |
| Description: |
This is a favorite picture of mine looking southwest on the Soo Line near North St. Paul, MN. This is the end of this beautiful line as the scrappers have begun to move the track behind me about 10 miles. This was the route of Soo Lines St. Paul to Chicago passenger trains until January 1965 and is now part of the Gateway Bike Trail |
| Photo Date: |
4/1/1980 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 2:16:50 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Springs, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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229 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CNW at North Line Jct. |
| Description: |
A locals power is coming off the west leg of the wye near Hudson as an eastbound train climbs the hill out of the St. Croix River Valley |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 5:27:17 PM |
| Location: |
Hudson, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 4124(GP7R) CNW 6828(SD40-2) |
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324 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Race at slow speed |
| Description: |
The local and eastbound manifest train follow each other for a short ways, as the local heads to the east leg of the wye to retrieve their train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 5:29:00 PM |
| Location: |
Hudson, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 6828(SD40-2) CNW 4124(GP7R) |
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351 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Heading east |
| Description: |
The locals power heads along side the eastbound train on a somewhat shaky looking westbound main. The train is just out of sight near the east leg of the wye. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 5:33:03 PM |
| Location: |
Hudson, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 4198(GP7R) |
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228 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Unwanted and awaiting their fate |
| Description: |
More GN/CBQ/NP cars sit forlornly in WBL as they wait for their last trip to whichever scrapper cut them to pieces. I still find it sad that the US so completely lost its love affair with the passenger train so quickly. I think we have paid for it dearly. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:34:15 AM |
| Location: |
White Bear Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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234 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unwanted and awaiting their fate |
| Description: |
This is one of the places old passenger cars went to die in the MSP area in the late 70s and early 80s. Many of these cars were in the downtown St. Paul depot until they were moved to this small yard on the M&D line in White Bear Lake. There were dozens of them that I am sure were scrapped not too long after these pictures were taken. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:32:10 AM |
| Location: |
White Bear Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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219 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Unwanted and awaiting their fate |
| Description: |
This is the last of 3 I will post here, and I do hope that maybe one or two of these old troopers found some organization to give them a home. We lost thousands of passenger cars to the scrappers in the 1970s as Amtrak cut passenger service in half in one day on May 1st, 1971. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:37:45 AM |
| Location: |
White Bear Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger |
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214 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rock Island bridge looking west. |
| Description: |
A few months after the bridge was closed, and before all the trees and vegetation took over, the main line is silent over the Mississippi River in St. Paul Park, MN. A pile of sand/dirt has been dumped to keep stray cars from wandering from the refinery onto the bridge. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 5:40:51 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul Park, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Track |
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166 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Awaiting a new owner or the scrapper. |
| Description: |
A long string of boxcars that were displaced on April 1st, await the trustees sale to new owners. We are looking south at Inver Grove Height yard and the old CGW/CNW main that is also on borrowed time south of here about 15 miles, as the CNW will purchase the RI main and abandon this line south of Rosemont in a couple years. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 5:44:10 PM |
| Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Track |
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176 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A new look that didnt last long. Wonder if it is still around? |
| Description: |
A Rock Island gondola awaits a new owner at Inver Grove Height Yard, and will be there for awhile, as the trustee disposes of alot of equipment, buildings and track over the next few years. |
| Photo Date: |
7/20/1980 Upload Date: 11/7/2016 6:01:10 PM |
| Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
RollingStock |
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337 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long lost junction |
| Description: |
Looking south at the crossing of the Soo Line passenger main and the BN(ex NP) branchline at Duluth Jct. You can see the milepost from Chicago on the right and the line ended near downtown St. Paul, MN at Trout Brook Junction. The BN branch went from White Bear Lake to Stillwater, MN, a distance of about 12 miles. The scrappers were removing the line behind me a few miles. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/25/2016 2:31:00 AM |
| Location: |
Duluth Junction, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track |
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293 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Soo Line looking west |
| Description: |
You are looking west towards Hwy 15 in Washington Cty and the previous shot of the rail removal crane is right behind me. This is the last couple days that this view will exist, and we can imagine Train 5 coming at 49 mph towards Chippewa Falls and Chicago. Within about 6 weeks this 15 mile stretch of track will be gone. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 3:03:54 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track |
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250 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The sad end |
| Description: |
This is something I saw way too much of in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the early to mid 1980s. The rail removal trains working their death march on so many lines. This is on the Soo Line in rural Washington County east of Hwy 15 picking up rail as it progresses west to North St. Paul picking up the old passenger main from Carnelian Lake. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 3:00:07 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track |
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274 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
My one and only carnage shot. |
| Description: |
This is the 3rd shot ahead of the rail crane, and it was one of the only shots I ever took of track dismantling. There was something appalling to me about it. When I walked up on this scene, I thought of all the hard work and effort that went into creating our railroads ending up in a heaping mess of scrap. It is hard to imagine the tens of thousands of miles of railroad removed around the country during this decade. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 3:14:28 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track |
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287 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Arrowhead |
| Description: |
Amtrak ran a train from sometime in 1978 until October 24th, 1981 that ran overnight from Chicago to Duluth via the Twin Cities. This train had a sleeper car on it, which you can see here. The train is passing the old GN station(now operator shanty) at Hinckley, MN about 1015 a.m. on the way to Duluth. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1980 Upload Date: 7/15/2016 2:24:36 AM |
| Location: |
Hinckley, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 247(F40PHR) |
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475 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Alot of cold steel! |
| Description: |
This is a look at the Soo Line High Bridge between MN and WI in the early 1980s. This was an imposing bridge that was beautifully designed with large arches and opened in 1911. Still being used everyday by the CN. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/19/2016 2:23:44 AM |
| Location: |
Arcola, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Winter |
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152 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound BN train at Newport |
| Description: |
This is not my favorite shot of the gloomy, winter days that often occurred in MN, but it does show the neat old semaphore that protected southbounds at Newport. A middle clear meant Main 2 and a bottom clear meant off to the Rock Island. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 10:38:47 PM |
| Location: |
Newport, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6532(SD45) |
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292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound BN train at Newport |
| Description: |
This departing shot of the same train at Newport shows the opposite semaphores on Main 2 that protected the Rock Island and crossover moves to Main 1. There was a new crossover built to make it a double crossover a few years after this picture. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 10:41:15 PM |
| Location: |
Newport, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Action |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Train in the winter fog |
| Description: |
Another of our gloomy days in Minnesota at Milwaukee Roads Bayport turn heads east to Andersen Window Corporation. This train train had just begun to use this line after abandoning their frail, yet beautiful line along the St. Croix River just a year or two earlier. |
| Photo Date: |
3/1/1981 Upload Date: 7/19/2016 2:36:58 AM |
| Location: |
Oakdale, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 2016(GP40) |
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232 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Barge facility engine |
| Description: |
This little guy spent alot of years along the Mississippi River at a coal transloading facility near the Milwaukee Roads St. Paul Yard. Not sure when this operation quit. |
| Photo Date: |
4/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 2:40:29 AM |
| Location: |
St. Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
GLCD 320(SW1) |
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270 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Who has the right-of-way? |
| Description: |
This picture is on the CMN, ex IC line near downtown Madison, WI of a complex intersection that the track dissected at a 45 degree angle. There was a switch that Rich had to push to stop traffic in all directions to allow the train to pass. Heading southbound. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1981 Upload Date: 7/27/2016 1:23:49 PM |
| Location: |
Madison, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track,Action |
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640 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Steam Power |
| Description: |
Here on one of its first trips after restoration, the 328 and train is being ferried home on the Stillwater branch on the BNs Transfer one during the last year of operation of this line by BN. The train has just been out for the Lumberjack Days celebration. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1981 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 10:43:15 AM |
| Location: |
Stillwater, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP 328(4-6-0) |
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445 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Steam train ferry move |
| Description: |
Transfer One is heading soutbound for Daytons Bluff Yard after bringing the NP 328 and train back from its one and only trip on the entire Stillwater branch line. This isi Beam Ave bridge, which was almost new at the time, and is now a bike trail. |
| Photo Date: |
7/25/1981 Upload Date: 7/18/2016 2:05:17 AM |
| Location: |
Maplewood, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Steam,Passenger,Action |
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183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Saunders Yard |
| Description: |
Facing north looking at the empty Saunders Yard on BN in south Superior. This is all gone now, and I believe at one time was used to sort iron ore cars out,and probably local traffic for the area. |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1981 Upload Date: 7/19/2016 2:39:55 AM |
| Location: |
Saunders, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
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128 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CMN caboose |
| Description: |
Here at Monroe, this Chicago, Madison and Northern caboose sits near the old Milwaukee Road Depot |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/13/2016 2:19:52 PM |
| Location: |
Monroe, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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287 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CMN passenger car |
| Description: |
This was in front of the Milwaukee Road depot, and I always thought this was a great paint scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/14/2016 2:27:04 AM |
| Location: |
Monroe, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster |
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335 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CNW westbound freight |
| Description: |
On a typical overcast, grey Wisconsin day, a train passes the Hudson depot on the CNW just before crossing the river into Minnesota. This depot would last a few more years before being demolished. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 9:07:48 PM |
| Location: |
Hudson, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 960(SD45) |
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412 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
CMN Biz train |
| Description: |
I posted one other shot of this train Monroe WI and this is a better view of the entire consist. It was a handsome, looking train. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:29:08 AM |
| Location: |
Monroe, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
CMN 1689(RSD5) |
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535 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
BN ore train |
| Description: |
Here an eastbound ore train coming by St. Croix Tower heading towards Prescott |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1982 Upload Date: 7/10/2016 10:42:49 PM |
| Location: |
Hastings, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6443(SD45) |
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226 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BN ore train |
| Description: |
Here is one more view with all the heavy duty power up front. These trains were restricted to 35 mph on BN. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/1982 Upload Date: 7/10/2016 10:46:51 PM |
| Location: |
Hastings, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
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172 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Looking south at North Branch |
| Description: |
A northbound Milwaukee Road freight is crossing Hwy 95 on the old BN Skally line. The line was abandoned from this highwy xing to Hugo, MN in 1988 and is now served by the St. Croix Vailley RR. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:03:14 AM |
| Location: |
North Branch, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5203(SD40) |
| Views: |
337 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road northbound in disguise |
| Description: |
Arriving in Rush City, MN, this Milwaukee Road train that had CN power was common in the early to mid-80s before the line shutdown as a through route in Sept 1986. Here the Rush City local awaits the trains passage, so they could go back to serving the large elevator in town. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 1:12:25 AM |
| Location: |
Rush City, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5203(SD40) |
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289 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Northbound fighting the hill |
| Description: |
Milwaukee Road train from St. Paul to Duluth MN climbing out of Swede Hollow on the former BN/NP route and passing under the CNW 400 route to Chicago. This line is now part of the Bruce Vento trail and was abandoned in 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/27/2016 1:11:11 PM |
| Location: |
St. Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 204(SD40-2) MILW 203(SD40-2) |
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506 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Northbound fighting the hill |
| Description: |
The train has gotten most of its cars off the worst part of the grade and is now coming to Earl Street and ready to swing north towards White Bear Lake. Milwaukee ran two to three trains a day each way to Duluth in these days. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/27/2016 1:13:00 PM |
| Location: |
St. Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 204(SD40-2) MILW 203(SD40-2) |
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435 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
Picking up orders on the fly. |
| Description: |
Here a northbound taconite empty passes through Hinckley and the train order operator has a new set of orders ready on the hoop. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1982 Upload Date: 7/10/2016 10:56:15 PM |
| Location: |
Hinckley, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6827(SD40-2) |
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291 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Amtrak Turboliner visiting Minneapolis |
| Description: |
Looking east near the famous JJ Hill Stone Arch bridge, this Amtrak train made a visit to a railroad days type event near the Pillsbury A mill in Minneapolis. The NP 328 and Soo Line also participated in this event. These tracks to Minneapolis GN station have since been abandoned and the stone arch bridge is a popular walking/biking trail now. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/15/2016 1:28:34 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
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127 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Some serious horsepower! |
| Description: |
This is an eastbound BN freight train coming through Daytons Bluff yard with what would have been the biggest horsepower on the railroad at the time, |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 9:45:49 PM |
| Location: |
St. Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6463(SD45) BN 6594(SDP45) BN 6439(SD45) BN 6906(SD40-2) |
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765 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road SD40-2 |
| Description: |
Number 204 is either heading to or from a Sprint train at St. Paul Yard. I always thought Milwaukees paint scheme was one of the best on and SD40-2. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1982 Upload Date: 7/9/2016 9:13:21 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 204(SD40-2) |
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267 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
UP caboose at Wyoming |
| Description: |
The other CNW train sported a neat UP caboose on the end, and I think a conductor who may have been told by the engineer to watch out for us as they passed. sorry about the yellow blob by the signal! |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/16/2016 5:12:33 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
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210 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for the meet |
| Description: |
The Skalley was ABS with hand throw switches and the brakeman/condr on this soutbound Milwaukee Road train is waiting patiently at the south siding switch for the 3rd northbound to pass, so they can head towards Hugo and White Bear Lake. This is all a bike trail now form Hugo to North Branch. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/16/2016 5:07:39 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Track,Action |
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194 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CNW Northbound |
| Description: |
Here is a northbound CNW train on the BN Skalley line as the south siding switch heading north to Hinckley. There is a train in the siding waiting for them. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/13/2016 2:22:10 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 6922(SD40-2) |
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455 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
3 on 1 meet at Wyoming Milwaukee Road was working closely with GT and CN at this time, as they were power short and cash short after the huge retrenchment in 1980. Merger with GT looked pretty, certain, but did things sure change the next couple years! |
| Description: |
Back in the 1982 to 1984 time frame, the old NP line from St. Paul to Hinckley MN was actually busier than the GN line through Cambridge many days. The CNW and Milwaukee Road ran 2 or 3 trains each way a day, and here we have 3 northbound trains passing a southbound Milwaukee Road train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/16/2016 5:02:18 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
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155 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CNW Northbound |
| Description: |
Right behind the first Milwaukee train was another CNW train giving it some throttle for the 50 mph speed of the track. Looking south at the SSS Wyoming. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/16/2016 5:04:57 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CNW 6893(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
267 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meet at Wyoming |
| Description: |
One of the three northbounds passes the Milwaukee train and a neat CNW caboose is on the rear. Been a long time since I have seen one. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/16/2016 5:11:10 PM |
| Location: |
Wyoming, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CN 5202(SD40) |
| Views: |
303 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Southbound at Bald Eagle |
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This will be my last download for this album, as I think 100 pictures is enough for each. This is another southbound Milwaukee Road train just crossing over the Soo Lines Chicago main line in a late winter scene. |
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3/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/29/2016 2:12:56 AM |
| Location: |
Bald Eagle, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Winter,Action |
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Hinckley Local working |
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Here looking north you can see the local spotting or pulling a customer a few years before the line was severed as a through route. . The tracks were removed from about where I am standing to Hugo in 1988. |
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6/1/1983 Upload Date: 7/18/2016 2:01:07 AM |
| Location: |
North Branch, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Yard,Station,Action |
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Moose Lake Depot |
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This is looking northeast from the yard lead at the Moose Lake depot. Soo Line ran this line, and it mostly handled grain and a daily local from Superior towards Glenwood. It was abandoned in the mid 1990s and is now a bike trail. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1983 Upload Date: 7/26/2016 10:10:02 AM |
| Location: |
Moose Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Station |
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Classy old unit |
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This F unit was in Brodhead and eventually repainted to another nice, livery a few years after this shot. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/15/2016 1:19:23 PM |
| Location: |
Brodhead, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Roster |
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CWC 901(F7A) |
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289 Comments: 0 |
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Milwaukee Road Depot |
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This classy little depot was on the Janesville to Mineral Point line of the Mlwaukee Road and at this time I believe the CMN was running the line. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/15/2016 1:21:16 PM |
| Location: |
Brodhead, WI |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Station |
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177 Comments: 2 |
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Milwaukee Road northbound in disguise |
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Hard to believe this is a Milwaukee Road train, but in the early 80s the Milwaukee was power short, and CN/DWP/GT filled in alot of power slots to help keep the trains moving. This is arriving in Sandstone, WI on the former GN route. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1983 Upload Date: 7/17/2016 3:30:50 AM |
| Location: |
Sandstone, MN |
| Author: |
Tom Dethmers |
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Action |
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