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"This Way To The Twins" |
Description: |
Sign says it all; can be found on all the station platforms on the southbound track side. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:46:27 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Title: |
Glimpse Of Geese |
Description: |
A glimpse of the bronze geese sculpture at Big Lake station as view from the upper level of car 711. Note the office commuter-friendly table in the center foreground. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:58:06 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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133 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Glimpse Of The Coupler |
Description: |
A glimpse of the coupler linking two of the cars on the afternoon train to Marine. The train was stopped when this picture was taken so the engine could run around for the return trip to Osceola. |
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6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:06:42 AM |
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Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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85 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"Two Harbors, Grantsburg, Mora ..." |
Description: |
Mail slots in MTM's Northern Pacific RPO 1102. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:07:05 AM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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245 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"Hinckley, North Branch, Hugo, Moose Lake ..." |
Description: |
More of the mail slots in MTM's RPO car. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:07:24 AM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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238 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
This Must Be The Joint |
Description: |
The station sign for Marine on St. Croix, MN. The normal endpoint for westbound trips on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway. |
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6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:26:17 PM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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82 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Almost There |
Description: |
The crew aboard MTM's Soo Line-painted geep nurse it along the rickety rails of the passing siding at Marine in order to couple up for the northbound return trip to Osceola. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:27:03 PM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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MNTX 559(GP7) |
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245 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
On Down The Wobbly Rails |
Description: |
The crew aboard Minnesota Transportation Museum 559 (a Soo Line-painted GP7) runs long-hood forward down the passing siding at Marine to couple onto the opposite end for the trip back to Osceola. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:27:21 PM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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MNTX 559(GP7) |
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206 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
I Could Not Resist |
Description: |
I couldn't resist a shot of the nose of MTM's geep framed in the doorway of their NP RPO car. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 1:48:14 PM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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MNTX 559(GP7) |
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207 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Osceola, Ho! |
Description: |
A view from MTM's Northern Pacific RPO car as the train heads back to Osceola. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:26:39 PM |
Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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MNTX 559(GP7) |
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350 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Nice Seeing One Along Active Rails! |
Description: |
Near Marine on St. Croix the train passes by a whistle post. Nice seeing one on an active rail line for a change; last I'd photographed was a concrete one in Dodge Center on the long-abandoned Chicago Great Western. |
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6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 1:48:43 PM |
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Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
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Richard Held |
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75 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Austin Milwaukee Road Depot, Parking Lot Side |
Description: |
This is the former Milwaukee Road depot in Austin. It is now divided up between a business, the local DMV, and a charity. Nice how the sign saying "The Milwaukee Road" was retained. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 1:58:53 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Station |
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144 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Austin Milwaukee Road Depot, Track Side |
Description: |
This old depot would make for a fine train excursion departure/arrival point. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 1:59:14 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Station,Track |
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132 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
From A Switch To A Track Bumper |
Description: |
A switch for a now gone spur once jutted off the former Chicago Great Western here. The site of the Cedar River bridge is in the center background. |
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4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:14:16 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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158 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The I-90 Bridge |
Description: |
This is the bridge which carries the former Milwaukee Road over I-90. The track at the left is the old MILW/CGW connector track now used by the Canadian Pacific to access the fragment of surviving CGW track that serves the Hormel plant. |
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4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:15:47 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Track |
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138 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
DME 4002 |
Description: |
Roster view of this classy unit. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:30:48 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
DME 4002(GP40) |
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192 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
End Of Track By Hormel |
Description: |
Here is the end of the former Chicago Great Western track that serves the Hormel plant. I wonder if that track bumper isn't adjustable depending on the traffic needs of the plant? That is an awful lot of spare track there. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 9:44:47 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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225 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
I Wish More Signs Said This |
Description: |
This crossbuck is down by the Hormel plant. I wish more grade crossing signs said "look again" on them. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 5:55:27 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Switch For Hormel |
Description: |
Here we are at the switch for the Hormel plant along the fragment of ex-Chicago Great Western track that exists in Austin. The site of the old CGW bridge over the Cedar River is in the center background. |
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4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:08:08 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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114 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Jackson Local |
Description: |
The Jackson Local idles on the west side of Highway 218. I could not tell if the train was manned or not. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:30:01 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Action |
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DME 4002(GP40) SOO 4444(GP38-2) CP 4403(GP38-2) |
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136 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Jackson Local, View Two |
Description: |
Another view of the Jackson Local as it sits on the west side of the Highway 218 grade crossing. The train may not have been manned. Is this a crew change spot? |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:30:25 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Action |
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DME 4002(GP40) SOO 4444(GP38-2) CP 4403(GP38-2) |
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139 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old CGW By The Hormel Plant |
Description: |
Thanks to the needs of the Hormel plant, a piece of ex-Chicago Great Western track was kept in place even after the Chicago and North Western vacated Austin in 1984. Today the Canadian Pacific's Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern serves Hormel on these rusty but durable rails. |
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4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 9:45:54 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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87 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking North From The Depot |
Description: |
Here we are looking north up the old Milwaukee Road from the former MILW depot. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:13:22 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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63 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Looking South From The Depot |
Description: |
Here we are looking south down the old Milwaukee Road from the MILW depot (at right). |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:14:47 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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50 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
This Piece Of The CGW Still Lives |
Description: |
The former Chicago Great Western Austin line remains intact south of where it crossed the Milwaukee Road. These rusty rails still bear the weight of tank cars destined for Hormel. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 9:45:25 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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138 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Where The Milwaukee and the Great Western Once Joined |
Description: |
This is where the connection track off the Milwaukee Road line to Iowa came in to connect with the Chicago Great Western southwest of the crossing of the two lines. Note the former signal relay box at left and some former CGW track now buried beneath weeds and small trees at right. Photographs of both can be found in my "Railway Archeology" album. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:21:49 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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110 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old CGW Telegraph Pole |
Description: |
An old telegraph pole still stands along the northern half of the surviving stretch of track here. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:19:54 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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96 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Nice Display |
Description: |
The Preston Historical Society restored this old grain elevator and then rebuilt a couple pieces of track next to it to display this Milwaukee Road boxcar and caboose. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:00:19 PM |
Location: |
Preston, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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RollingStock |
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240 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Where The Yard Once Was |
Description: |
This display created by the Preston Historical Society occupies a portion of the footprint of the former Milwaukee Road yard here. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 2:00:40 PM |
Location: |
Preston, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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RollingStock |
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357 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"Caution Rough Tracks" |
Description: |
"Caution Rough Tracks" this sign located by the spur into the Hormel plant says for the benefit of people using the trail leading down to the Cedar River in the foreground. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:15:09 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
From Refrigerated Boxcars To Tank Cars |
Description: |
Hormel used to have referigerated boxcars spotted on the tracks serving the plant. Now tanks cars have taken their place. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/15/2014 1:54:55 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track |
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103 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Unlocked? Seriously?! |
Description: |
This is the switch for the Hormel plant along the surviving piece of ex-CGW track used by CP to serve Hormel. The fact it is not locked floored me. |
Photo Date: |
4/12/2014 Upload Date: 4/17/2014 10:01:09 PM |
Location: |
Austin, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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128 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Where The Blue And Gold Once Parked |
Description: |
CP 4421 idles by the Rochester yard office on a lovely Indian Summer afternoon. 4421 is parked where blue and gold DM&E units sat waiting their next call to local duties once upon a time. Track in foreground leads to ex-CGW spur into the city center. |
Photo Date: |
10/25/2014 Upload Date: 10/26/2014 6:12:18 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
CP 4421(GP38-2) |
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136 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Under New Management |
Description: |
The Rochester yard office now sports a CP sign. The grade crossing signal box sign has not been updated, however, and still says "DM&E." |
Photo Date: |
10/25/2014 Upload Date: 10/26/2014 6:13:07 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Yard |
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74 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Milwaukee Road Display In Winter |
Description: |
A chilly but clear morning sun brilliantly illuminates the Preston Historical Society's Milwaukee Road display placed beneath the town's old grain elevator. To think that the rails in the Milwaukee yard that once existed here came up during the Milwaukee Road's proverbial winter of discontent (i.e., it's third and last bankruptcy). |
Photo Date: |
2/27/2015 Upload Date: 2/27/2015 11:38:01 PM |
Location: |
Preston, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter |
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312 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Milwaukee Shops Vintage |
Description: |
The lettering on this end of the Preston Historical Society's restored Milwaukee Road boxcar records its place of manufacture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
Photo Date: |
2/27/2015 Upload Date: 2/27/2015 11:41:02 PM |
Location: |
Preston, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Icy Milwaukee Caboose |
Description: |
The Preston Historical Society has restored a portion of the former Milwaukee Road yard and placed a boxcar and caboose upon the rails. This old Milwaukee caboose has gotten pretty icy this winter, judging by the icicles hanging off the left side of the roof. I doubt they would be there if this caboose was still in revenue service, however, especially if the heat was on. |
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2/27/2015 Upload Date: 2/27/2015 11:40:18 PM |
Location: |
Preston, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter |
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125 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CNW/UP |
Description: |
The CNW MNDOT sign remains on the north crossbuck of the Dixie Avenue crossing. A UP sign was added after the 1995 UP/CNW merger, but even that is out of date now that Progressive Rail is operating the remaining ex-CGW track from Northfield to Cannon Falls. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:51:07 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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110 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CNW Reminder |
Description: |
The Dixie Avenue crossbucks retain their CNW MNDOT plates. This one is on the south crossbuck. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:49:57 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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108 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Through The Heart Of Downtown Rochester |
Description: |
The former Dakota. Minnesota, and Eastern's ex-CGW spur line to Rochester's south side crosses the Zumbro River on this fancy bridge. A view up the line from this locale reveals how trains wend through the heart of downtown Rochester here. |
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4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/5/2015 3:03:26 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Bridge,Track |
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121 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Depot Still Stands |
Description: |
Though shorn of the main line tracks which once graced its front, the former CGW depot still stands, bearing silent witness to the rail renaissance Progressive Rail is bringing to the area. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/3/2015 11:06:43 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Yard,Station |
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92 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Only Monument To The Winona & Western |
Description: |
The Winona & Western (nee Winona and Southwestern) was an 1890s regional railroad which ran from Winona, Minnesota, to Osage, Iowa, with a branch to Rochester. The W&W later was acquired by the Chicago Great Western, which chipped away the most arduous portions of the road but kept the rest until the Chicago and North Western all but eliminated the route of this upstart railroad. Happily, a portion of the W&W/CGW remains in operation as a spur line to industries located on Rochester's south side. The old W&W/CGW depot survived as well. Today it is a Mexican restaurant. Boy would I love to photograph a train passing this station. |
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4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/5/2015 2:54:06 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Station,Track |
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97 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Former CGW At Dixie Avenue |
Description: |
We are looking east along the former CGW Northfield-Red Wing (Northfield-Cannon Falls today) at Dixie Avenue. Time seems to have stood still here, making it seem like it is still the 1970s, what with the jointed rail and the CNW MNDOT plate on the crossbuck. |
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4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:33:46 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Track |
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136 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CGW Yard And Depot |
Description: |
Here is the former CGW yard and depot as they look today. Note the PGR 74 in the left center background. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:30:50 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Yard,Station,Track |
Locomotives: |
PGR 74(SW1500) |
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332 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Former CGW Yard -- Looking South Towards Cannon Falls Line |
Description: |
We are looking south from the former CGW yard towards the Northfield-Cannon Falls line. The former CGW main was at the left. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:32:28 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Yard,Track |
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145 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Former Crossing -- And Site Of Much More |
Description: |
Here is where the Chicago Great Western main line once crossed the Northfield-Red Wing (today Northfield-Cannon Falls) line. To the right is the site of the first depot the CGW had here. Behind the power pole in the left background is where the Milwaukee Road's competing Red Wing-Northfield branch once was located. There sure is a lot of Minnesota railroad history here in Randolph. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:34:58 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Track |
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120 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Former Winona & Western/Chicago Great Western Depot -- North Side |
Description: |
The north side of the former W&W/CGW depot. Note the historical marker in the right foreground. It provides a sharp contrast to the signs touting various beers in the thriving Mexican restaurant which now occupies the structure. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/5/2015 2:56:35 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Station |
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47 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
From the CGW to PGR |
Description: |
Randolph has gone from the Chicago Great Western to Progressive Rail. May PGR continue to grow and expand its operations here -- up to and including having to rebuild some of the old CGW main north of town. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/3/2015 10:58:43 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
PGR 74(SW1500) |
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187 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
I Knew They Would Have One Of These Here |
Description: |
I had a hunch Progressive Rail would be stationing a locomotive at Randolph. I was proved correct. I was delighted to find it was one of their original units. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/3/2015 10:58:08 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
PGR 74(SW1500) |
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366 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Historical Marker At Rochester Depot |
Description: |
The Friends Of Mayowood put up this neat historical marker down by the former W&W/CGW depot. |
Photo Date: |
4/3/2015 Upload Date: 4/5/2015 3:00:08 PM |
Location: |
Rochester, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Station,Track |
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97 Comments: 0 |
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