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8/15/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Tony Held
Dates:10/7/2020 - 7/20/2024
Album Info:More train action and other rail scenes from around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.
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Dynamic Milwuakee Duo
Title:  Dynamic Milwuakee Duo
Description:  The "Cedar Rapids" and the "Super Dome" await "Gourmet Express" duty at Hopkins on a partly sunny Friday afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/30/2022  Upload Date: 10/3/2022 8:39:56 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  15   Comments: 0
Golden Oldies
Title:  Golden Oldies
Description:  Two more of the Friends of the 261's golden oldies await "Gourmet Express" duty at Hopkins on a partly sunny Friday afternoon. Whoever thought you could see a Louiville and Nashville passenger car and a vintage California Zephyr dome car on the old Milwaukee Road in Hopkins?
Photo Date:  9/30/2022  Upload Date: 10/3/2022 8:40:28 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
Concession Car And Coaches
Title:  Concession Car And Coaches
Description:  The Friends of the 261's concessions car and coaches "Winona" and "Nokomis" await "Gourmet Express" duty at Hopkins on a partly sunny Friday afternoon..
Photo Date:  9/30/2022  Upload Date: 10/3/2022 8:40:56 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  33   Comments: 0
Waiting Guide
Title:  Waiting Guide
Description:  TCWR 2010 is manned and ready as its crew waits to guide the Friends of the 261's train to Minneapolis late on a partly cloudy Sunday afternoon. The SWLRT rails in the background gives the illusion that The Hopkins Depot coffeehouse has rails beside it again.
Photo Date:  10/2/2022  Upload Date: 10/3/2022 8:41:59 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
Ready, Set...
Title:  Ready, Set...
Description:  TCWR 2010 sits manned and ready near the former Milwaukee Road Hopkins depot late on a Sunday afternoon, ready to guide the Friends of the 261's train back to Minneapolis when it reaches Hopkins.
Photo Date:  10/2/2022  Upload Date: 10/3/2022 8:42:26 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Shiny Paint
Title:  Shiny Paint
Description:  TCWR 2010's paint is practically shiny. That's some paint TC&W uses!
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:33:45 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
Still Imaaculate
Title:  Still Imaaculate
Description:  TCWR 2014's paint is still immaculate several years after being added to the roster. That's durable paint TCWR applies to their units.
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:32:09 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2014(GP38-2)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
Veteran Unit
Title:  Veteran Unit
Description:  I remember when TCWR 2300 would lead the St. Paul Turn. Now she can only come for the ride due to PTC requirements.
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:32:27 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2300(GP39-2)
Views:  47   Comments: 0
Distinctive Face
Title:  Distinctive Face
Description:  I couldn't leave Hopkins this day without snapping another pic of TCWR 2300 that showed its distinctive face.
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:34:11 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2300(GP39-2)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn Is Back
Title:  St. Paul Turn Is Back
Description:  The St. Paul Turn brought some smoothside hoppers, tank cars, and a couple boxcars (the latter out of view to the left) this Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:30:43 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2014(GP38-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
Well What Do You Know?
Title:  Well What Do You Know?
Description:  "Well what do you know?" I said to myself as I got set to take this shot. I'd thought there would only be parked units down by the old Milwaukee Road Hopkins depot, but this trio of units were active, and they had a cut of cars coupled up to them!
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:29:52 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  TCWR 2014(GP38-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn?
Title:  St. Paul Turn?
Description:  My guess is this is the St. Paul Turn, recently returned to Hopkins around 3 P.M. on a mild, sunny Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:31:16 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  TCWR 2014(GP38-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Old And New
Title:  Old And New
Description:  This St. Paul Turn's crew had two new and one older unit for motive power this Saturday. ("New" being recently added to the roster, in TCWR 2014 and 2010's case, and "old" being a roster veteran, in TCWR 2300's case.)
Photo Date:  10/8/2022  Upload Date: 10/9/2022 3:31:43 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2014(GP38-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  49   Comments: 0
Scrap Theft?
Title:  Scrap Theft?
Description:  This rusty spur track north of West 38th Street has a rail removed and tie plates scattered all over like beads from a broken string. Signs of scrap theft?
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:18:40 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
Captive Caboose
Title:  Captive Caboose
Description:  Once this MN&S gem was trotted out for runs on the Hi-Line at the end of Progressive Rail trains. Today this caboose is parked on a spur track noth of West 38th Street that, for some reason, has a rail missing at the switch connecting the track to the rest of the web of spurs in this area. Untl that is fixed, MN&S 102 is, alas, captive. :-(
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:21:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  71   Comments: 0
Southern Vet
Title:  Southern Vet
Description:  It is very cool PGR operates a former Southern unit too, PGR 34.
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:17:03 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 43(SD40M-2)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
Another Angle
Title:  Another Angle
Description:  PGR and 36 and 34 at Lyndale from another angle on a sun-scrubbed Monday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:12:59 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
MN&S Vet
Title:  MN&S Vet
Description:  So cool PGR runs 36, a former MN&S unit, on the Hi-Line. Long may she run!
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:16:08 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
Reunited
Title:  Reunited
Description:  After being sidelined for mechanical repairs, Progressive Rail 36 is back with its compatriot PGR 34 on the Hi-Line. Here the duo soaks up a very mild October sun at Lyndale early on a Monday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:12:20 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
Shaping Up Nicely
Title:  Shaping Up Nicely
Description:  The new connection track from the relocated Twin Cities & Western route through SLP (owned by the Met Council) is shaping up nicely. Rails are being laid now that the bridge over the SWLRT (right) is complete. The SWLRT's Louisiana Avenue staiton is to the left of the bridge.
Photo Date:  10/31/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 9:30:52 PM
Location:  Saint Louis Park, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  26   Comments: 0
Future Junction Site
Title:  Future Junction Site
Description:  The new connection to the Twin Cities & Western will connect with the CP MNS Spur to the north of the Cambridge Street bridge (foreground). The grade is visible to the left of the bridge. Soon rails will reach the CP and a new switch installed, followed, one hopes, by a steady parade of TC&W trains to Port Savage.
Photo Date:  10/31/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 9:34:10 PM
Location:  Saint Louis Park, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Views:  70   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Junction In Late Autumn
Title:  Milwaukee Junction In Late Autumn
Description:  Milwaukee Junction sits quiet on Halloween 2022, surrounded by some late autumn color and the sounds of suburbia.
Photo Date:  10/31/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 9:33:25 PM
Location:  Saint Louis Park, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  59   Comments: 0
Oxford Avenue Bridge
Title:  Oxford Avenue Bridge
Description:  The Oxford Avenue bridge on the connecting track between the Twin Cities & Western and the Canadian Pacific MNS Spur is now connected to the rest of the line after standing isolated for months. The MNS Spur is visible in the background.
Photo Date:  10/31/2022  Upload Date: 10/31/2022 9:31:30 PM
Location:  Saint Louis Park, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Bridge
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Views:  50   Comments: 0
Solo Dolo GP60
Title:  Solo Dolo GP60
Description:  The GP60 for the crew of Union Pacific's Plymouth local is solo dolo on an unusually snowy and chilly Saturday afternoon. I found the engine idling on the main track just east of Highway 169 and swung by to take this shot with my cell phone camera.
Photo Date:  11/19/2022  Upload Date: 11/19/2022 11:37:42 PM
Location:  Golden Valley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1118(GP60)
Views:  71   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Vets
Title:  Union Pacific Vets
Description:  Progressive Rail's current motive power on the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern from Lakeville to Northfield is this pair of Union Pacific vets. Here the duo was paused near Jaguar Avenue while the crew gets air into the brakes of a cut of stored hoppers on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 8:24:32 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1305(GP15AC) ILSX 1304(GP15AC)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
Paused By Jaguar
Title:  Paused By Jaguar
Description:  Progressive Rail's leased GP15 duo waits near Jaguar Avenue as the crew gets air into the brakes of stored cars late on the morning of Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 8:23:13 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
Classy Caboose
Title:  Classy Caboose
Description:  Progressive Rail's snazzy Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern caboose soaks up a mild sun outside PGR's Lakeville headquarters on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:28:14 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
Classy Boxcar
Title:  Classy Boxcar
Description:  Progressive Rail's classy Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern boxcar soaks up a mild sun outside PGR's Lakeville headquarters on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:27:37 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  53   Comments: 0
Orchard Gardens And Telegrah Pole
Title:  Orchard Gardens And Telegrah Pole
Description:  A lone telegraph pole, bent by the elements, stands on the grounds of Orchard Gardens next to the long shut off power box for the nearby 155th Street West grade crossing. On this Thanksgiving Eve, my friend Andy is getting a good look at this lone surviving station stop on the Dan Patch Line (later the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern).
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 7:52:08 PM
Location:  Burnsville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station
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Views:  67   Comments: 0
New Signs
Title:  New Signs
Description:  The Orchard Gardens shelter, a relic from the days the Dan Patch Line served this area, now sports new signs after getting a new paint job a couple years ago.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 7:51:11 PM
Location:  Burnsville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Track
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
At The Freight House
Title:  At The Freight House
Description:  The crew aboard #37 waits at Progressive Rail's freight house on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:45:38 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 37(SW1500)
Views:  62   Comments: 0
PGR Colors
Title:  PGR Colors
Description:  #37's Progressive Rail colors lokk weathered but also sharp as the crew pauses during switching at the Lakeville freight house on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:29:41 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 37(SW1500)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Waiting At 207th
Title:  Waiting At 207th
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew pauses at 207th Street West while switching a shipper--Builders First Source--on a mild Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:26:35 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  76   Comments: 0
Reversing At Jaguar
Title:  Reversing At Jaguar
Description:  The Progressive Rail brakeman hops on the ladder of the last covered hopper as the PGR crew shoves a cut of stored cars across Jaguar Avenue to couple up to a set of cars stored just north of there on Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 8:22:05 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
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Views:  58   Comments: 0
Back To Airlake
Title:  Back To Airlake
Description:  Their switching work complete, the Progressive Rail crew crosses 207th Street West as they take a cut of stored cars south to Airlake Industrial Park late on a gorgeous Wednesday morning.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/24/2022 10:01:58 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
At The Old MNS/MILW Crossing
Title:  At The Old MNS/MILW Crossing
Description:  Southbound with a cut of stored cars (plus one revenue, an empty centerbeam flatcar from Builders First Source , the Progressive Rail crew takes their train across the site of the old MNS/MILW crossing in Lakeville late on a lovely Thanksgiving Eve morning.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/24/2022 10:02:38 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Thanksgiving Eve Train
Title:  Thanksgiving Eve Train
Description:  The Progresive Rail crew takes a cut of stored cars south on the mothballed portion of the former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern main line on a sunny Thanksigivng Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/29/2022 6:25:02 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
Where The Siding Was
Title:  Where The Siding Was
Description:  When the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern operated through Burnsville, there was a sidng at Orchard Gardens. The remains of the siding can be seen at left, next to the overgrown main line. View is looking south from Orchard Gardens.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 7:53:34 PM
Location:  Burnsville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  81   Comments: 0
Approaching Dodd
Title:  Approaching Dodd
Description:  Progressive Rail's stored car southbound move approaches Dodd Boulevard late on the morning of a lovely Thanksgiving Eve 2022.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 8:25:08 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Crossing Dodd
Title:  Crossing Dodd
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew takes a cut of stored hoppers southbound across Dodd Boulevard late on a gorgeous Thanksgiving Eve 2022. Nect stop: picking up an empty centerbeam flat at Builders First Source.
Photo Date:  11/23/2022  Upload Date: 11/30/2022 8:25:46 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ILSX 1304(GP15AC) ILSX 1305(GP15AC)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Mill City
Title:  Mill City
Description:  ADM at East 38th Street in Minneapolis basks beneath partly sunny skies early on a Saturday afternoon. The sight silently proclaims "Mill City" to one and all.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/28/2023 10:59:48 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Track
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/17/2023 8:16:40 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter
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Views:  16   Comments: 0
New Paint Job
Title:  New Paint Job
Description:  Long painted Union Pacific yellow, coach "Merriam Park" now sports a newer, fresher paint scheme as it sits by the MNNR roundhouse late on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/17/2023 8:21:58 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
The Conductor Reboards
Title:  The Conductor Reboards
Description:  The Minnesota Commercial conductor reboards #75 after he and the engineer completed dropping off a healthy cut of smoothside hoppers loaded with flour for ADM on the old Milwaukee Road south of East 38th Street.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 10:58:06 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
Heading For The Old Milwaukee Main
Title:  Heading For The Old Milwaukee Main
Description:  My railfan colleague Andy snaps away as the Hiawatha Job heads for the old Milwaukee Road main line late on a mild February morning.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 10:49:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
Westbound For Hiawatha
Title:  Westbound For Hiawatha
Description:  The Hiawatha Job heads for the trackage bordering the east side of its namesake thuroughfare around the noon hour on a Saturday.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 10:56:52 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
Here Comes The Hiawatha Job!
Title:  Here Comes The Hiawatha Job!
Description:  The Hiawatha Job passes the Minnesota Commercial's roundhouse late on a mild Saturday morning with a healthy cut of loaded smoothside hoppers in tow.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 10:52:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Shoving Up At East 41st
Title:  Shoving Up At East 41st
Description:  The Hiawatha Job shoves a cut of smoothside hoppers from BNSF loaded with flour bound for ADM at East 41st Street during the noon hour on a February Saturday.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 2/27/2023 10:57:32 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
God Bless You, Mr. Gohman
Title:  God Bless You, Mr. Gohman
Description:  MNNR 42 is now dedicated to the late John Gohman, who made the Minnesota Commercial what it is today.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/17/2023 8:18:50 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
Idling At The Sand Tower
Title:  Idling At The Sand Tower
Description:  MNNR 1983 is tended to by a Minnesota Commercial crew as it idles at the sand tower by the roundhouse late on a Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/17/2023 8:17:03 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MNNR 1983(B23-7)
Views:  48   Comments: 0


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