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By:Tony Held
Dates:11/20/2010 - 10/30/2022
Album Info:Train stuff from beyond the Twin Cities.
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An Old Gem Still In Use
Title:  An Old Gem Still In Use
Description:  This is the Minneapolis & St. Louis New Prague depot, folks, now owned and operated by its third owner, the Union Pacific. New Prague is an oasis for fans of the Tootin' Louie.
Photo Date:  8/4/2018  Upload Date: 8/4/2018 6:26:16 PM
Location:  New Prague, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Track
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Views:  62   Comments: 0
Down From The Depot
Title:  Down From The Depot
Description:  Union Pacific's New Prague motive power sits down from the depot and across from the town grain elevator on an unseasonably cloudy afternoon in early August.
Photo Date:  8/4/2018  Upload Date: 8/4/2018 6:25:40 PM
Location:  New Prague, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  204   Comments: 1
Division Street Crossing In Winter
Title:  Division Street Crossing In Winter
Description:  The old Milwaukee Road crossing at Division Street enjoys a tranquil Thanksgiving afternoon after a major snowstorm.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:09:00 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
Powered Up!
Title:  Powered Up!
Description:  The power box for the Division Street grade crossing is back on! I can feel a rail revival is in the offing here.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:07:52 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
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Views:  52   Comments: 0
No Weeds!
Title:  No Weeds!
Description:  The lush vegetation which choked the old I & M for years at this point is gone, and the rails remain. I sense a revival in the works.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:05:43 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Track
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Views:  162   Comments: 0
Old Milwaukee North of Highway 60
Title:  Old Milwaukee North of Highway 60
Description:  This stretch of the old Milwaukee in Faribault, located north of Highway 60, has been considerably cleared of the vegetation which has choked the line in previous years. Out of sight in the distance is the crossing with the surviving piece of Chicago Great Western in town, now used as an industrial spur.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:35:27 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  170   Comments: 0
Looking North Toward Highway 60
Title:  Looking North Toward Highway 60
Description:  A view up the old Milwaukee towards the new crossing signals at Highway 60. Note the remains of an old mill spur at right.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:34:55 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  161   Comments: 0
The Line Is Clear!
Title:  The Line Is Clear!
Description:  Looking south from Division Street. Weeds once were thick as all get out at this point, but now they have been cleared.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:22:06 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
South Of Highway 60
Title:  South Of Highway 60
Description:  A look down the old I & M from Highway 60. Note the old mill and the Milwaukee depot in the center background.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:58:39 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Track
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Depot And Yard Site
Title:  Depot And Yard Site
Description:  A view south from the north side of the Milwaukee depot. The Faribault yard site is at right. In 1995, a recycling transload operation was located here. Perhaps another such operation will locate here in the future.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:59:20 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Track
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Views:  94   Comments: 0
New Signals!
Title:  New Signals!
Description:  New grade crossing signals, which have yet to be activated, can be found at Highway 60 along the old Milwaukee Road in Faribault. Another sign of a revival in the making along this long-mothballed stretch of the I & M Division.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:24:07 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Depot On Thanksgiving
Title:  Milwaukee Depot On Thanksgiving
Description:  The State Farm office house in the old Milwaukee Road depot was closed on Thanksgiving Day 2019, giving the depot an air of a sleepy station on a quiet branch line.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:07:22 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station
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Views:  63   Comments: 0
Rail Relic
Title:  Rail Relic
Description:  This rail relic (telephone box? Signal related?) can be found north of the old Milwaukee depot.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:23:26 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
New Ties!
Title:  New Ties!
Description:  I actually gasped aloud and exclaimed "Ties!" when I saw this. The elimination of weeds, a powered up grade crossing, and new ties are a sure sign of an impending rail revival on this part of the old Milwaukee Road.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:10:35 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
The Old Farmers Seed and Nursery Spur
Title:  The Old Farmers Seed and Nursery Spur
Description:  The remains of the switch for the old Farmers Seed and Nursery spur, located in between Highway 60 and the Milwaukee depot, lingers to this day.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 11:05:47 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  162   Comments: 0
Closed For The Holiday
Title:  Closed For The Holiday
Description:  During my drive south to Faribault, I was floored to see how many restaurants along I-35 were still open, even though it was Thanksgiving Day! Fortunately, the owners of the Depot Bar & Grill, located in the old Faribault Rock Island depot, had the good sense to be closed so their employees could enjoy the holiday.
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:57:36 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station
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Views:  65   Comments: 0
"Report Emergency Or Problem"
Title:  "Report Emergency Or Problem"
Description:  The grade crossing ID on one of the new signals at Division Street is mum as to who put the signals in: Canadian Pacific, or Progressive Rail?
Photo Date:  11/28/2019  Upload Date: 11/30/2019 10:25:10 PM
Location:  Faribault, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Idling Beneath The Sunny Skies
Title:  Idling Beneath The Sunny Skies
Description:  CBFX 3805 idles in the company of Progressive Rail 40 (just visible at right) beneath mild, sunny skies on a late April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 7:54:24 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBFX 3805(GP38-3)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
Mid-Train Unit
Title:  Mid-Train Unit
Description:  The mid-train unit on a long, Precision Scheduled Railroading-style freight makes its appearance as the train continues to pass the Northfield depot on a gorgeous (for once!) April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 9:13:39 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6395(AC44CW)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
Racing By The Depot
Title:  Racing By The Depot
Description:  A northbound Union Pacific freight races by the Northfield depot beneath gorgeous April skies on a Thursday afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 9:12:52 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Action
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Views:  16   Comments: 0
Snappy Depot
Title:  Snappy Depot
Description:  The Northfield depot, moved to a new location off railroad property, is looking snappy as it continues to be restored to its original appearance. She sure is looking snappy!
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 7:52:47 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
MN&S Lives
Title:  MN&S Lives
Description:  The front end of PGR #40 sure looks classy. The name is now "Progressive Rail", but the look and feel of the units famed previous owner, the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern, remains strong.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 7:52:00 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
The Prize
Title:  The Prize
Description:  I came all the way to Northfield with the goal of seeing Progressive Rail #40, the famous ex-Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern locomotive that is plying home rails again between Northfield and Lakeville after a stint on PGR's Wisconsin Northern. Here the veteran unit is idling at the Northfield yard in company with CBFX 3805 (just visible at left) on a gorgeous April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 7:51:17 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 40(SD39)
Views:  406   Comments: 0
Still Here
Title:  Still Here
Description:  I was pleasantly surprised to find Northern Lines 1610 parked near the NLR office on a lovely Saturday afternoon. I thought the unit might have left the roster, but there she was.
Photo Date:  5/7/2022  Upload Date: 5/14/2022 9:31:01 PM
Location:  Saint Cloud, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NLR 1610(GP16)
Views:  96   Comments: 0
GP16!
Title:  GP16!
Description:  A close-up shot of Northern Lines 1610. This is the first GP16 I ever caught on all my railfan sojurns.
Photo Date:  5/7/2022  Upload Date: 5/14/2022 9:33:01 PM
Location:  Saint Cloud, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  53   Comments: 0
Thundering By Raymond
Title:  Thundering By Raymond
Description:  A westbound general freight on the Staples Sub thunders by Raymond Park in Saint Cloud on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/7/2022  Upload Date: 5/7/2022 8:52:39 PM
Location:  Saint Cloud, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
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Views:  158   Comments: 0
Oldie And A Gondola
Title:  Oldie And A Gondola
Description:  BNSF 1776, now pulling yard goat duties, sits at the west end of the Willmar yard tacked on to a gondola car early on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:42:53 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  113   Comments: 0
Patriotic Number
Title:  Patriotic Number
Description:  Now there's a patriotic number for a BNSF uniit. 1776 was taking a break from yard goat duties in Willmar's east end when I snapped this shot.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:45:02 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
1940 and 1997
Title:  1940 and 1997
Description:  Heritage paint is okay, but since I grew up with Cascade Green on the grand old Burlington Northernm, Cascade Green remains my favorite, man.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:45:35 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
Cascade Green And Orange
Title:  Cascade Green And Orange
Description:  A pair of veteran SD40-2's parked at the Willmar engine terminal model paint schemes old and new on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:45:51 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  172   Comments: 0
Hope Rewarded
Title:  Hope Rewarded
Description:  I hoped the yard goat hogger would keep coming down to where my friend Andy and I were this day, Lakeland Avenue, during a switchong move. My hope was rewarded.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 12:48:52 AM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
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Views:  111   Comments: 0
Love That GP30 Look
Title:  Love That GP30 Look
Description:  The hogger pauses at Lakeland Avenue during a switching move on a Sunday afternoon, giving me and my friend Andy ample time to admire 2589's classic GP30 look.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 12:49:34 AM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Still Coming
Title:  Still Coming
Description:  I hoped the hogger would keep hauling a cut of cars closer to where me and my friend Andy were this day, down at Lakeland Avenue on the Willmar yard's west side. He was still coming when I took this shot, so it looked like my hopes would be rewarded.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 12:47:01 AM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
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Views:  62   Comments: 0
Yard Goat On The Move
Title:  Yard Goat On The Move
Description:  BNSF 2589, a GP39U still sporting the classic GP30 look, hauls a cut of cars down through the west side of the Willmar yard on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 12:48:30 AM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
Marshall Sub Westbound
Title:  Marshall Sub Westbound
Description:  While we were photographing the Willmar bypass north of it's future southern junction with the Marshall Sub, my friend Andy spotted a westbound train on the Marshall, and we hurried back to catch it. Here a bird soars into the sky as the train thunders by the future southern junction of the bypass early on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 9:42:56 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7271(ES44DC) BNSF 7114(ES44C4)
Views:  87   Comments: 0
Vintage Coal Car
Title:  Vintage Coal Car
Description:  This vintage coal car, one of many on a westbound Big Stone coal train waiting to depart Willmar early on a Sunday afternnon, dates back to the days the Burlington Northern ran Big Stone coal jobs over the Milwaukee Road, my railfan companion Andy told me this day. He also told me they are on borrowed time, which is why I snapped this shot as we crossed the pedestrian bridge over the yard.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 7:26:20 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Cool BN Font
Title:  Cool BN Font
Description:  The cool Burlington Northern-style font on the letters that spell "Willmar" look snappy as ever on the east side of the station early on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 7:23:40 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Station,Signal
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Views:  99   Comments: 0
Backing In
Title:  Backing In
Description:  The crew of the motive power of an eastbound BNSF grain train is almost done with their run as they back the train's power into the engine facility at Willmar yard.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 9:48:55 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4037(C44-9W) BNSF 6799(ES44C4) NS 4361(AC44C6M)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
Gotcha At Last
Title:  Gotcha At Last
Description:  An eastobund grain train arriving at Willmar this day caught me and my friend Andy by surprise, but as the train's crew was only going so far as Willmar, when they brought the motive power in off the train, Andy and I got the train's power after all.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 9:49:39 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 4037(C44-9W) BNSF 6799(ES44C4) NS 4361(AC44C6M)
Views:  108   Comments: 0
Where The Marshall And Morris Meet
Title:  Where The Marshall And Morris Meet
Description:  The junction of the Marshall and Morris subdivisions basks beneath mild, mostly sunny skies on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 10:09:30 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Track
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Views:  62   Comments: 0
Clean Pumpkins
Title:  Clean Pumpkins
Description:  A pair of clean pumpkins soaks up a mild June sun on a lovely Sunday afternoon in the Willmar yard's engine terminal.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:46:39 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  108   Comments: 0
Soon To Be Former MRL
Title:  Soon To Be Former MRL
Description:  This Montana Rail Link boxcar is soon to be former MRL thanks to BNSF buying out MRL. Car was at Willmar yard this day.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 12:50:20 AM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  62   Comments: 0
Future North End
Title:  Future North End
Description:  This is the future north end of Willmar bypass, up by the BNSF Morris Subdivision (at left) near old Highway 12 and 45th Strreet Northwest.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:55:19 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
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Views:  67   Comments: 0
Thuroughbred
Title:  Thuroughbred
Description:  4361 was the third of three units on an eastbound grain train that arrived in Willmar and then had the power cut off and head into the engine terminal.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 9:51:02 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NS 4361(AC44C6M)
Views:  84   Comments: 0
Future South End
Title:  Future South End
Description:  This is the future south end of the Willmar bypass, down by the Marshall Subdivision (center background).
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/8/2022 11:54:59 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  53   Comments: 0
Waiting Westbound Big Stone
Title:  Waiting Westbound Big Stone
Description:  A westbound Big Stone coal train awaits its departure from Willmar early on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 7:24:31 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 8447(SD70ACe) BNSF 6921(ES44C4)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
A Clean 44CW
Title:  A Clean 44CW
Description:  A sparkling clean AC44CW pulling DPU duty on a westbound Big Stone coal train sits down in the east side of the Willmar yard on a lovely Sunday afternioon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 7:25:37 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 5622(AC44CW)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Big Stone Coal Power
Title:  Big Stone Coal Power
Description:  Another look at the lead units on a westbound Big Stone coal train my buddy Andy and I found waiting near the Willmar depot this day.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/29/2022 7:24:56 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 6921(ES44C4) BNSF 8447(SD70ACe)
Views:  142   Comments: 0
Waiting Westbound
Title:  Waiting Westbound
Description:  A westbound BNSF freight with an ES44C4 and a C44-9W for power awaits departure from the west end of Willmar yard on the second Sunday of June 2022.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 10:09:05 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 7022(ES44C4)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
Thunder On The Marshall
Title:  Thunder On The Marshall
Description:  A westbound freight on the Marshall Sub thunders west as my friend Andy gets his pics of the train early on a Sunday afternoon. In the foreground is the base for the south end of the Willmar bypass, which wiill connect to the Marshall Sub here
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 7/9/2022 9:43:57 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7114(ES44C4) BNSF 7271(ES44DC)
Views:  94   Comments: 0


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