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Viewing Album:  Around The Twin Cities: Vol. 2
 
By:Tony Held
Dates:9/3/2014 - 9/7/2020
Album Info:More train action and other rail scenes from around the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Enjoy!
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At Last!
Title:  At Last!
Description:  I have long wanted to catch the Monticello Local passing the "Rogers" station sign in the town of the same name. On this gorgeous early April afternoon, my wish came true.
Photo Date:  4/3/2019  Upload Date: 4/3/2019 9:04:43 PM
Location:  Rogers, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2751(GP39E) BNSF 2259(GP38-2)
Views:  128   Comments: 1
Goodbye Rogers
Title:  Goodbye Rogers
Description:  Switching completed for the week, the Monticello Local's crew takes the train south on a stunning, lovely, soul-feeding April afternoon. (Yes, spring fever has left me in a rapture this year. :-) )
Photo Date:  4/3/2019  Upload Date: 4/3/2019 9:05:35 PM
Location:  Rogers, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2259(GP38-2) BNSF 2751(GP39E)
Views:  188   Comments: 1
Stopped For Switching
Title:  Stopped For Switching
Description:  The Monticello Local's crew is in the middle of switching the Rogers spur early on a gorgeous April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/3/2019  Upload Date: 4/3/2019 9:03:12 PM
Location:  Rogers, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2751(GP39E)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
Waiting Beneath The Bridge
Title:  Waiting Beneath The Bridge
Description:  The crew of an eastbound freight waits on the main line beneath the County 15/Highway 12 overpass early on a gorgeous late April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/24/2019  Upload Date: 4/24/2019 3:17:48 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 252(SD75M) BNSF 251(SD75M)
Views:  240   Comments: 1
Light Power Move
Title:  Light Power Move
Description:  Here comes a westbound light power move running long hood first through downtown Shakopee early on a gorgeous late April afternoon. The hogger had plenty of grade crossings to blow the horn for as he tip-toed the units through Shako.
Photo Date:  4/26/2019  Upload Date: 4/27/2019 10:26:06 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 7661(ES44DC) UP 6060(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  128   Comments: 1
Yes! Yes!
Title:  Yes! Yes!
Description:  I have long wanted to catch some Union Pacific action in downtown Shakopee, but my luck was always out until this day, when I came upon a westbound light power move as I was entering downtown Shako. A brief but thrilling chase led me to the prize, leaving me as ecstatic as can be. :-)
Photo Date:  4/26/2019  Upload Date: 4/27/2019 10:26:40 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6060(AC44CWCTE) NS 7661(ES44DC)
Views:  123   Comments: 2
Valley Park: Take One
Title:  Valley Park: Take One
Description:  First shot I took of Valley Park's east end early on a gorgeous April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/26/2019  Upload Date: 4/27/2019 10:25:12 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 734(GP38-2) UP 5633(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  120   Comments: 1
Valley Park: Take Two
Title:  Valley Park: Take Two
Description:  A closer zoom shot of the scene at Valley Park's east end this day.
Photo Date:  4/26/2019  Upload Date: 4/27/2019 10:25:35 PM
Location:  Shakopee, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 734(GP38-2) UP 5633(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  159   Comments: 1
Another North Western Reminder
Title:  Another North Western Reminder
Description:  Second of three ex-North Western ribsided hoppers I spotted on the St. Paul Turn this day.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:05:22 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  18   Comments: 0
North Western Reminder
Title:  North Western Reminder
Description:  Today's St. Paul turn was mostly covered hoppers, including three ex-CNW ones. This was one of them. Such a sight is poigant to me, given how the North Western once served Hopkins on the old Minneapolis & St. Louis.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:04:03 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  31   Comments: 0
"Employee Owned" And Proud Of It
Title:  "Employee Owned" And Proud Of It
Description:  This ex-North Western ribside hopper dates back to the days the C&NW was employee owned and proud of it.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:04:47 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  13   Comments: 0
Faded Glory
Title:  Faded Glory
Description:  This ribside's "ball and bar" logo has not held up so good. Symbolic, perhaps, of how long gone the North Western now is.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:05:43 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  18   Comments: 0
The St. Paul Turn Is In
Title:  The St. Paul Turn Is In
Description:  The St. Paul Turn is back at Hopkins on a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:01:59 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2014(GP38-2)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
Another Day, Another Wait
Title:  Another Day, Another Wait
Description:  It was another day, another wait at Wayzata for the crew of this eastbound BNSF freight in on the Wayzata siding on a glorious May afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/4/2019  Upload Date: 5/6/2019 7:25:12 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7272(ES44DC) BNSF 4765(C44-9W)
Views:  51   Comments: 1
In Repose By The Spine
Title:  In Repose By The Spine
Description:  Progressive Rails' Eagandale motive power rests on the siding down near PGR's depot on Golden Spike Day 2019.
Photo Date:  5/10/2019  Upload Date: 5/10/2019 7:25:47 PM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CEFX 1558(SW1500) GMTX 302(MP15AC)
Views:  184   Comments: 2
Soutbound On The Spine
Title:  Soutbound On The Spine
Description:  A long southbound U.P. freught heads south on the Spine Line on the day cowcatchers touched and champagne flowed 150 years ago at Promontory Summit, Utah, on the day the Union met the Central.
Photo Date:  5/10/2019  Upload Date: 5/10/2019 7:25:25 PM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4707(SD70M) UP 4847(SD70M) UP 5960(AC44CWCTE) UP 6447(AC44CW)
Views:  106   Comments: 1
Southbound On Golden Spike Day
Title:  Southbound On Golden Spike Day
Description:  A long southbound Union Pacific freight rolls through Rosemount on the 150th anniversary of the day the U.P. met the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit, Utah.
Photo Date:  5/10/2019  Upload Date: 5/10/2019 7:24:47 PM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6447(AC44CW) UP 5960(AC44CWCTE) UP 4847(SD70M) UP 4707(SD70M)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
What Have We Here?
Title:  What Have We Here?
Description:  Long time since I've seen a locomotive parked on the old Dakota Rail interchange tracks at Wayzata.
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 5/14/2019 10:32:37 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 4787(C44-9W)
Views:  54   Comments: 1
Evening Catch
Title:  Evening Catch
Description:  Daylight Savings Time is a railfan's friend. I snapped this and another portrait of this veteran unit around 8:30 P.M. on a lovely May evening. I wonder what got 4787 set out at Wayzata?
Photo Date:  5/14/2019  Upload Date: 5/14/2019 10:33:59 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 4787(C44-9W)
Views:  85   Comments: 1
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/5/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:21:07 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives: 
Views:  21   Comments: 0
Gaggle Of Engines
Title:  Gaggle Of Engines
Description:  A gaggle of engines soaks up the sun at the Minnesota Commercial's roundhouse on a warm but lovely early June afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/5/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:21:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 311(C424) MNNR 43(B23-7) MNNR 58(B39-8E) MNNR 87(B39-8E)
Views:  553   Comments: 2
At The Sand Tower
Title:  At The Sand Tower
Description:  Yard slug T-3 and its mother engine rest by the sand tower on a fine summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/5/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:22:40 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
Alone At Midway
Title:  Alone At Midway
Description:  Obs car "Dagny Taggart" was all alone at the old Amtrak Midway station when I visited on a balmy summer afternoon in early June.
Photo Date:  6/5/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:20:36 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  40   Comments: 0
Gaggle Of Units Reduex
Title:  Gaggle Of Units Reduex
Description:  Two days after I first visited this week, the gaggle of units outside the roundhouse looked like this.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:36:56 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 1983(B23-7) MNNR 58(B39-8E) MNNR 87(B39-8E)
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Glimpse Of An Alco
Title:  Glimpse Of An Alco
Description:  An open door and a zoom shot enabled me to capture this glimpse of Alco 314.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:37:19 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 314(C424)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
A Day At The Roundhouse
Title:  A Day At The Roundhouse
Description:  MNNR 2002 idles on the turntable at the right while the sand tower looks over the roundhouse like a sentinal on a balmy June afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:42:21 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 2002(B23-7)
Views:  74   Comments: 1
Alcosaur!
Title:  Alcosaur!
Description:  Going home down Cleveland Avenue after I swing by the roundhouse, what should I see but Alco 316 out by the sand tower! And so I stopped to grab one more shot.
Photo Date:  6/7/2019  Upload Date: 6/7/2019 10:42:41 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 316(RS27)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Shiny Paint
Title:  Shiny Paint
Description:  Fourth of six units on an eastbound freight I caught this evening.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:31:49 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5483(C44-9W)
Views:  49   Comments: 2
Weathered Warrior
Title:  Weathered Warrior
Description:  She sure is a weathered warrior; fifth of six units on an eastbound freight I caught this evening.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:31:25 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8886(SD70MAC)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
Golden Oldies
Title:  Golden Oldies
Description:  These oldies but goodies were the second and third units of an eastbound freight paused on the Wayzata siding this evening.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 9:40:51 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2699(GP39-3) BNSF 9932(SD70MAC)
Views:  105   Comments: 1
Weathered Visitor
Title:  Weathered Visitor
Description:  Always nice to catch power from other roads; sixth and final of six units on this here eastbound freight I bagged in Wayzata this evening.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:32:08 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 47(AC44CW)
Views:  58   Comments: 1
Out Of Service
Title:  Out Of Service
Description:  The old house track at the Hopkins depot has a derail and a red sign at its east end at present.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:55:58 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  47   Comments: 0
Leaving Wayzata
Title:  Leaving Wayzata
Description:  The tail end of an eastbound freight nears the Lake Street grade crossing as the train clears the siding while resuming its way east.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 10:20:41 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  37   Comments: 0
Pulling Down The Siding
Title:  Pulling Down The Siding
Description:  An eastbound general freight pulls down the Wayzata siding on a lovely evening in early June.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 9:39:13 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4504(C44-9W)
Views:  68   Comments: 1
Down At The Depot On A Sunday Evening
Title:  Down At The Depot On A Sunday Evening
Description:  The ols Milwaukee Road depot and the power for the St. Paul Turn enjoy a mild, breezy Sunday evening,
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:53:13 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  TCWR 2010(GP38-2) TCWR 2013(GP38-2) TCWR 2011(GP38-2)
Views:  268   Comments: 1
Looking East Toward Excelsior Boulevard
Title:  Looking East Toward Excelsior Boulevard
Description:  Here we are looking east down the old Milwaukee Road towards the Excelsior Boulevard grade crossing, a scene destined to radically change in the near future thanks to the Southwest LRT line, which will see a bridge built to carry the line over Excelsior.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:55:04 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  43   Comments: 0
Splash of Sunshine
Title:  Splash of Sunshine
Description:  A splash of sunshine bathes the St. Paul Turn's power on a breezy, mild Sunday evening.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:57:15 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2011(GP38-2) TCWR 2013(GP38-2) TCWR 2010(GP38-2)
Views:  221   Comments: 1
Waiting For Tomorrow
Title:  Waiting For Tomorrow
Description:  This TC&W trio rests on a mild, breey Sunday evening, awaiting tomorrow's run to St. Paul with the St. Paul Turn.
Photo Date:  6/9/2019  Upload Date: 6/9/2019 11:53:44 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2013(GP38-2)
Views:  136   Comments: 1
Moving Ahead
Title:  Moving Ahead
Description:  THe Midway yard goart's hogger pulls a string of baretables forward after sitting beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge late on a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/30/2019 12:27:04 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1896(SD40-2) BNSF 1824(SD39-2)
Views:  149   Comments: 1
Thottling Up
Title:  Thottling Up
Description:  The Midway Yard powers engineer throttles up as a forward movement begins.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/30/2019 12:27:58 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1896(SD40-2)
Views:  104   Comments: 1
Switching Baretables
Title:  Switching Baretables
Description:  The Midway Yard crew switches baretables larte on a mostly cloudy Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/30/2019 12:25:26 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 1824(SD39-2) BNSF 1896(SD40-2)
Views:  113   Comments: 3
Alco!
Title:  Alco!
Description:  I never saw this baby before.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:03:47 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 318(RS27)
Views:  301   Comments: 1
String Of Diesels
Title:  String Of Diesels
Description:  Alco 318 sits at the end of a string of MNNR diesels on a pleasant Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:09:42 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 318(RS27)
Views:  139   Comments: 1
GE And An Alco
Title:  GE And An Alco
Description:  The MNNR crew engages in swtiching with GE 75, while Alco 318 sits at the end of a string of diesels. 318 was idling, because I saw a big gout of black smoke come out of her stack shortly before I got this shot.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:10:18 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7) MNNR 318(RS27)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
Moving Forward
Title:  Moving Forward
Description:  75's engineer takes a tank car under the Pierce Butler Route bridge during a switching move.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:11:12 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MNNR 75(B36-7)
Views:  157   Comments: 1
Mystery Engines
Title:  Mystery Engines
Description:  I know these babies are Minnesota Commercial units, but the confounded hopper cars in the foreground kept me from seeing their numbers. Ideas, anyone?
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:29:52 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  21   Comments: 0
No More Trains To Board
Title:  No More Trains To Board
Description:  Old Amtrak Midway sits as quiet and forlorn as many a big city station was when passenger trains were in danger of extinction in the United States. Now St. Paul Union Depot welcomes the trains that once visited here.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:12:16 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  63   Comments: 0
Mystery Cars?
Title:  Mystery Cars?
Description:  Who owns these passenger cars stashed at this old inudstrial site up from the old Amtrak Midway depot?
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 9:14:04 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  54   Comments: 0
All Oldies!
Title:  All Oldies!
Description:  Returning home, I came upon a stopped eastbound BNSF freight which had quite the Golden Oldie lashup on the head end, yes sir.
Photo Date:  6/15/2019  Upload Date: 6/15/2019 7:36:13 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2557(GP39-3) BNSF 2764(GP39E) BNSF 1918(SD40-2)
Views:  321   Comments: 1
All That Remains
Title:  All That Remains
Description:  Two tracks are all that is left of the once sprawling Milwaukee Road Bass Lake Yard. Sadly, these two tracks, and the old main line at left, will be removed and replaced by light rail trackage when Southwest LRT is built.
Photo Date:  6/22/2019  Upload Date: 6/23/2019 11:28:35 PM
Location:  Saint Louis Park, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  66   Comments: 0

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