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Title: |
GN 559 |
Description: |
at 28th street--- date unknown |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1965 Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:35:49 AM |
Location: |
Superior, WI |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
GN 559(SD7) GN 567(SD7) |
Views: |
1340 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GN 567 |
Description: |
at 28th street--- date unknown |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1965 Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:37:03 AM |
Location: |
Superior, WI |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
GN 567(SD7) GN 559(SD7) |
Views: |
1213 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
NP 704 |
Description: |
at Duluth--- date unknown |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1965 Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:38:50 AM |
Location: |
Duluth, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
NP 704(S2) |
Views: |
1467 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NP 707 |
Description: |
at Duluth--- date unknown |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1965 Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:44:36 AM |
Location: |
Duluth, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
NP 707(S2) |
Views: |
1232 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"the old days" |
Description: |
up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown |
Photo Date: |
3/15/1965 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:15:47 PM |
Location: |
Winnipeg, MB |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
CN 4304(GP9) CN 4310(GP9) |
Views: |
1026 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"the old days" |
Description: |
up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown |
Photo Date: |
3/15/1965 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:18:53 PM |
Location: |
Winnipeg, MB |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
CN 4304(GP9) |
Views: |
706 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"the old days" |
Description: |
up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown |
Photo Date: |
3/15/1965 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:20:08 PM |
Location: |
Winnipeg, MB |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
CN 4310(GP9) CN 4304(GP9) |
Views: |
573 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"the old days" |
Description: |
up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown |
Photo Date: |
3/15/1965 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:21:40 PM |
Location: |
Winnipeg, MB |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
549 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
wooden caboose & kerosene markers |
Description: |
before the mergers started, before Amtrak and before there were so many computers, in so many places, doing so many things that some people began to wonder if it was such a good thing after all! Now we have NAFTA, open borders and anything can be anywhere at anytime! Enough said, you ever understand or you don't! I'm just glad and happy that I was able to be there and to see these things! |
Photo Date: |
3/15/1965 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:29:35 PM |
Location: |
Winnipeg, MB |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
743 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
East 1 |
Description: |
the signals at Newport indicate Diverging Clear meaning a Rock Island transfer is coming home! And if you know where to look, you can see that the Rock Island operator has also lined signals for them to cross the Great River and proceed to Inver Grove! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:08:04 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Track |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
694 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
East 2 |
Description: |
taking the signal at Newport--- "Extra RI 1206 East" returns home! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:50:44 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 1206(GP7) CRIP 328(GP35) |
Views: |
1273 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
West 2 |
Description: |
Nice power--- but somewhere they will need to turn the engine consist before they can come home again! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:19:28 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 44(F2A) CRIP 22(F7B) |
Views: |
1763 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
West 1 |
Description: |
"Extra RI 44 West" enters the joint Milwaukee/ Burlington double track which was left hand running, back in train order days before the computerized ctc that it now is! How do I know, you ask?! Because I used to dispatch at Newport catching summer vacations on the BN dispatchers extra board at Northtown and also because I worked in three of the five interlocking towers that were on the line between St Paul and Hastings/ Prescott! Back in "train order days" it was fun to work there! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:34:40 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 44(F2A) CRIP 22(F7B) |
Views: |
1626 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
RI 1206 &328 |
Description: |
Rock Island Transfer returning home leaving the joint double track at Newport, once known as Rock Island Jct! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/18/2010 12:52:46 AM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 328(GP35) CRIP 1206(GP7) |
Views: |
1218 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
on the turntable |
Description: |
facing the same direction, but not wearing the same colors |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:40:59 AM |
Location: |
Inver Grove, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 1214(GP7) CRIP 1297(GP7) |
Views: |
1402 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
at rest |
Description: |
waiting for a new assignment |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:37:36 AM |
Location: |
Inver Grove, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 1214(GP7) |
Views: |
845 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
taking a rest |
Description: |
engine RI 1297 sits on the turntable |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:35:26 AM |
Location: |
Inver Grove, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CRIP 1297(GP7) |
Views: |
863 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
East 3 |
Description: |
nice caboose and typical of the transfer cabooses that I often saw around St Paul. When they came back from the GN or the NP, they usually came home with 2 cabooses on the rear! But that is a whole other story! |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:25:38 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Winter,Signal |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
952 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
West 3 |
Description: |
yes, heading west is correct. The joint double track was left hand running between St Croix Tower and Division Street. |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1967 Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:43:24 PM |
Location: |
Newport, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
very strange |
Description: |
Why would a CGW engine be at Shoreham on the Soo Line?! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 12:45:27 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 416(RS27) SOO 2410(GP9) CGW 54(RS2) |
Views: |
2107 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
sand & fuel |
Description: |
Everyday things as they were at that time, on the engine service tracks at Shoreham! But it would not always be Geeps and F7s--- one day they would be replaced by newer, bigger and more powerful engines! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 1:22:46 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 2408(GP9) SOO 214B(F7A) SOO 740(SD40) |
Views: |
1052 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
SOO 2203A &556 |
Description: |
white class lamps are displayed for "an extra train"! That is one which either just arrived or one that is soon to depart. Maybe both are true! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:48:04 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9) |
Views: |
921 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
SOO 2203B &554 |
Description: |
sometimes on some railroads--- a "B unit" can be an F7A! This was true on the Soo Line where the 2203A &2203B, were both F7A's! You don't believe it, you say?! Then check my pictures, as they are both here! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:41:29 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 2203B(F7A) SOO 554(GP9) |
Views: |
909 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
SOO 2408 |
Description: |
2 of a kind, a pair--- either way it matters NOT which way you phrase it--- they are just plain nice! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 1:19:34 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 2408(GP9) |
Views: |
532 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
SOO 556 &2203A |
Description: |
GP9's and F7A's mixed--- I loved it! Note the black air tanks on the top of the engine so as to make more room under the frame for a bigger fuel tank! |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1967 Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:50:40 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 556(GP9) SOO 2203a(F7A) |
Views: |
1020 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
1 purple and 5 red |
Description: |
6 units at State Street yard stand ready and waiting to be of service. Maybe the paint scheme was not fancy but perhaps it had an appeal because it was simple. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 5:27:16 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CGW F7(F7A) |
Views: |
1539 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Ready to run |
Description: |
the head brakeman looks back inspecting his train waiting for a highball and permission to leave the yard. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:19:45 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
1051 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
not double track |
Description: |
the other track is the Rock Island main south of the Twin Cities |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:59:25 AM |
Location: |
Rosemount, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
918 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CGW 109C |
Description: |
somewhere south of State Street yard and South St Paul |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:34:08 AM |
Location: |
Hampton, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
817 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CGW 116A |
Description: |
time was running out for the "Great Western". The red and purple engines were simple, but nice! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:39:48 AM |
Location: |
Hampton, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 116A(FP7A) CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
1512 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CGW 54 |
Description: |
place and date unknown |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 5:43:40 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Winter |
Locomotives: |
CGW 54(RS2) |
Views: |
1189 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
in the yard |
Description: |
resting between assignments, waiting for the next cut |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:31:01 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CGW 35(DS44-1000) |
Views: |
836 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CGW bay window caboose |
Description: |
Besides the caboose, some other things to notice are the signal and communication lines of which there seems to be many! Also the snow flanger sign which was a black star with a white dot on the front side, easy to see in the winter when plowing snow! Perhaps a story in and of itself, if you could only... |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 4:08:19 AM |
Location: |
Rosemount, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
424 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Only if |
Description: |
a lot of things were different then and 16 years olds were lucky to be out taking pictures let alone have a really good camera with which to do so! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:44:59 AM |
Location: |
Rosemount, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
1026 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Leaving on a clear block |
Description: |
CGW 109C & 116A with 2 F7Bs in the middle head out of the siding and into a "clear block"! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:46:06 AM |
Location: |
Hampton, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) CGW 116A(FP7A) |
Views: |
1181 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
as the engine crew saw it... |
Description: |
the switch shows to be lined reverse and the block signal indicates proceed! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:48:40 AM |
Location: |
Hampton, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) CGW 116A(FP7A) |
Views: |
1077 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Recognize this place |
Description: |
Many changes were arriving and more were soon to come! I have placed this picture to be around St Anthony tower on the GN four track main. Maybe someone else can do better as to the place and time?! The trailing CGW F7A is 113A |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:10:35 PM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 113A(F3A) |
Views: |
981 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Crossing the Rock Island |
Description: |
I think that this picture is south of Inver Grove towards Rosemount at the CGW/ RI interlocking. You can see the double headed signal protecting the interlocking as the RI main headed south to Iowa and Kansas City. The CGW turned more southeast toward Chicago. When the CNW took over the RI, they now longer used the CGW route between the Twin Cities and Chicago. It was not long before they began ripping it up and tearing it out! Thank God that they did NOT get control of the Milwaukee double track with the Amtrak route between Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. Who knows the things that then might have happened! One thing is perhaps true... the RI main south of the Twin Cities thru Albert Lea would probably been torn up also! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:51:22 PM |
Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
765 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
three CGW F7s with an F3 leading |
Description: |
four different railroads, and only one of them exists today! If only that there was to me then a really good camera! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 3:35:26 AM |
Location: |
Rosemount, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
799 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
coming up the hill |
Description: |
a closer look |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 5:50:10 AM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
1600 Comments: 10 |
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Title: |
for now |
Description: |
deciding which one to keep! |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 7:44:31 PM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
1019 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
on the main |
Description: |
date unknown--- at Randolph |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 5:30:52 AM |
Location: |
Randolph, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
Views: |
960 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
the world was surely different then |
Description: |
it was a different time somewhere between then and now. I think that this is an interesting picture that could almost be a painting, but it is not! |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1968 Upload Date: 9/23/2010 2:56:58 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
NP 170(SW1200) |
Views: |
1831 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
31 cents a gallon |
Description: |
It was probably not June 10th, 1968 because that was my operators date on the Milwaukee Road and I was in La Crosse, Wisconsin taking the "rules class" with the Chief Dispatcher back in those days when there was such a person! It was a time when GP9s ran together with F7As and/ or Bs--- and when GP30s & GP35s were new! AND before I forget it was also when gas was 31cents a gallon! That must have been nice you say?! Well considering that people then maybe made 2 or 3 dollars an hour and 5 cents worth of Jelly Beans would last all day--- I suppose all things are relative! But was it better than?! Yes and No is perhaps the correct answer! |
Photo Date: |
6/10/1968 Upload Date: 7/30/2010 4:03:59 AM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9) SOO 717(GP30) |
Views: |
1095 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
classic GN |
Description: |
forces bigger than all of us were and had been working quitely in the background. The "Big Sky Blue" paint scheme was revealed to us in 1967. And so as I graduated from high school, things were beginning to change here also! The old colors that so many knew for so many years were on the way out and the GN goat was now becoming streamlined! In three more years, things would change again with the coming of "the big merger"--- the Burlington Northern! It makes me wonder what Mister Hill would have thought! Would he have been pleased?! |
Photo Date: |
6/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/4/2010 7:01:00 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
GN 627(GP7) GN 905(GP9RM) |
Views: |
8525 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
another place and time |
Description: |
a pair of NP RS3s |
Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 6/1/2011 4:38:28 AM |
Location: |
Staples, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
NP 857(RS3) NP 862(RS3) |
Views: |
1537 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
out on the main track |
Description: |
where ever it was that they were going to or coming from, I dont now remember as it was a very long time ago! But you can see the Soo Line bridge and the Grove Yard engine working at 35th Avenue! |
Photo Date: |
8/15/1968 Upload Date: 9/15/2010 2:04:42 PM |
Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Action |
Locomotives: |
NP 6020A(F7A) |
Views: |
2039 Comments: 10 |
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Title: |
they did their work |
Description: |
and I did mine! The fact that I was there taking pictures did not seem to matter as long as I stayed out of the way! Today, they would stop and run you off! |
Photo Date: |
10/22/1968 Upload Date: 7/22/2010 4:25:18 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
MTFR 301(SW1500) MTFR 300(SW1500) |
Views: |
694 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Minnesota Transfer |
Description: |
"thru the Heart of the Midway"... and the crew did NOT seem to care that I was there taking that picture! They went about their business and I went about mine! I stayed out of the way and they left me alone! Just imagine even thinking about doing such a thing today! Hello Homeland Security! |
Photo Date: |
10/22/1968 Upload Date: 7/22/2010 3:58:36 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
MTFR 300(SW1500) MTFR 301(SW1500) |
Views: |
798 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
"in the heart of the Midway" |
Description: |
Minnesota Transfer alco engine 102 works on the lead. Its a simple paint scheme, but nice! |
Photo Date: |
10/22/1968 Upload Date: 7/29/2010 12:40:03 AM |
Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
Author: |
Steven Rush |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
MTFR 102(S4) |
Views: |
649 Comments: 1 |
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