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| Title: |
GN 122 and the 3rd street NP switch tender |
| Description: |
Perhaps the 3rd street NP switch tender is lining switches for this Great Northern transfer that is coming down the hill from Westminister Tower--- the real question here is where are they going and with whom will they be interchanging cars today?! This is just north of the NP commissary and coach yard on the north end of the "St Paul wye". Maybe they are going thru the St Paul Union Depot (which had 23 tracks &was shared by 8 different railroads) and over the Mississippi River drawbridge at Robert Street and then to the Chicago Great Western at State street or maybe to "the Omaha" at the NSP high bridge power plant! I would like to believe that they will be going east to Division Street on the CB&Q and then to Hoffman Avenue on the Milwaukee Road at St Paul Yard! There is perhaps no way to know--- the real point here is that in those days there were many different railroads and lots of different jobs and places to work unlike today! |
| Photo Date: |
4/14/1967 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 6:45:49 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GN 122(NW2) |
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1954 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
GN 309A |
| Description: |
Going west from St Paul and Westminister tower the Great Northern had a four track main line on which both the Chicago Great Western and the Chicago North Western also ran between St Paul and Minneapolis!!! At St Anthony Tower the freight mains entered the east end of Union Yard crossing over the Passenger mains on four crossing diamonds as the Passenger mains headed west thru the University of Minnesota and then crossed the Mississippi River on the Stone Arch Bridge which i believe had a curve in it on the west end going into the Passenger Station!!! West of the GN Union Yard and the Minnesota Transfer which connected with the Milwaukee Road was Minneapolis Jct which was south of the Soo Line at Shoreham and the NP at Northtown--- this is all to say that there was a lot of railroading in not really a lot of space!!! At Mpls Jct was engine GN 309A--- but as you can see from the GE U Boat on the right and the "Big Sky Blue" engine on the left--- change was coming like it or not it!!! |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1968 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 6:32:43 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GN 309A(F7A) |
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1933 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
GN 559 |
| Description: |
at Minneapolis Jct roundhouse--- a couple of the bigboys stopped to talk with us while they were taking a break between assignments |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1968 Upload Date: 1/11/2009 12:23:41 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GN 559(SD7) |
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1225 Comments: 5 |
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| Title: |
GN 311A |
| Description: |
at minneapolis Jct--- the Burlington Northern merge has arrived |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1970 Upload Date: 1/10/2009 12:20:14 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GN 311A(F7A) |
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1454 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
GN BN 1818 |
| Description: |
Someone said that it was cold that day--- and i guess that just "maybe" that was true!!! i never really noticed because in those days i was a very warm blooded young buck and also part polar bear!!! You can see the Interstate highway I35 bridges being built here at Rices Point in Duluth, Minnesota on the probably frozen shore of Lake Superior!!! i doubt that there was much taconite, coal or grain being shipped on the Great Lakes at that time of year!!! You can see a NP Alco S2/4 again with an old steam engine bell!!! Rices point was the Northern Pacific yard in Duluth and 28th street was the Great Northern yard in Superior, Wisconsin |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/1971 Upload Date: 9/25/2007 6:40:23 PM |
| Location: |
Duluth, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 1818(GP9) |
| Views: |
898 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
After the merger--- a cold day |
| Description: |
GN BN 1818 and a NP Alco S2/4... a little work in the photo editor and yep i'm now pretty sure that it was cold that day!!! |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/1971 Upload Date: 9/27/2007 1:55:39 AM |
| Location: |
Duluth, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Winter |
| Locomotives: |
BN 1818(GP9) |
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668 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LST&T 101 |
| Description: |
Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer engines wore a GN paint scheme |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/1971 Upload Date: 6/15/2008 4:30:13 PM |
| Location: |
Superior, WI |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter |
| Locomotives: |
LSTT 101(NW2) |
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351 Comments: 0 |
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