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4/23/2024
 
 
 
 
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that's all folks!
Title:  that's all folks!
Description:  no need for a fire watch today!
Photo Date:  12/16/2013  Upload Date: 1/3/2014 8:20:45 PM
Location:  Bangor, WI
Author:  Steve J Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Grinding the curve
Title:  Grinding the curve
Description:  heading west into the curve at Bangor West just east of Milw mp 266
Photo Date:  12/16/2013  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 3:05:41 PM
Location:  Bangor, WI
Author:  Steve J Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  346   Comments: 3
"fire under the wheels"
Title:  "fire under the wheels"
Description:  It is difficult to say, but perhaps I like this one the best!
Photo Date:  12/16/2013  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 3:20:54 PM
Location:  Bangor, WI
Author:  Steve J Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  301   Comments: 0
"fire under the wheels"
Title:  "fire under the wheels"
Description:  Loram Rail Grinder heading west
Photo Date:  12/16/2013  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 3:16:12 PM
Location:  Bangor, WI
Author:  Steve J Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  321   Comments: 0
"fire under the wheels"
Title:  "fire under the wheels"
Description:  Loram Rail Grinder at Bangor West
Photo Date:  12/16/2013  Upload Date: 12/31/2013 3:13:46 PM
Location:  Bangor, WI
Author:  Steve J Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Night,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  310   Comments: 0
alongside her Canadian brothers
Title:  alongside her Canadian brothers
Description:  Soo Line passenger engine 553 waits at Winnipeg for the return trip to Minneapolis/ St Paul! The Soo Line was really the Canadian Pacific in the USA, just as the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific jointly owned the Burlington which gave them a route to Chicago! On the Great Northern the overnight train between St Paul/ Minneapolis and Winnipeg was called "the Winnipeg Limited" and on the Soo Line it was called "the Winnipeger". On the "GN" the distance was 457 miles.
Photo Date:  3/15/1967  Upload Date: 6/15/2011 4:57:26 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 553(GP9)
Views:  853   Comments: 0
heading back to the mines
Title:  heading back to the mines
Description:  leaving Homer West and entering a clear block
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:51:44 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6289(ES44AC) BNSF 6330(ES44AC)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
two facing west
Title:  two facing west
Description:  We had chased them up the river valley and earlier they had went passed our house in Rockland or if you wish Bangor East!
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:48:25 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6289(ES44AC) BNSF 6330(ES44AC)
Views:  588   Comments: 0
Clear Block
Title:  Clear Block
Description:  waiting for the coal empties
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:45:06 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  384   Comments: 0
an old friend
Title:  an old friend
Description:  Heading eastward, home to Milwaukee
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:42:22 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 180(P42DC) AMTK 57(P42DC) AMTK 505(B32-8WH)
Views:  446   Comments: 1
all three facing east
Title:  all three facing east
Description:  in the engine consist are the usual two plus one that we do NOT see very often!
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:39:52 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 180(P42DC) AMTK 57(P42DC) AMTK 505(B32-8WH)
Views:  508   Comments: 2
Heading east
Title:  Heading east
Description:  at Homer West, Amtk 8 is out of Winona
Photo Date:  5/28/2011  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 9:37:47 PM
Location:  Homer, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 180(P42DC) AMTK 57(P42DC) AMTK 505(B32-8WH)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
another place and time
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:  1505   Comments: 0
CO 6213
Title:  CO 6213
Description:  Would you believe Newport News, Virginia 1973?! It could have been!
Photo Date:  6/7/1965  Upload Date: 6/1/2011 2:28:01 AM
Location:  New Castle Junction, PA
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CO 6213(GP9) CO 7520(SD40)
Views:  783   Comments: 1
Leaving Daytons Bluff
Title:  Leaving Daytons Bluff
Description:  along the river bluff and under the tower at Hoffman Avenue, a CB&Q transfer heads up "the backway" towards Division Street and then to the GN at Union Yard or the NP at Northtown
Photo Date:  7/28/1969  Upload Date: 5/28/2011 4:35:08 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  EL 801(SD45) EL 2506(U25B)
Views:  887   Comments: 0
Life in Amish Country
Title:  Life in Amish Country
Description:  Amtk 7 is on the siding proceeding west on the old westbound track at Bangor East. The block is now dark and the Amish are heading north on County Road "J". Soon the farmers will be planting corn and soybeans, leaving me with "nothing to do" but sit around and watch it grow! Life here in the river valley is nice and as a retired BN dispatcher, I can say that this is the best job that I have ever had!
Photo Date:  4/9/2011  Upload Date: 4/18/2011 3:42:15 AM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  407   Comments: 0
Amtk 198 west
Title:  Amtk 198 west
Description:  Amtk 7 take siding at Bangor East!
Photo Date:  4/9/2011  Upload Date: 4/18/2011 3:28:28 AM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 198(P42DC) AMTK 823(P40DC)
Views:  599   Comments: 0
Amtk 8
Title:  Amtk 8
Description:  FRA inspection car 220
Photo Date:  4/7/2011  Upload Date: 4/18/2011 2:44:56 AM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  1058   Comments: 2
a nice surprise
Title:  a nice surprise
Description:  private cars Puget Sound and Sierra Hotel on the rear of Amtk 8
Photo Date:  4/4/2011  Upload Date: 4/15/2011 2:17:40 AM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  446   Comments: 0
inspecting "the High Iron"
Title:  inspecting "the High Iron"
Description:  As if we had our own train, the "chief stock holder" and one of his VPs inspect the line for high water after the recent heavy rains that followed a long winter and the melting of heavy snow. The company photographer took time from her busy schedule to record our passing, thanks Beth!
Photo Date:  4/11/2011  Upload Date: 4/14/2011 4:20:28 PM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  462   Comments: 0
Twin Cities Turn
Title:  Twin Cities Turn
Description:  Coming home from Milwaukee
Photo Date:  4/11/2011  Upload Date: 4/14/2011 3:51:55 PM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 79(P42DC)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
Twin Cities Turn
Title:  Twin Cities Turn
Description:  a short "Empire Builder" heads east across Wisconsin. Because of last winter's heavy snow and the high water which caused the spring floods in North Dakota, the "Empire Builder" stopped running west of Minneapolis/ St Paul.
Photo Date:  4/11/2011  Upload Date: 4/14/2011 3:46:05 PM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 198(P42DC) AMTK 823(P40DC)
Views:  600   Comments: 1
at the house
Title:  at the house
Description:  "those were the days"
Photo Date:  6/19/1969  Upload Date: 2/3/2011 6:23:01 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  NP 914(RS11) NP 860(RS3) NP 916(RS11)
Views:  2010   Comments: 2
at the house
Title:  at the house
Description:  St Paul/ Duluth "Skally" power resting between assignments
Photo Date:  6/19/1969  Upload Date: 2/3/2011 6:15:21 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  NP 860(RS3) NP 916(RS11)
Views:  1804   Comments: 2
at the house
Title:  at the house
Description:  NP 916, 860 and 914 at Mississippi Street
Photo Date:  6/19/1969  Upload Date: 2/3/2011 5:59:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  NP 916(RS11) NP 860(RS3) NP 914(RS11)
Views:  2078   Comments: 2
a little help from my friends
Title:  a little help from my friends
Description:  it is a good thing when you have friends who also live along the line, who see the same trains that you do! It is with a special thanks to them that we post this picture! If a friend of mine had not called, we would not have been out there to get this picture!
Photo Date:  10/31/2010  Upload Date: 11/11/2010 10:42:47 PM
Location:  Rockland, WI
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  349   Comments: 0
not everyday things
Title:  not everyday things
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2010  Upload Date: 11/4/2010 7:49:10 PM
Location:  Minneiska, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  348   Comments: 1
not everyday things
Title:  not everyday things
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/20/2010  Upload Date: 11/4/2010 7:47:08 PM
Location:  Minneiska, MN
Author:  Beth Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  357   Comments: 1
another view
Title:  another view
Description:  it is always nice to be able to have a picture of something of which there was only one!
Photo Date:  10/25/1969  Upload Date: 9/25/2010 1:49:18 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2380(RS3)
Views:  881   Comments: 1
a rare find
Title:  a rare find
Description:  I think that I read somewhere that the Soo Line had only one of these!
Photo Date:  10/25/1969  Upload Date: 9/25/2010 1:32:09 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 2380(RS3)
Views:  1242   Comments: 1
waiting for work
Title:  waiting for work
Description:  resting between assignments, we found this collection of engines at the water tower at Stinson Yard
Photo Date:  10/25/1969  Upload Date: 9/25/2010 1:28:14 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2380(RS3) SOO 2123(SW1200) SOO 313(S12)
Views:  2049   Comments: 2
NP 117
Title:  NP 117
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/17/2007 4:10:20 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 117(SW9)
Views:  1882   Comments: 5
back when there still were some
Title:  back when there still were some
Description:  the NP tower at Mississippi Street sat between the yard to the north and the roundhouse and diesel shop to the south. This was all a couple of miles from the St Paul Union Depot. Today it is all gone except for a pair of crossovers. If you had not seen that which it was, you would never know from looking at it today!
Photo Date:  12/23/1968  Upload Date: 9/23/2010 2:19:10 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  875   Comments: 2
the world was surely different then
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:  1786   Comments: 3
waiting for a train
Title:  waiting for a train
Description:  another view
Photo Date:  12/23/1968  Upload Date: 9/23/2010 2:25:44 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  NP 262(GP9) NP 6010B(F7B) NP 6002B(F3B) NP 859(RS3)
Views:  2139   Comments: 1
waiting for a train
Title:  waiting for a train
Description:  four engines all different
Photo Date:  12/23/1968  Upload Date: 9/23/2010 2:24:06 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  NP 262(GP9) NP 6010B(F7B) NP 6002B(F3B) NP 859(RS3)
Views:  2279   Comments: 1
out on the main track
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:  2010   Comments: 10
GN transfer caboose
Title:  GN transfer caboose
Description:  in downtown St Paul at the GN freight house, you can see the 1st Bank sign in the background that has probably been there since the early 1930's! The caboose is long gone as also so is the freight house. The investment bankers were there "in the time of the beginning" and they are still there! Everything else is now gone and only a memory to those who were there to see these things!
Photo Date:  6/9/1969  Upload Date: 9/15/2010 1:43:52 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  958   Comments: 0
Reflections of Yesterday
Title:  Reflections of Yesterday
Description:  on the caboose track at Northtown
Photo Date:  10/14/1969  Upload Date: 9/15/2010 1:54:57 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  811   Comments: 0
summer of 69
Title:  summer of 69
Description:  the grain elevator is still there, but these cabooses that were on the end of the trains that brought the grain from NorthWestern Minnesota and North Dakota are long gone!
Photo Date:  7/14/1969  Upload Date: 9/15/2010 1:51:54 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1139   Comments: 3
and nobody cared that I was there
Title:  and nobody cared that I was there
Description:  the workers did the work and everybody left everybody--- including me alone! People had respect for others and it was clear to everyone, who the officials were and where they were! It was not like the "weed weasels and snakes in the grass" that there are today, who sit off in the background listening to the radio, perhaps with their feet on the desk! The guy on the right by the water tender with the long coat and hat looks like someone that I could respect for that which he was! Someone who really cared about how things were going and could actually do something to help the men when they needed help!
Photo Date:  3/19/1969  Upload Date: 8/20/2010 3:39:06 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Wreck,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  799   Comments: 0
getting back on the rail
Title:  getting back on the rail
Description:  a steam powered wrecking hook and an old steam engine tender for a water car, this was railroading!
Photo Date:  3/19/1969  Upload Date: 8/20/2010 3:02:09 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Wreck,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  1125   Comments: 1
derailment
Title:  derailment
Description:  NP steam hook 32 works at 3rd Street--- to me, there was a certain "magic" to things "in those days"!
Photo Date:  3/19/1969  Upload Date: 8/19/2010 7:58:59 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Wreck,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NP 153(SW1200)
Views:  815   Comments: 0
derailment
Title:  derailment
Description:  CB&Q wrecker crew works alongside the limestone river bluff just clear of "the joint track Passenger mains" between Hoffman Avenue and Division Street.
Photo Date:  6/18/1969  Upload Date: 8/19/2010 7:15:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Wreck,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  741   Comments: 0
derailment
Title:  derailment
Description:  Northern Pacific steam powered wrecking hook works at 3rd Street, just north of the St Paul wye and the Union Depot!
Photo Date:  3/19/1969  Upload Date: 8/19/2010 7:06:49 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NP 153(SW1200)
Views:  932   Comments: 1
after the merger
Title:  after the merger
Description:  NP colors--- BN number
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:53:56 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BN 909(S2)
Views:  837   Comments: 0
the EPA would have a fit
Title:  the EPA would have a fit
Description:  love those Alco's!
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:46:37 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
the EPA would have a fit
Title:  the EPA would have a fit
Description:  Dont you just love those Alcos, they could make some smoke!
Photo Date:  1/10/1971  Upload Date: 8/15/2010 5:50:37 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BN 915(S4)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
DWP 3611
Title:  DWP 3611
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 1/10/2008 8:35:57 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DWP 3611(RS11)
Views:  1617   Comments: 2
CN 1903
Title:  CN 1903
Description:  Switching in CN Symington Yard.
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 12/29/2008 11:04:07 AM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CN 1903(GMD1)
Views:  1327   Comments: 0


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