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| Title: |
Sunrise3 |
| Description: |
a closer view of the St Paul skyline and the frozen Mississippi River! The red signals on the right hand side that are almost hidden by the sandstone river bluff are the east signal bridge at Division Street. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1969 Upload Date: 7/1/2010 12:04:29 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Signal,Track |
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| Title: |
Sunrise2 |
| Description: |
Looking west from my desk in the tower at Hoffman Avenue, this was my view of the St Paul skyline! |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1969 Upload Date: 6/30/2010 11:56:33 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Signal,Track |
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359 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sunrise1 |
| Description: |
as the sun rises and another 3rd trick begins to end for the leverman/ telegraph operator at Hoffman Avenue, this is the view that I had looking east towards Daytons Bluff and St Paul Yard. The Milwaukee freight mains were right hand running and the two center tracks were the passenger mains and they were left hand running! It was a busy and interesting place to work! The cement company in the middle of the picture and the grain terminal that loaded river barges, were served by the St Paul Bridge and Terminal or in this case it was known to most people as the CGW! The 3 right hand tracks towards the river were Milwaukee and the 3 left hand tracks towards the bluff belonged to the Burlington. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1969 Upload Date: 6/30/2010 8:37:08 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Station,Action |
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596 Comments: 7 |
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| Title: |
SOO 554 and SOO 231 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 10:59:24 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 554(GP9) |
| Views: |
875 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
working the caboose track |
| Description: |
at Daytons Bluff, the yard engine seems to be putting away a couple of wooden cabooses. Notice the pile of coal on the far left probably for the caboose stoves?! The caboose numbers are 13891 and 14332. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 5:49:57 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
| Views: |
888 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Soo transfer |
| Description: |
I like the combination of the F7A and the GP9. You can see that they are running with a 2nd unit ID |
| Photo Date: |
6/7/1969 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 4:21:50 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 2405(GP9) SOO 213A(F7A) |
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750 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
working on the lead |
| Description: |
yard engine is taking a caboose somewhere down the lead |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1968 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 4:41:56 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9412B(NW2) |
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736 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOO 2410 and CGW 54 |
| Description: |
Aat CGW State Street Yard, it looks like the Soo transfer from Shoreham has arrived! |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 11:07:33 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 2410(GP9) CGW 54(RS2) |
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1362 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
another look |
| Description: |
the yard engine takes a short break to let the road engine make a move |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1969 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:42:08 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CGW 805(GP30) CGW 804(GP30) CGW 54(RS2) |
| Views: |
1337 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
at Cedar lake |
| Description: |
and so it was beginning, as a lot of the things that we loved were starting to disappear! |
| Photo Date: |
12/29/1969 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:35:35 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CGW 114A(F3A) |
| Views: |
965 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
the big horses had arrived |
| Description: |
Maybe it was better with the red and purple F7 A's and B's, but these are also nice! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1969 Upload Date: 6/19/2010 3:39:45 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CGW 805(GP30) CGW 804(GP30) |
| Views: |
1073 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
yardmaster needs for us to hurry |
| Description: |
heading for the yard tracks at the west end of the hump yard |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 2:13:46 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 903(S12) |
| Views: |
729 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
a pair of gp30s |
| Description: |
sitting in the warmth and the glow of the western sun at the St Paul roundhouse |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 3:14:07 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 1008(GP30) MILW 1002(GP30) MILW 1501(GP35) |
| Views: |
1151 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
waiting to run |
| Description: |
at St Paul, Milwaukee Road trains came and went to and from the 4 main compass directions. They interchanged from several other railroads who in turn interchanged with them. St Paul Yard and the roundhouse were very busy places! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 3:32:41 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 1008(GP30) MILW 1002(GP30) MILW 1501(GP35) |
| Views: |
1044 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee cabeese |
| Description: |
on the westward freight main here is the rear end of a train with two cabeese. And for that reason I doubt that they were going to Duluth. I used to watch them going by Hoffman Avenue heading for the crossovers at Division Street with four F7s on the head end and four more as a helper on the rear end! After having sat idle in the yard, you should have seen the smoke rolling out of them as they crossed over at Division Street and headed up the hill passed Hamm's Brewery on their way north! That is going to Duluth on the NP! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 7:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Winter,Yard,Action |
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541 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
almost home |
| Description: |
Going by the roundhouse and the diesel service tracks, perhaps this is some local returning home to St Paul Yard. Did they arrive off the H&D from the west or off the I&M from the south, it is difficult to say or to know! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 3:49:03 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 570(RSD5) |
| Views: |
1546 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
reflecting the sun's light |
| Description: |
as the winter sun sits low in the western sky, this yard engine continues to work at St Paul Yard. I turned the page and nearly fell out of the chair, I had forgotten that one was there! Nice picture! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 1:55:35 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 903(S12) |
| Views: |
577 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NP RDC trip |
| Description: |
the backside of a semaphore signal at stop |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1967 Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:19:00 AM |
| Location: |
Carlton, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Passenger,Action |
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946 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NP RDC trip |
| Description: |
out on the High Iron and a clear block for rail fans! |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1967 Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:16:16 AM |
| Location: |
Carlton, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP B-42(RDC3) |
| Views: |
660 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NP RDC trip |
| Description: |
in a lot of places and to a lot of people this signal would have been called by its route signal name "Diverging Clear". But on the NP and the SP&S they were not route signals but speed signals. In this case the signal was called "Medium Clear". It was an indication as to speed and not the route to be used thru an interlocking. Two ways that different people in different places did and dared to think about the same things differently! So it once was but is no more! Today everything has to be the same for everybody! |
| Photo Date: |
10/1/1967 Upload Date: 6/11/2010 2:29:47 AM |
| Location: |
Carlton, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP B-42(RDC3) |
| Views: |
648 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
"Red Birds" |
| Description: |
There is not much that I can say, you either understand or you don't! |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1969 Upload Date: 6/10/2010 4:15:19 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 982(GP35) CBQ 515(SD24) |
| Views: |
1149 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
at Soo Line Jct |
| Description: |
bending the iron or if you wish reversing the switch on the NP westbound main at Soo Line Jct. The bridge heads to the St Paul freight house. How many freight houses were there in downtown St Paul? Let's count them 1) Soo Line 2) Great Northern 3) Northern Pacific 4) Chicago Great Western 5) the Omaha, not to be confused with the CNW and 6) the Milwaukee Road. The St Paul Union Depot saw passenger trains from these six plus also the Burlington and the Rock Island! |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1968 Upload Date: 6/9/2010 2:13:20 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 2413(GP9) SOO 556(GP9) |
| Views: |
1359 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
"Run Extra" |
| Description: |
heading north between Soo Line Jct and the main line at Cardigan Jct |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1968 Upload Date: 6/9/2010 2:17:15 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 556(GP9) SOO 2413(GP9) |
| Views: |
940 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
heading home to Shoreham |
| Description: |
running as a second unit id off coming home from St Paul. What were they doing there?! Probably interchanging cars with the Rock Island and the Chicago Great Western. |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1968 Upload Date: 6/9/2010 2:23:16 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 556(GP9) SOO 2413(GP9) |
| Views: |
865 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
run thru power |
| Description: |
Between the interlocking towers of St Anthony on the west end of the 4 track GN main and St Anthony Park on the double track NP main (not to be confused with Park Jct and the Minnesota Transfer crossing)--- I felt lucky to catch this set of run thru power on the Union Cutoff. As to why this transfer from Daytons Bluff came up the NP and then went thru the Union Cutoff at St Anthony Park instead of coming west on the GN freight mains from Westminster Tower is beyond me! So where was St Anthony Park and the Union Cutoff you ask?! Just west of the state fair grounds and Snelling Avenue where the circus trains used to unload and maybe still do today. |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1969 Upload Date: 6/6/2010 5:18:47 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 982(GP35) CBQ 515(SD24) EL 2572(GP35) EL 2458(C425) |
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1361 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Extra 375 Eask |
| Description: |
having arrived from the west perhaps as far as Mandan on the Yellowstone Division, here are a pair of NP road switchers with the new simplified paint scheme. Was is "classic NP"?! Not for me, no it was not! But the times they were a changing, as so it was noted in a song by Bob Dylan who was born in Duluth! Most people think or believed that the NP was double track west of the Twin Cities. But that is only partly true. Between Northtown (University Avenue) and St Cloud, it was joint double track with the GN owning the eastward track! |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1969 Upload Date: 6/6/2010 4:18:04 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 375(GP9) NP 909(RS11) |
| Views: |
2523 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
cold and overcast |
| Description: |
the BN merger had arrived and the GN goat was now frozen in time! Some of us still remember, but the sad truth is that most people do not know and do not care that he even ever existed. The sleek, new streamlined "Big Sky Blue" image had lasted only a few short years and now he was fading into the pages of history. Faded but not forgotten by those of us who once knew and loved him! |
| Photo Date: |
1/12/1971 Upload Date: 6/4/2010 8:33:22 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6110(SD9) |
| Views: |
880 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
8690 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Ready For Work |
| Description: |
In the minds of some people, the NP lived in the shadow of the GN. And to others, it just simply was NOT that way! Some thought that it was the "Great Northern"--- Pacific and others thought that it was the Great--- "Northern Pacific"! Was it all done and settled with the coming of the Burlington Northern merger?! Some may have though so, but to others the question is still very much alive. And so for some the debate continues! |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1969 Upload Date: 6/4/2010 5:01:32 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 317(GP9) |
| Views: |
3624 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Classic NP |
| Description: |
looking west at St Anthony Park or the Union Cutoff as it was later known after the interlocking tower was gone. Semaphores aid wooden cabooses, I just love it! And there was not then a whole lot for computers either! "Big Brother" just did NOT know where everyone was nor what it was that
hey were doing! The question is, are we any better off or do we feel any safer, now that he does?! |
| Photo Date: |
11/1/1969 Upload Date: 6/3/2010 5:19:37 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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491 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slow Clear |
| Description: |
according to the 1967 Consolidated Code, the NP and;the SP&S used speed signals compared to the GN and others which used route signals. It is two different ways of doing the same thing. The signals might have looked the same, but
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| Photo Date: |
11/1/1969 Upload Date: 6/3/2010 4:58:41 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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430 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
GN Bay window caboose |
| Description: |
GN Double track at the Carlton interlocking or NP crossing if you wish! You can also see the snow flanger sign at the bottom of the picture. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/14/2010 4:29:18 AM |
| Location: |
Carlton, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
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1732 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NP GE uboats 2811, 2805 &EMD sd45 3619 |
| Description: |
at Northtown before the BN merger! |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/13/2010 2:11:46 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
| Locomotives: |
NP 2811(U28C) NP 2805(U28C) NP 3619(SD45) |
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3757 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
climbing up the hill on the NP double track |
| Description: |
this CB&Q transfer was observed climbing the hill out of St Paul and the Great River valley. They were heading west towards Northtown and had just passed Trout Brook Jct and Mississippi Street. Sometimes there were two engines and sometimes three, but this was typical of the way that things were done. And yes, the engines always faced west as they ran around the Twin Cities making connections with other railroads! But one day soon the inbound power from La Crosse would no longer cutoff at Daytons Bluff and the "Red Birds" as they were known would run thru as they took their trains and made their connections with Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. And my time on the Milwaukee Road would be interrupted and cut short by the period of time that I spent in the US Navy Submarine service. But I did not know that when I returned home, that it would be the beginning of 30 years as a trick dispatcher on the Burlington Northern Railroad! |
| Photo Date: |
12/1/1969 Upload Date: 5/31/2010 6:45:44 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9411B(NW2) |
| Views: |
468 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting to be of service |
| Description: |
a classic pair of 300 class geeps just out of the roundhouse and off the turntable at Northtown wait for their next assignment. Whatever the train might be, it looks to me like the dispatcher will be calling it and thus identifying it as "Extra 327 West"! |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/31/2010 5:18:42 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP 327(GP9) NP 324(GP9) |
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2596 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
westbound at Hoffman Avenue |
| Description: |
after leaving St Paul Yard on the westbound freight main and approaching the St Paul Union Depot still off in the distance, you can make out the Milwaukee switch engine at the "old yard" and the signal bridge at Division Street. The closer signal bridge with the approach signal is the west end of the Hoffman Avenue interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/31/2010 3:52:14 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 564(AS616) MILW 573(RSD5) MILW 565(AS616) |
| Views: |
1199 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MILW 564 and MILW 573 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
7/15/1969 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 11:57:47 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 564(AS616) MILW 573(RSD5) |
| Views: |
1127 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
on the Milwaukee westbound freight main |
| Description: |
at Hoffman Avenue, perhaps this is the time freight south to Austin on the Iowa and Minnesota. I was able to get this picture as I was working there as the second trick tower operator/ leverman. Hoffman Avenue was a "strong arm" pipeline interlocking plant with six tracks, 3 Milwaukee on the river side and 3 Burlington on the bluff side. The Milwaukee freight mains were right hand running and the two joint track passenger mains in the middle that ran in between thus separating St Paul Yard on the Milwaukee and Daytons Bluff on the Burlington, were left hand running! I liked working there, it was a very busy place! It was my first job on the railroad. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/31/2010 3:20:10 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 565(AS616) MILW 573(RSD5) MILW 564(AS616) |
| Views: |
1937 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
1709 Comments: 10 |
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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: |
1088 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
on the main |
| Description: |
Somewhere south of St Paul is all that I really know! place and date unknown |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/24/2010 5:03:41 AM |
| Location: |
Randolph, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CGW 109C(F3A) |
| Views: |
739 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
1183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crossing the Rock Island |
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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! |
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6/1/1968 Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:51:22 PM |
| Location: |
Inver Grove Heights, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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RollingStock,Action |
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CGW 109C(F3A) |
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GN 122 and the 3rd street NP switch tender |
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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 |
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Roster,Yard,Action |
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GN 122(NW2) |
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CGW 13 and CGW 617 |
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notice the green Railway Express Agency truck! |
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4/30/1967 Upload Date: 1/6/2009 12:56:56 AM |
| Location: |
Red Wing, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station |
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CGW 13(S1) |
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once there were |
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friction bearings, bar codes and the green CN maple leaf was a common site "in the northland". |
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6/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/20/2010 3:28:09 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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waiting for the block to clear |
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Having seen these engines come into Northtown where they earlier cutoff from their train, they are now waiting for a double red signal at Park Jct. This NP tower protected the crossing with the Minnesota Transfer which headed north from their yard in the Midway to meet the Soo Line at New Brighton. This light engine was heading east to Mississippi Street in St Paul. |
| Photo Date: |
6/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/12/2010 1:12:19 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NP 371(GP9) NP 858(RS3) |
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1400 Comments: 0 |
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in another place and time |
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When I took this picture, I was a young stallion about 23 years old and our son was 6 weeks old. I was a young sailor in the US Navy going to submarine school! I did not want to, but I did not want to be in the army in that place in SE Asia, where our underwear is now made! I'm now older than this caboose which was built in 1914 and I had no idea at the time that in about 6 and 1/2 years, I would be back home in St Paul, Minnesota going to dispatchers school on the Burlington Northern Railroad! The 2 cars in this picture are CN 546738 and BN 455990. Perhaps there are clues in life that can tell us ahead of time, where we are going and the things that we might do when we get there! At that time, I had no idea that I would retire with 30 years service as a trick dispatcher and over 40 years railroad service! When I started on the Milwaukee Road in St Paul after I hired out and took my first rules exam in La Crosse, Wisconsin--- I was only 19 years old and I had not yet a clue as to how and where that I would fit into that which James J Hill called, his great adventure! |
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10/30/1972 Upload Date: 5/14/2010 1:08:00 AM |
| Location: |
New London, CT |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
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CV 4551 |
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3/1/1972 Upload Date: 1/13/2009 11:29:21 AM |
| Location: |
New London, CT |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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CV 4551(GP9) |
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Somewhere out on the road |
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CV 4551 with white flags and class lamps indicating that the dispatcher had created an "extra" train. Notice the engine bell over the headlight which might be saying that they ran long nose leading. |
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10/30/1972 Upload Date: 5/13/2010 11:15:05 PM |
| Location: |
New London, CT |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
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Roster,RollingStock,Action |
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CV 4551(GP9) |
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