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| Title: |
CBQ 9986 (with green class lamps?!) |
| Description: |
Just out of the St Paul Union Depot which served 8 different railroads & had 23 tracks--- leaving Division Street on the CB&Q & approaching Hoffman Avenue on the Milwaukee--- four CB&Q E8/ E9 passenger engines have the combined Morning Zephyr & the GN Empire Builder with NP North Coast Limited as a second section of the same schedule soon to follow, headed on its way down the upper Mississippi River valley to LaCrosse & Chicago!!! The Burlington ran on the Wisconsin side of the river & the Milwaukee Road ran on Minnesota side, with the Milwaukee Hiawathas & Burlington Zephyrs racing & chasing each other up & down the river valley between St Croix Tower, Minnesota & La Crosse, Wisconsin. The joint track passenger mains were left hand running and the Milwaukee Road freight mains were right hand running!!! Today it is all CTC, the interlocking towers where I once worked & the roundhouse @ Dayton's Bluff are long gone & the glory that was the St. Paul Union Depot is now a parking lot!!! Most people today have no idea of what was once here & the different railroads that ran & interchanged cars between themselves!!! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 8/11/2007 10:02:13 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9986A(E9A) |
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2443 Comments: 13 |
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| Title: |
CBQ 9987A |
| Description: |
Passing Dunn @the east end of St Paul Yard on the Milwaukee Road and Dayton's Bluff on Burlington- "Running with the current of traffic" meaning east on the Eastward track along highway 61 between Oakland and the dispatcher @Newport--- this was joint double track with the Rock Island having trackage rights west of Newport to St Paul. It was left hand running because of the climb up and out of the Mississippi River valley west of St Croix Tower near Hastings, Minnesota on the Milwaukee and Prescott, Wisconsin on the Burlington--- where the St Croix river joins the mighty Mississippi on its way to New Orleans!!! |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1968 Upload Date: 8/16/2007 11:03:11 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9987A(E9A) |
| Views: |
1484 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Going by Dunn yard |
| Description: |
out of St Paul and after passing Oakland tower, an eastbound CB&Q passenger train was seen racing by the east end of Dunn yard which in those days was only four tracks. The joint double track was still train orders and was left hand running. |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/1969 Upload Date: 7/1/2010 12:49:09 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9987A(E9A) |
| Views: |
811 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going to Chicago |
| Description: |
Eastbound CB&Q passenger train out of St Paul races along Hwy 61 in a time when it was NOT the madhouse, that it is today! |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/1969 Upload Date: 7/1/2010 12:54:20 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CBQ 9987A(E9A) |
| Views: |
907 Comments: 0 |
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