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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) |
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1792 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MILW 115C |
| Description: |
Here is a Milwaumee eastbound at the CGW lift bridge over the Mississippi River at Robert Street on the west end of the St Paul Union Depot. The ctc control operator for the "short line holl" to Minneapolis was located at Chestnut Street was just west of here. |
| Photo Date: |
4/18/1967 Upload Date: 12/19/2008 1:08:43 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MILW 115C(F7A) |
| Views: |
1627 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SOO 213A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 10:42:20 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 213A(F7A) |
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831 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SOO 2405 and SOO 213A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 10:45:45 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 2405(GP9) SOO 213A(F7A) |
| Views: |
1149 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) |
| Views: |
842 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
1373 Comments: 1 |
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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) |
| Views: |
2159 Comments: 3 |
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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) |
| Views: |
1612 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Coming off the Iron Range |
| Description: |
Once it was double track all the way to Gunn. At Brookston, the line to Kelly Lake and Hibbing departed from the Cass Lake main. Many train loads of wheat and other grain crops from northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota came this way to the elevators in Duluth and Superior. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1969 Upload Date: 5/14/2010 4:25:08 AM |
| Location: |
Carlton, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GN 317a(F7A) |
| Views: |
1120 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: |
1132 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: |
1100 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: |
1235 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
1343 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SOO 2227A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
8/1/1968 Upload Date: 1/23/2009 10:16:14 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
SOO 2227A(F7A) |
| Views: |
734 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&O 4594 |
| Description: |
it was a long time ago but i believe that this coal train probably just came off the P&LE and i do remember that they are going by UN Tower at the east end of New Castle yard--- i was about 15 years old maybe 16 and i spent a lot of time around the tower that summer when we went "back east" where my mom grew up!!! i did NOT know or realize that this would be a part of my training for the days when i would someday be a dispatcher on the Burlington Northern Railroad!!! |
| Photo Date: |
6/7/1965 Upload Date: 1/12/2009 2:31:51 AM |
| Location: |
West Pittsburg, PA |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BO 4594(F7A) |
| Views: |
1491 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NP 6010A and NP 6003D |
| Description: |
Date Approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
6/1/1968 Upload Date: 8/21/2007 4:43:55 AM |
| Location: |
Duluth, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6010A(F7A) NP 6003D(F3A) |
| Views: |
2922 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
another look close up |
| Description: |
classic NP and maybe not seen as much as were the GP7/9s. Or at least not by me! I guess it just depended upon the part of the railroad that you were seeing at the time! In other words, different engines ran in different places, and not just anywhere at any time! Different things were in different places and so there was "a taste and a flavor" to things, and that was part of the fun of it! |
| Photo Date: |
8/1/1969 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 3:40:54 AM |
| Location: |
Duluth, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 707(S2) NP 6010A(F7A) NP 6003D(F3A) |
| Views: |
2245 Comments: 2 |
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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: |
2217 Comments: 10 |
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| Title: |
NP 6507A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:40:17 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6507A(F7A) |
| Views: |
1266 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NP 6507A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 3:13:40 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6507A(F7A) |
| Views: |
1975 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NP 6513A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:30:01 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6513A(F7A) |
| Views: |
723 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NP 6513A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:11:25 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6513A(F7A) |
| Views: |
2209 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NP 6513A |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 1:19:06 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6513A(F7A) |
| Views: |
990 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NP 6513C |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/9/1969 Upload Date: 1/25/2009 3:03:44 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Steven Rush |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
NP 6513C(F7A) |
| Views: |
1908 Comments: 1 |
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