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Title: |
A view from the "back" |
Description: |
A view of the "back" end of the PGR 34. It is the "back" in name only duie to the ditch lights for cab-first running. 34 was parked lashed up to two covered joppers at Lyndale Siding this evening. |
Photo Date: |
6/17/2013 Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:57 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Yard |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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577 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Dig that logo! |
Description: |
The Progressive Rail logo on the PGR 34 at Lyndale Siding. |
Photo Date: |
6/17/2013 Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:04:00 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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677 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Hello again! |
Description: |
When I first saw this unit working the Hi-Line, it's number was 2347. On This b}eezy, deliciously mild mid-June evening the now-renumbered (and re-painted) unit is at Lyndale Siding on the Hi-Line. The 34 is lashed to a couple hoppers. I hfve it on good authority this unit was used down in the Lakeville-Northfield area for a time. |
Photo Date: |
6/17/2013 Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:11 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Yard |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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707 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Slipping Past the Parked Hoppers |
Description: |
The three-car southbound PGR "High Line" local with PGR 34 on the hind end sneaks around a cut of parked hopper cars south of 86th Street as it heads on down the old MN&S. |
Photo Date: |
1/15/2014 Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:12:38 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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588 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Swinging Back Onto The Main |
Description: |
The PGR "High Line" local heads back onto the "main" track after sneaking around a cut of parked hoppers south of 86th Street as it continues on its southbound trek. |
Photo Date: |
1/15/2014 Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:13:35 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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516 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
What was the 34 doing here? |
Description: |
The southbound PGR "High Line" local had a short cut of covered hoppers in tow as it crossed 86th Street this day... and had PGR 34 bringing up the rear, apparently idling but unmanned. Why was this, anybody know? |
Photo Date: |
1/15/2014 Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:11:36 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
529 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Two Locos At The Lyndale "Shops" |
Description: |
PGR now is housing two locomotives at the Lyndale "shops" along the Dan Patch Line (aka Hi-Line). What happened to the MN&S caboose they used to store here? |
Photo Date: |
3/18/2014 Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:19:42 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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653 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
"Mission Before Money" |
Description: |
I love the sign they got affixed to the fence at the Lyndale "shops" for the PGR's Dan Patch Line. I still wonder where MN&S bay window caboose 102 went? |
Photo Date: |
5/5/2014 Upload Date: 5/6/2014 12:37:02 AM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
690 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Switching In Suburbia |
Description: |
Office parks border the spur track in PGR's freight house, resulting in views like this when crews switch it. On this gorgeous late April afternoon, the PGR crew goes about its duties while workers at their cubicles go about their workdays in a more ho hum manner. (It's "Office Space" meets "Brewster's Millions" out here.) |
Photo Date: |
4/27/2015 Upload Date: 5/2/2015 3:14:08 AM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
517 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Three For One |
Description: |
I wound up not only getting RRV$W 4104 in this shot, but PGR's two Dan Patch Line units as well. |
Photo Date: |
5/15/2015 Upload Date: 5/15/2015 4:30:15 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
RRVW 4104(GP15C) PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
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798 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sleepy Day On The Dan Patch Line |
Description: |
The motive power for the Dan Patch Line rests beneath slowly clearing skies on a Wednesday afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
5/20/2015 Upload Date: 5/20/2015 4:58:36 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Richard Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
615 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossing Old Shakopee Road |
Description: |
The Progressive Rail crew heads on up to Nesbitt Siding to pick up the interfhange the CP 0630 brought them. |
Photo Date: |
8/10/2015 Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:07:55 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
Views: |
685 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The MN&S Lives |
Description: |
The Progressive Rail crew approaches Old Shakopee Road after departing Auto Club Junction bound for the string of interchange awaiting them upby Nesbitt Siding. Their motive power looks like the ghosts of the MN&S, albeit ghosts brought back to life in the present day a la Mr. Spock's resurrection. |
Photo Date: |
8/11/2015 Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:33:52 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
644 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Waiting In The Deep Freeze |
Description: |
Progressive Rail's Dan Path Line power sits in the "shops" located on the Hi-Line a block west of Lyndale Avenue on a sun-scrubbed but bone-chilling Sunday afternoon in early January. |
Photo Date: |
1/10/2016 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 4:54:59 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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563 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
At Rest |
Description: |
The Dan Patch Line duo rests beneath partly cloudy skie} on a remarkably mild February afternoon in the "shop" located southwest of Lyndale Avenue. |
Photo Date: |
2/16/2016 Upload Date: 2/16/2016 6:25:37 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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513 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
At Freighthouse Seven |
Description: |
The 34 sits beneath balmy April skies at Freighthouse Seven in Bloomington. Progressive Rail sure knows how to revitalize a rail line. |
Photo Date: |
4/18/2016 Upload Date: 4/18/2016 3:45:53 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
473 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
PGR 34 At The Freighthouse |
Description: |
Another view of PGR 34 at the Bloomington freighthouse. Who said boxcars were dead as a mode of commodity transport? The 34 was sitting shut down on the freighthouse grounds beneath mostly cloudy skies during the noon hour on a balmy Monday afternoon in April. |
Photo Date: |
4/18/2016 Upload Date: 4/18/2016 3:46:15 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
597 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
At Rest Outside The "Shop" |
Description: |
Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line duo sit at rest outside the PGR's "shop" west of Lyndale Avenue on Memorial Day 2016. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2016 Upload Date: 5/31/2016 10:36:29 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
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632 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
PGR 34 |
Description: |
Nose view. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/2016 Upload Date: 5/31/2016 10:36:42 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
487 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
South of 86th Street |
Description: |
The Progressive Rail crew pauses in the middle of a switching move south of 86th Street beneath gray but surprisingly mild November skies. |
Photo Date: |
11/29/2016 Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:17:39 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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507 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Switching Amidst Industry |
Description: |
The PGR crew has pulled ahead on a switching move south of 86th Street. I do not know if they were switching an industry, or sorting out stored cars. The industry in the background provides a swell backdrop for the two locomotives whose paint schemes are virtually identical to that used by the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern, which once operated this line. |
Photo Date: |
11/29/2016 Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:18:13 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
Views: |
562 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Dan Patch Line Power In Repose |
Description: |
Parked on the main line instead of the spur (due to a movement to be made into Ziegler CAT?), the Dan Patch Line motive power rests beneath balmy Saturday afternoon skies on National Train Day 2018. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/2018 Upload Date: 5/5/2018 10:19:18 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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438 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Duo Is In |
Description: |
PGR 34 and 36 parked on the main southwest of Lyndale on a lovely July afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
7/16/2018 Upload Date: 7/24/2018 11:59:31 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
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525 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Paused At Lyndale |
Description: |
The Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line crew apparently paused in the middle of their work, shut the 34 and 36 down, and "went for beans" (i.e., lunch) by the time I showed up and captured my latest portrait of the Dan Patch Line duo. |
Photo Date: |
3/27/2019 Upload Date: 3/27/2019 11:28:32 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
Views: |
496 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Taking A Breather |
Description: |
The Dan Patch Line's motive power takes a breather a few blocks southwest of Lyndale Avenue down by Ziegler CAT while basking beneath clear, mild skies on the last day of February 2022. |
Photo Date: |
2/28/2022 Upload Date: 2/28/2022 7:45:13 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Winter |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
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262 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Break Time |
Description: |
Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line motive power sits shut off down by Ziegler CAT early on the mild afternoon of the last day of February 2022. PGR 36 now sports a "Join Our Team" banner, promoting PGR to prospective employees. |
Photo Date: |
2/28/2022 Upload Date: 2/28/2022 7:47:32 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster,Winter |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
Views: |
284 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossing Old Shakopee |
Description: |
A Progressive Rail crew with #34 for power crosses Old Shakopee Road with a string of cars for interchange with CP twenty minutes before 9 a.m. on a Friday morning. |
Photo Date: |
8/26/2022 Upload Date: 8/26/2022 11:15:06 AM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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231 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Reunited |
Description: |
After being sidelined for mechanical repairs, Progressive Rail 36 is back with its compatriot PGR 34 on the Hi-Line. Here the duo soaks up a very mild October sun at Lyndale early on a Monday afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
10/10/2022 Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:12:20 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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295 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Oxboro On A Sunday Morning |
Description: |
A view of Oxboro Siding late on a Sunday morning--and the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, 2023. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 5/29/2023 9:23:10 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
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176 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Low Angle Shot |
Description: |
Here is a view of Progressive Rail 34 from a low angle, courtesy of yours truly. She seems quite stately in such a view, no? |
Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 5/29/2023 9:18:35 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
190 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First Pic Of 2024! |
Description: |
My first railfan run of 2024 took me to Progressive Rail's Dan Patch line, and the first pic was of the line's SW1500 duo down at the "shops" southwest of Lyndale Avenue on a snow-free February afternoon courtesy of a strong El Nino (though, coincidentally, a storm was destined to drop some snow the very next day!) |
Photo Date: |
2/13/2024 Upload Date: 3/2/2024 11:12:13 AM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500) |
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154 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
In For Work? |
Description: |
To my surprise, PGR 34 was parked on the spur leading into Ziegler CAT this day. Perhaps she was in awaiting work of some sort? Whatever the reason, it made for a unique photo. |
Photo Date: |
12/7/2024 Upload Date: 1/14/2025 10:35:46 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
100 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Parked Separately |
Description: |
Usually Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line power can be found coupled together at the open air "shops" west of Lyndale Avenue on the old Hi-Line. This mild Saturday afternoon, however, they were decoupled with PGR 34 on the spur into Ziegler CAT and PGR 36 out on the main. Perhaps the 34 was awaiting repairs of some sort? |
Photo Date: |
12/7/2024 Upload Date: 1/14/2025 10:35:27 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Parked With Interchange |
Description: |
Progressive Rail's MN&S veteran SW1500 was parked down by I-35W late on the morning of Memorial Day 2025 with a boxcar and three loaded centerbeam flatcars obviously just in from the CPKC. Meanwhile, PGR 34 (just visible at right) basked in the sun on the spur into Ziegler CAT. |
Photo Date: |
5/26/2025 Upload Date: 6/10/2025 9:55:15 PM |
Location: |
Bloomington, MN |
Author: |
Tony Held |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500) |
Views: |
39 Comments: 0 |
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