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| Title: |
Along The Bluffs |
| Description: |
"Wow" is all you can really say about the limestone bluffs of the St. Croix river valley. Here the train is at 10 MPH so it can stop quickly in case a rock fall is on the tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:51:15 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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| Title: |
10 MPH Is Mandatory |
| Description: |
The Dresser sub has a strict 10 MPH speed limit from Osceola to south of the Cedar Bend drawbridge due to the chance of rock falls on the tracks. Here the afternoon train to Marine crawls along at the prescribed speed beneath the imposing bluffs. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:51:44 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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| Title: |
Here Comes The St. Croix! |
| Description: |
The afternoon train to Marine reaches the stretch of track that paralells the river before the line crosses it at the Cedar Bend drawbridge. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:55:46 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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211 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Off We Go! |
| Description: |
The afternoon train to Marine begins its descent into the St. Croix River valley. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/5/2012 8:50:46 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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234 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Almost There |
| Description: |
The crew aboard MTM's Soo Line-painted geep nurse it along the rickety rails of the passing siding at Marine in order to couple up for the northbound return trip to Osceola. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:27:03 PM |
| Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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222 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming Up To Couple On |
| Description: |
The crew aboard MTM's Soo Line-painted geep eases up to couple on and take the train back to Osceola from the Dresser depot. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 7:35:48 AM |
| Location: |
Dresser, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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290 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On Down The Wobbly Rails |
| Description: |
The crew aboard Minnesota Transportation Museum 559 (a Soo Line-painted GP7) runs long-hood forward down the passing siding at Marine to couple onto the opposite end for the trip back to Osceola. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:27:21 PM |
| Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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186 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
I Could Not Resist |
| Description: |
I couldn't resist a shot of the nose of MTM's geep framed in the doorway of their NP RPO car. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 1:48:14 PM |
| Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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185 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just About To Couple Up |
| Description: |
The crew aboard MTM's Soo Line-painted ex-Rock Island/Chicago and North Western/Fox River Valley/Wisconsin Central unit is just about to couple up onto the other end of the train to Dresser for the trip back to Osceola. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 11:08:42 AM |
| Location: |
Dresser, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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286 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hello Dresser! |
| Description: |
The light passenger load and MTM crew disembarks at the Dresser depot on a lovely Saturday afternoon. The geep will soon be cut off and run around on a passing siding for the trip back to Osceola. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 11:07:30 AM |
| Location: |
Dresser, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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441 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Osceola, Ho! |
| Description: |
A view from MTM's Northern Pacific RPO car as the train heads back to Osceola. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/3/2012 9:26:39 PM |
| Location: |
Marine on Saint Croix, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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329 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just Arrived |
| Description: |
Here is today's Osceola & St. Croix Valley train just in from the first trip to Marine on St. Croix prior to departing for the run to Dresser. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 7:26:56 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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282 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Onto The Cedar Bend Drawbridge |
| Description: |
The afternoon train to Marine crosses the swollen St. Croix River on the 1887-vintage Cedar Bend drawbridge. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 7:31:50 AM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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252 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Passing Milepost 44 |
| Description: |
The train to Dresser heads back to the Osceola depot. Here the train crossed a road guarded by crossbucks at milepost 44 on the Dresser Subdivision. |
| Photo Date: |
6/2/2012 Upload Date: 6/4/2012 1:44:32 PM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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204 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cascade Green Gem |
| Description: |
Minnesota Transportation Museum's classic Burlington Northern SD9 attracts visitors while on display at St. Paul Union Depot for National Train Day 2018. MTM's Train Days display train, led by their Soo Line-painted ex-Rock Island geep, is in the left background. |
| Photo Date: |
5/5/2018 Upload Date: 5/5/2018 7:47:51 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6234(SD9) MNTX 559(GP7) |
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143 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MTM Display Train |
| Description: |
MTM's display train basks beneath partly sunny skies at St. Paul Union Depot during National Train Day 2018. Friends of the 261's display train is in the left background. |
| Photo Date: |
5/5/2018 Upload Date: 5/5/2018 9:37:49 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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233 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Great Northern Glory |
| Description: |
Great Northern A-11, pride of the Minnesota Transportation Museum, proudly brings up the markers on MTM's Train Days 2018 display train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/5/2018 Upload Date: 5/5/2018 9:38:26 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) |
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481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A Duo At Rest |
| Description: |
MTM's GP7 and SDP40 bask on the house track at the Osceola depot on the Saturday of the long July 4 weekend. |
| Photo Date: |
7/6/2019 Upload Date: 7/16/2019 10:20:11 PM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) BN 325(SDP40) |
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186 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
"Rocky Soo" |
| Description: |
The Rock Island had a sizable stable of GP7s that later wound up on the Chicago and North Western and then shortlines like the Fox River Valley. This Rock Island geep was acquired by MTM from Wisconsin Central to become a Soo Line-painted unit for the Osceola line. Incidentally, the Rock used to send transfer runs from Inver Grove Heights, MN, to the Soo at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, and the run was dubbed the "Rocky-Soo". I have long nicknamed the 559 "Rocky Soo" because of this. |
| Photo Date: |
7/6/2019 Upload Date: 7/16/2019 11:01:13 PM |
| Location: |
Osceola, WI |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
MNTX 559(GP7) BN 325(SDP40) |
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209 Comments: 0 |
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