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Mr. Stickney Would Despair |
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This CGW grade fragment can be found at 3rd Street North in Nerstrand proper. Now in use as a private road, all you hear today is the hum of insects where steam engines chuffed and diesels growled. Ol' A.B. Stickney would despair if he saw scenes like this from the remains of the railway he labored to build long ago. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:47:04 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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Another Bingo! |
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Affixed to the still in operation 7th Ave NW grade crossing along the 1.4 mile stretch of CGW track left in town is this U.S. Dot plate stamped for the CNW! The other crossbuck has one as well. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/12/2011 4:02:39 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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From Rails To Private Road |
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On the south side of 150th street, a portion of a substantial chunk of former CGW grade has apparently been cleared for a few hundred feet as a road for a nearby residence. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:39:21 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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Paved Path Where SDs Once Chanted |
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Where high short hooded Milwaukee Road SD7s once chanted on the Zumbrota branch, now you can take a stroll on it for a few miles starting on the east side of 9th Avenue South near the Kwik Trip. West of here the trail meanders through apartments and other ousing that took over the Zumbrota branch right-of-way after abandonment. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 3:05:04 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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Mystery Crossbuck |
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This lone crossbuck stands a little bit east of the main Division Street grade crossing for a long-gone mystery track of the Milwaukee Road. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/12/2011 3:34:45 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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Bingo! |
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A U.S. DOT plate stamped "MILW" can be found on a crossbuck just east of the main railway crossing on Division street. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/12/2011 3:34:59 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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| Title: |
Six Tracks All Gone |
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We are looking down the southern end of the site of the six-track Milwaukee Road Faribault yard. Six tracks once exsisted to accomodate traffic flowing in from the branch to Zumbrota. Today this part is filled with weeds and scrub. Ironcially enough, in its last years the yard became so overgrown the rails became hard to see. Division street is in the distance, marked by a white pickup truck. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:37:57 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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From Tracks To Trees |
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Where weed-covered rails once lay, trees-and a lone "no trespassing" sign-stand today in the north end of the Milwaukee Road Faribault yard. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:38:21 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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Vintage Warning |
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Judging by the rust and font, I'd say this sign dates back to Milwaukee Road times. It's all you can find today in the Faribault yard site that's railroad related |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:44:40 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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The Great Jungle Route |
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On the north side of 150th street, the north side of a hunk of remaining CGW right-of-way has gone from The Corn Belt Route to The Great Jungle Route. Wouldn't want to tromp around in there unless it was spring or fall! |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:38:40 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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The Engine House Site |
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I came across this wooded mystery track near the Division Street grade crossing. At first I assumed it was from a long-dead spur track. However, a check of the "Faribault 1930" track map on page 94 of John C. Luecke's "More Milwaukee Road In Minnesota", I concluded that this track actually belonged to the single-stall engine house that used to be here. JCL recounts in the book how, in all his years in Faribault, he never saw a diesel being serviced here. Apparently the structure had become just a curiosity after the demise of steam until it finally fell to the wreckers in 1983. (JCL recently confirmed that this is indeed the engine house site. Thanks John!) |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 11:52:04 PM |
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Faribault, MN |
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Is That Where The CGW Was? |
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I found this on the south side of 160th street where the map on my Chevy Cruze still showed the CGW main. The fact the road still goes up and over along with this fragment in the precise spot the tracks would have been leads me to conclude this is more ex-CGW remains, though not by much. Farmers sure didn't waste time wiping out grade for more farm fields. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:25:21 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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A Glimpse Of Forbidden Fruit |
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While I hiked down this grade fragment that starts at 3rd Street North a little, the metal gate put up by the owners (and the sound of what seemed like a massive bee!) halted my stroll on the CGW but I whipped out the camera and on digital zoom took this shot beyond the gate to show where the grade breaks into a clearing. Note: only this and the "Mr. Stickney Would Despair" pic in this album were taken in the town of Nerstrand itself. The other shots with the town's name were taken a couple miles north, though the GPS feature in my Chevy Cruze said streets like 150th and 160th were in "Nerstrand." |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:47:32 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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A Look Down The Grade |
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Using digital zoom, I shot over the white fence blocking egress to this part of the CGW grade on the south side of 150th street. Where the cleared patch ends, vegetation consumes the route A.B. Stickney once likened to a babbling brook that ran forever. |
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9/10/2011 Upload Date: 9/11/2011 2:38:56 PM |
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Nerstrand, MN |
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Where The Swing Bridge Stood |
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A wider angle shot showing the massive pier that used to denote where the swing portion of the span was. Note the remaining rails on the bridge. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:44:41 PM |
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Winona, MN |
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CNW Bridge Fragment |
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Standing like a man-made island in Old Man River is this remaining piece from the C&NW Winona swing bridge, closed in 1977. For complete details go here: http://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississippi/pagesA/umissAR04.html |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:43:21 PM |
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Winona, MN |
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Rusty Rails And Railings |
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Incredibly, the C&NW left the track intact on their old bridge when they stopped using it in December of 1977. Now they and the railings just accumulate rust, while local youths leave their own marks, as the spray painted "Orio" in the bottom right shows. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:44:16 PM |
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Winona, MN |
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Vanquished By The Truck |
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From this angle, it looks like this spur track behind the former Tonka Toys building in Mound is just another unused spur jutting off the main line. What lurks around the cruve proves otherwise. Note the truck, great enemy of the train, in the backround on the left. What an ironic scene it makes! |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:52:32 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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They Even Posted Them Here |
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The HCRRA is pretty strict about marking what is their property. This sign is on the old Hutch branch behind the former Tonka Toys factory next to a nameless road crossing connecting the now multi-use building to Lynwood Blvd. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:02:52 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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From Tickets To Picnics |
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The depot in Mound got moved down to Mound Bay park awhile back, given a basement and other modifications, and turned into a picnic pavilion. Not bad. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:39:33 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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Heritage Nod |
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This sign adorns the former Mound depot on what used to be the platform side. Today picnic goers pass by it blase to how it once provided a front row seat to branch line railroading on the old Great Northern between Wayzata and Hutchinson. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:40:09 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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The Former Platform Side |
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The old platform side of the Mound depot now has lawn instead of tracks in front while it awaits the next renting for a big family picnic. I'd prefer a GN 2-8-0 out front breathing steam as it sits on twin bands of steel. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:39:53 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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Where The Switch Used To Be |
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Once upon a time behind the former Tonka Toys building, you could find a main track and a spur jutting off from a switch. Now only the spur track remains while asphalt covers the main roadbed like a burial shroud. The trail crossing is a nameless street connecting the now multi-use Tonka Toys structure with Lynwood Blvd. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:53:21 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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| Title: |
No More Boxcars |
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I'm sure way back when boxcars got swtiched on and off this spur with some frequency. Now these twin bands of steel gather rust and memorialize the old Hutchinson branch of the Great Northern, then the Burlington Northern, and finally, doomed short line Dakota Rail. The now-trail transformed "main line" is just to the left. |
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10/11/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 9:52:52 AM |
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Mound, MN |
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The Orange And Black Once Crossed Here |
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Lash-ups of orange and black Milwaukee Road diesels used to chant across 494 on this bridge. Today, only the occasional intrepid hiker goes across. Sure is still in good shape. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 7:45:47 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Half-Abandoned Carcass |
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Oddly enough, when whoever decided to tear up the tracks from Eagandale Blvd to the 35E bridge did the dirty deed, they left the switch that connected the dual tracks on the bridge to the tail track half-torn up. Lousy job. Photographic break for me, though. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:41:16 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Milwaukee Road Monument |
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On the north side of the Mendota Heights Road grade crossing site, a lone telegraph pole remains to mark where the Milwaukee Road once ran as it came up from the Minnesota River valley. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:52:32 PM |
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Mendota Heights, MN |
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A Look Across |
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Looking across the former Milwaukee Road bridge over 494 from the southern side. Interesting irony how the faux "handrails" now serve a purpose. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:17:00 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Looking Up The Line |
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Except for the sign advertising office space and some trees, the grass-covered I & M right-of-way at the Mendota Heights Business Park has fared rather well since the rails went up in 1994, as the survivng telegraph poles show. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:55:24 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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The March Of The Telegraph Poles |
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Standing on the south side of the former grade crossing on Mendota Heights Road, you can see how the telegraph poles march up the right-of-way and across 494 in the right background. Aircraft coming into land at Minneapolis/St. Paul International seems a fitting irony since airborne commerce put a severe crimp in the railroads resulting in scenes like this. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:05:26 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Only Ballast And Weeds Left |
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Only weeds remain in place of ties and track on the ballast left on the former Milwaukee Road bridge over 494. We are looking across from the south side on the grounds of the Mendota Heights Business Park. Note the old telegraph pole to the left. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:12:45 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Looking Towards The Valley |
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Across Mendota Heights Road in the distance, the I and M division of the Milwaukee Road curved down into the valley where the Minnesota River meets the Old Man. Today it apparently is consumed by weeds from south of this road to where a rail trail begins on the line. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:17:12 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Milwaukee Road Leftovers |
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This can be found on the south side of the former Mendota Heights Road grade crossing. What was this stuff for exactly? |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:41:12 PM |
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Mendota Heights, MN |
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I Must Be Dreaming |
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What 007 once said to a certain Bond Girl also applies to the front yard of the Mendota Heights Office Park: the old Milwaukee Road I & M right-of-way is out front, complete with telegraph poles! Thank goodness the salvagers who tore this up in 1994 did such a sloppy job! |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/19/2011 9:02:05 AM |
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Mendota Heights, MN |
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North Western Reminder |
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A CN&W sign remains at Hoffman Avenue yard. Wonder if this went up as soon as the CGW was merged in 1968? |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:21:52 PM |
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Saint Paul, MN |
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No More Calls To Answer |
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Next door to the partly dismantled tracks north of the 35E bridge is this telephone box remaining on one of the poles. Today, motorists whiz by and planes fly over blase to the whole sad spectacle of lost rails. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:53:12 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Dismantled But Good |
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In 1994, the line was abandoned from Cliff Junction up to just across Eagandale Blvd. The I and M remained intact as a tail track with switches from then until some recent date where it was torn out from Eagandale Blvd to the 35E bridge, with much left to rust such as these materials. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:18:24 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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The Wires Hum No More |
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The wires that used to hum with Morse code and later human voices now sits silent along the I and M from south of Eagandale Blvd to the 35E bridge and resumption of track. We are between those points in this picture. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:41:43 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Snip! |
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The telegraph wires extend up from the 35E bridge past the end of track to the former crossing on Eagandale Blvd, where they finally cease. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:57:00 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Telephone Box And Battery Case |
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On the south side of the ex-MILW bridge over 494, lo and behold: a telephone box and a battery case for, presumably, the long-vanished signals at the next grade crossing to the south. Still here after the most rugged chunk of the I & M division went up in 1994. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/16/2011 6:49:49 AM |
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Eagan, MN |
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The Wiped Out Industry Track |
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After being trimmed back from Cliff Junction to here in 1994, between Eagandale Blvd and the 35E bridge considerable trackage remained as part of an industry tail track. Fairly recently, however, this too has fallen to the scrapper. What is going on here?! |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:35:45 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Sweet Soo! |
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A Soo Line reminder remains on a crossbuck at the Return Place grade crossing on the Ford Branch. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:59:58 PM |
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Saint Paul, MN |
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Wiped Out Tail Track |
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This area was used as a tail track after the line was abandoned north of I-494. Today, the tail track portion is mangled and gone starting at the north end of the 35E bridge. Why, I do not know. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 1:40:48 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Pole On The South End |
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This unique telegraph pole on the south side of the former MILW 494 bridge and a surviving sibling on the north end of the span strung the telegraph pole wires across the busy freeway, wires now long gone. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 7:54:10 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Big I And M's No More |
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Once upon a time the Big (and Little) I & M trains crossed Eagandale Blvd here. But when the Soo Line took over only the local job soon ran, and in 1994 Soo parent Canadian Pacific threw in the towel on the line from here to Cliff Junction supposedly on account of the steep grades out of the river valley. What a shame. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:26:59 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Trash And Tie Plates |
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Just north of the Eagandale Blvd crossing can be found tie plates attached to sunken ties garnished this day by an old piece of garbage. Oh for the days when these plates held rails and supported snorting orange and black diesels! |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:35:18 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Old Tie Thrown Aside |
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I can just see the scene now as the rails are going up in 1994: "Hey Bud! Where should I put this tie?" "Just dump it there, Nick. Who cares about one tie." However it got there, today it remains just north of the Eagandale Blvd crossing as a monument to the I and M division of the Milwaukee Road. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:52:49 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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More Ties And Ballast?! |
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Yet more ties and ballast on the I and M division grade. These are on the stretch between the south end of the 494 bridge and Eagandale Blvd. What a lousy job those guys did back in 1994! It's almost like the line is awaiting being rebuilt. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:26:33 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Ties And Ballast?! |
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Along the I and M grade from between Mendota Heights Road and the entrance to the Mendota Heights Business Park can be found old ties and ballast still in the grade, albiet very sunken by now over seventeen years after the rails went up in 1994. |
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10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/21/2011 8:07:01 PM |
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Eagan, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Bereft Depot |
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Once two lines passed by this depot. Now only ballast from one remains as the line abjectly awaits becoming yet another rail trail. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:48:51 PM |
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Chaska, MN |
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Richard Held |
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