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Here We Are! |
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As the fall color trip rolls across Main Street, the old Milwaukee Road freight house and depot beckon in the distance. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:14:51 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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The Railroaders |
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Right smack in the center of this photo is my friend Brandon, a Friends of the 261 volunteer. Right now he, the head conductor, and other crew are preparing to board passengers for the Winona-LaCrescent part of the trip. This is one of my rare shots of railroaders at work. By the way, Brandon has a jim dandy video group on youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Conductor261 where he posts videos he has taken of trains and trips like this one. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:24:02 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Rounding The Curve Into Downtown |
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Finally got a shot of the 156 on a curve as we swung into downtown Red Wing on the fall color trip to Winona. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/10/2011 2:35:59 PM |
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Red Wing, MN |
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Richard Held |
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AMTK 156(P42DC) |
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| Title: |
Uh Oh |
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These two signs were affixed to the ex-Milwaukee Road Winona freight house the day I came to town on the fall color trip. Hope somebody buys and actually rennovates the place. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:55:20 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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| Title: |
Streaking By |
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A southbound CP coal train with BNSF power (including the DPU) shoots past the Winona depot as people await the return of the side fall color trip to LaCrescent. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/17/2011 5:29:42 PM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Hallowed Logo And Vandal Art |
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The hallowed Milwaukee Road logo remains intact on the east side of the Winona freight house, providing a colorful contrast to the inevitable vandal art the building also sports courtesy of local youths. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:45:48 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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| Title: |
Still Around 40 years Later |
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This vintage Amtrak sign remains standing by the Winona depot 40 years after the "pointless arrow" logo was created. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 9:25:03 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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| Title: |
Waiting For The Train |
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The Minneapolis to Winona passengers congregate at the Winona depot awaiting the return of the train from its LaCrescent run. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/12/2011 10:11:21 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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| Title: |
SOO 4423 |
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Roster view. Came out a bit funky while editing. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 10:18:16 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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SOO 4423(GP38-2) |
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SOO 4439 |
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Roster view. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 10:18:39 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Time Warp! |
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The fall color trip to LaCrescent crosses Franklin Avenue on its way south as fans and citizens look on. I swear, despite the modern buildings and cars, this photo could have been taken in 1953, not 2011! |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/14/2011 5:06:25 PM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
SOO 65 |
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Roster shot of this Soo hack tacked on behind a couple covered hoppers and a pair of SOO GP38-2s in the trackage by the Winona depot. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:41:49 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Soo Line! |
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These Soo beauties were parked on the trackage near the Winona depot as the fall color trip from Minneapolis pulled in. In fact, this shot was taken from the train. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 10:17:51 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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SOO 4423(GP38-2) SOO 4439(GP38-2) |
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| Title: |
Sign Still Says It All |
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A view of the south side of the Winona freight house. Note the obscured Milwaukee Road log above the words "freight house." |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 8:46:13 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Still Serves Passengers |
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Unlike many depots 40 years previous, the Milwaukee Road depot in Winona did not shut its doors but kept on serving passengers. Today it was chock full of 'em thanks to the fall color trip from Minneapolis. Note the pretty tree to the right, the best foilage my camera captured on the trip. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 9:26:01 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Weathered But Still Standing |
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Except for the obvious modern sliding door, the old Milwaukee Road freight house next to the depot still looks like it did in the days of steam. Note the red brick pavers in the foreground, another blast from the past. |
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10/9/2011 Upload Date: 10/13/2011 9:27:07 AM |
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Winona, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
CBQ 14534 |
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This wooden hack and some kind of boxcar is on the eastern edge of the GSRM property alongside the farm field that seperates where the two displays are on the south and north sides. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:34:59 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Boneyard |
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Except for the Soo hack at left, I can't identify which cars these are in the GSRM's collection. All could use work badly, though; looks more like a boneyard than a museum here. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:35:17 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Milwaukee Road Relic |
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The GSRM's flanger with their ex-Milwaukee Road line inspection car behind it. We're on the south side of the property next to Berg's Countryside motel off County 21 |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:35:34 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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But All You Get Is A Busy Signal |
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The sign on the southern end of the GSRM plot that faces County 21. I tried the number several times; one ring and a busy signal is all I got. What gives? |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:55:58 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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| Title: |
The Kilkenny Building |
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This RR structure is being modified to look like a depot for a piece of equipment to be displayed at. It, the GSRM's Milwaukee Road caboose and a wooden coach that used to be a house are at the northern end of the property. All the rest is on the side close to Breg's Countryside motel off 21 here. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:35:59 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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| Title: |
MILW 992147 |
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Roster view of this unit on the north side of the Gopher State Railway museum grounds. Note the brand-new picnic tables set right next to it. Glad I wore one of my new Milwaukee Road shirts this day! |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 6:51:31 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
The Tootin' Louie Depot |
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This classy depot not only remains next to the former Minneapolis and St. Louis main line just north of Main Street, it still is used by a railroad, now on its third owner, Union Pacific. Note the ice cooler in the right background in front of the depot and the dumpster on the left. Sure gives it a "lived-in" look. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 6:46:24 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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| Title: |
Roofed Passenger Car?! |
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Actually, this wood coach gem is awaiting restoration as a railroad car after being used as a home for a long while. It is off to one side of the Kilkenny building and Milwaukee Road bay window caboose on the north side of the GSRM property. Note the ex-Minneapolis and St. Louis main line to the right. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:36:53 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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N.S.P. (Motive) Power |
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The Gopher State Railway Museum's SW1 rests under clear, sunny skies at the New Prague location after being moved from the now-trackless United Sugars plant in Chaska. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:25:58 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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NSPX 4(SW1) |
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| Title: |
Switch And Something To Clear The Snow With |
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A broom stands placed thoughtfully near the first switch on the south side of the Main Street crossing in anticipation of cleaning off winter's snow if needed. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 6:46:02 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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| Title: |
Stuck The Old Neck Out For This One |
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I had to sneak down to get this shot of the 1498 by the downtown New Prague grain elevator as it wasn't up by the depot like I'd hoped. I admit I stuck my neck out but I got away with it. Oddly enough, a derailer was set up ahead of the unit! What for I have no clue. |
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10/22/2011 Upload Date: 10/22/2011 9:56:23 PM |
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New Prague, MN |
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Richard Held |
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UP 1498(GP40M-2) |
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| Title: |
What's Left Of The CGW Main |
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A small portion of the Chicago Great Western main was retained so a business could keep rail service. Track in right foreground leads up to a Quonset hut-type building erected around a CNW passenger car being restored near the former CGW depot. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/5/2012 11:35:05 PM |
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Dodge Center, MN |
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| Title: |
Blocked Cars By Cooke Park |
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The CP/DM&E (never thought I'd have to call it that in my wildest dreams) "blocks" cars on sidings on the western side of Rochester. Here is a glimpse from down by J.R. Cooke park. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 2:51:43 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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| Title: |
A Closer Look |
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A closer look at the fragment of CGW main intact on the south side of the DM&E. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/5/2012 11:36:27 PM |
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Dodge Center, MN |
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"Do Not Stop On Tracks" |
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The sage advice of the sign to the right was ignored by the SUV on the left during the wait at the stoplight at Broadway and Civic Center. How do those fools survive ... Grade crossing here is the ex-CNW Winona to Rapid City line, crossing in distance is former Chicago Great Western trackage reduced to a spur to the south side thanks to not even nearby Stewartville being served by old CGW rails anymore. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 11:25:39 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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| Title: |
MOW Stuff In The Snow |
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A portrait of the Canadian Pacifc MOW equipment at the Rochester yard office taken during a snow squall. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 8:34:05 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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| Title: |
Rickety Link To the Outside World |
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The south connection track to the CGW main was retained as access to the fragment of main line kept to serve a business on the south side of Dodge Center. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/5/2012 11:36:51 PM |
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Dodge Center, MN |
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"No Trespassing" ... In Theory |
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Sign on the left works only in theory along the CP/DM&E in Rochester; I once "trespassed" alot here during an extended stay in town back in 2001. We are looking east towards the yard office (out of view in the right background), support building, and MOW vehicles are parked. Track curling off to the right is ex-CGW which once went all the way into Iowa but now only goes to the south side of town. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 1:56:49 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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Still Says "DM&E" |
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A Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern sign can still be found on the south side of the Rochester office several years after the CP takeover. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 8:41:56 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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| Title: |
Station Sign |
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A portrait of the Rochester station sign captured amist a snow shower. Note the bridge over the Zumbro river in the center background. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 1:57:46 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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Yard Office |
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West side of the building. Note the MOW equipment in the left background as well as the start of the remaining stub of the CGW line that once went to Stewartville and all the way to Iowa but now only goes to the south side of town. |
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3/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/4/2012 8:35:18 PM |
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Rochester, MN |
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This Must Be It |
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No mistaking what the Big Lake station sign denotes. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:30:45 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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"You Are Here" |
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Need to know downtown Big Lake but never been there? If you come by train there is this map with all the info a visitor needs. The red star in the bottom right corner marks -you guessed it- "You are here." |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:30:59 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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| Title: |
MNRX 707 |
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Roster view of this bi-level. I rode in this car from Anoka to Big Lake. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 7:11:49 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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MNRX 711 |
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Roster view of this bi-level. I rode in it from Big Lake to Anoka. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 7:08:57 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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MNRX 603 |
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Roster view of the cab car on the Northstar train I rode from Anoka to Big Lake and return. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 7:08:43 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Train And Sign |
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Couldn't resist composing a picture that had the "City Of Big Lake" sign and the Northstar train init. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:31:17 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Clear Signals South! |
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A head-on view of the Northstar commuter train at Big Lake station with the red over green "clear" signal to the south; departure time is 23 minutes away in this shot. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:46:47 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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MNRX 501 |
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Roster view; at Big Lake. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 4/1/2012 7:36:45 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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MNRX 504 |
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Roster view; at Big Lake |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 4/1/2012 7:36:22 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Richard Held |
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Train And Station |
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A portrait of the Northstar commuter train and the platform at Big Lake station; note the decorative sculpture of geese in flight in the right background. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:47:03 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Richard Held |
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MNRX 504(MP36PH-3C) MNRX 501(MP36PH-3C) |
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Nice Touch |
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Bronze geese in flight decorate the parking lot side of the Big Lake depot. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 6:57:47 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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Signal And Shops |
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The Northstar Commuter shops and the lights of the southbound main signal. We are at the very end of double-track here, one of the reasons the line doesn't yet go all the way to St. Cloud; no bongo-bucks for rebuilding the double-track from Big Lake to St. Cloud. |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 7:00:52 PM |
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Big Lake, MN |
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| Title: |
No Kidding |
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"To all trains" the sign in the right foreground says. Well no kidding ... |
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3/31/2012 Upload Date: 3/31/2012 7:01:16 PM |
| Location: |
Big Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
MNRX 501(MP36PH-3C) |
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