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Tony Held's Collection
 
5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Minnesota Commercial
Model:GE B30-7Built As:SLSF 866 (B30-7)
Serial Number:41652Order No:1428
Frame Number:Built:12/1977
Notes:Ex-SLSF 866
Other locos with this serial:  SLSF 866(B30-7) NREX 5488(B30-7) MNNR 88(B30-7) BN 5488(B30-7)
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Making Them Take Flight In Haste
Title:  Making Them Take Flight In Haste
Description:  The crew nursing the yard power down to the Amtrak depot on a switch move causes a flock of birds nestled on the tracks to take flight on their approach.
Photo Date:  8/25/2012  Upload Date: 8/26/2012 2:25:45 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
Reversing By The Platforms
Title:  Reversing By The Platforms
Description:  The crew switching the MNNR yard reverse up past the platforms of the Amtrak depot beneath grey skies on the last Saturday in August of 2012.
Photo Date:  8/25/2012  Upload Date: 8/26/2012 2:26:00 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR T-3(Yard Slug) MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
MNNR Yard Power
Title:  MNNR Yard Power
Description:  The MNNR yard power makes a nice subject stopped beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:18:31 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR T-3(Yard Slug) MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
Yard Goats Under The Bridge
Title:  Yard Goats Under The Bridge
Description:  Here we have the MNNR Midway yard goats stopped beneath the Raymond Avenue bridge on a breezy, sunny Easter 2013. Today warranted breaking out one of their yard slugs.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 1:51:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
By The Track Scale
Title:  By The Track Scale
Description:  I took another view of this MNNR trio, working the State of Minnesota's Master Track Scale into the composition.
Photo Date:  5/18/2015  Upload Date: 5/18/2015 7:52:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR T-3(Yard Slug) MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR 54(B30-7)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Yard And Hiawatha Power
Title:  Yard And Hiawatha Power
Description:  I had caught the 54 working the Hiawatha Switching District earlier in the day. The crew then returned to the roundhouse and parked their ex-Frisco steed by the power MNNR likes to give to yard duties.
Photo Date:  5/18/2015  Upload Date: 5/18/2015 7:52:34 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 54(B30-7) MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  368   Comments: 0
Resting By The Track Scale
Title:  Resting By The Track Scale
Description:  A GE and a former GE turned yard slug rest near the State of Minnesota scale house as the sun rises in the eastern sky on a chilly Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  9/12/2015  Upload Date: 9/15/2015 12:23:40 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-2(Yard Slug)
Views:  253   Comments: 1
One Of My Usual Suspects
Title:  One Of My Usual Suspects
Description:  A portrait of one of my usual suspects, the Commercial's 88. Here she is resting beneath gray April skies at the Commercial's roundhouse.
Photo Date:  4/2/2017  Upload Date: 4/2/2017 8:03:56 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  78   Comments: 0
Slug And Companion
Title:  Slug And Companion
Description:  T-3 and companion 88 rest at the roundhouse early on a rainy Sunday morning.
Photo Date:  6/30/2019  Upload Date: 7/2/2019 11:08:13 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  96   Comments: 2
88 And T-3
Title:  88 And T-3
Description:  MNNR 88 and slug unit T-3 sit down near the roundhouse late on the afternoon of National Train Day 2021.
Photo Date:  5/8/2021  Upload Date: 5/8/2021 9:48:00 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR T-3(Yard Slug)
Views:  97   Comments: 0
Resting Beneath Restless Skies
Title:  Resting Beneath Restless Skies
Description:  MNNR 88 and 87 rest beneath skies that had turned restless by the noon hour on the second Sunday of July '22.
Photo Date:  7/10/2022  Upload Date: 7/27/2022 10:56:18 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MNNR 88(B30-7) MNNR 87(B39-8E)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
Alco!
Title:  Alco!
Description:  Minnesota Commercial 316 sits at the end of a string of stored units parked in the north end of the Commercial's yard early on a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/11/2023 8:58:32 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 316(RS27) MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  66   Comments: 0
Stored Units
Title:  Stored Units
Description:  Minneaota Commercial sits at the south end of a string of stored units in the north end of the Commercial's yard on a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/18/2023  Upload Date: 3/11/2023 8:57:53 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  MNNR 316(RS27) MNNR 88(B30-7)
Views:  84   Comments: 0


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