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Tony Held's Collection
 
2/5/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Progressive Rail, Inc
Model:EMD SW1500Built As:KIT 74 (SW1500)
Serial Number:36863Order No:7286
Frame Number:7286-3Built:3/1971
Notes:nee KIT 74
Other locos with this serial:  PGR 74(SW1500) SOU 74(SW1500) KIT 74(SW1500)
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CGW Yard And Depot
Title:  CGW Yard And Depot
Description:  Here is the former CGW yard and depot as they look today. Note the PGR 74 in the left center background.
Photo Date:  4/3/2015  Upload Date: 4/9/2015 8:30:50 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Station,Track
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
From the CGW to PGR
Title:  From the CGW to PGR
Description:  Randolph has gonk from the Chicago Great Western to Progressive Rail. May PGR continue to grow and expand its operations here -- up to and including having to rebuild some of the old CGW main north of town.
Photo Date:  4/3/2015  Upload Date: 4/3/2015 10:58:43 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  239   Comments: 1
I Knew They Would Have One Of These Here
Title:  I Knew They Would Have One Of These Here
Description:  I had a hunch Progressive Rail would be stationing a locomotive at Randolph. I was proved correct. I wav delighted to find it was one of their original units.
Photo Date:  4/3/2015  Upload Date: 4/3/2015 10:58:08 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
PGR 74
Title:  PGR 74
Description:  Progressive Rail 74 rests at the Randolph yard on a remarkably mild and sunny Saturday morning in late January.
Photo Date:  1/30/2016  Upload Date: 1/30/2016 7:59:27 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
Randolph Yard
Title:  Randolph Yard
Description:  Here we are looking north into the remaining portion of the Chicago Great Western's Randolph yard, now operated by Progressive Rail along with the Northfield-Cannon Falls line.
Photo Date:  1/30/2016  Upload Date: 1/30/2016 7:59:55 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
Loco And Caboose
Title:  Loco And Caboose
Description:  PGR 74 and 101 sit up near the grain elevator at the north end of the yard on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/7/2022  Upload Date: 8/13/2022 11:50:43 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Clean And Classy
Title:  Clean And Classy
Description:  PGR 74 looks clean and classy on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/7/2022  Upload Date: 8/13/2022 11:52:31 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Up By The Elevator
Title:  Up By The Elevator
Description:  Progressive Rail's longtime denezin of Randolph sits up by the elevator on a quiet, cloidy Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/7/2022  Upload Date: 8/13/2022 11:50:13 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
Quiet Yard On A Sunday Afternoon
Title:  Quiet Yard On A Sunday Afternoon
Description:  All was quiet at the former Chicago Great Western yard in Randolph on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2023. The yard is now half the size it once was, but that hasn't impeded current operator Progressive Rail any in breathing new life into this spot on the old Great Western.
Photo Date:  5/28/2023  Upload Date: 7/11/2023 8:22:11 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 74(SW1500)
Views:  126   Comments: 0


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