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Waiting As The Snow Starts
Title:  Waiting As The Snow Starts
Description:  The first flurries of a spring snowstorm were falling when I snapped this portrait of an eastbmund freight waiting on the siding on down by the County 15/Highway 12 bridge.
Photo Date:  3/22/2015  Upload Date: 3/22/2015 9:55:27 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5331(C44-9W) BNSF 9680(SD70MAC)
Views:  410   Comments: 1
Memories Of The Burlington Northern
Title:  Memories Of The Burlington Northern
Description:  Who would have guessed units like ex-BN 9701 would be the Burlington Northern's pinnacle of motive power, a last hurrah before that mega merger pioneer passed itself into the pages of history via a mega merger? 9701's BN logos are now gone, replaced by "swoosh" logos below the cab windows and zilch on the nose, but her paint still echos BN's last hours of glory.
Photo Date:  5/20/2018  Upload Date: 5/20/2018 10:30:24 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 9701(SD70MAC)
Views:  477   Comments: 1
Colorful Mix
Title:  Colorful Mix
Description:  An eastbound grain train recedes into the distance, revealing again this colorful mix of units on the head end of an eastbound general freight on the Wayzata siding.
Photo Date:  5/20/2018  Upload Date: 5/20/2018 8:37:09 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9701(SD70MAC) BNSF 2842(GP39-2) BNSF 5127(C44-9W) BNSF 7405(ES44DC)
Views:  485   Comments: 1
Last Two Units
Title:  Last Two Units
Description:  Last two of four units on the head end of an eastbound general freight I found in the siding, pulled almost all the way down to the grade crossing on downtown Wayzata's west side.
Photo Date:  5/20/2018  Upload Date: 5/20/2018 10:23:28 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2842(GP39-2) BNSF 9701(SD70MAC)
Views:  432   Comments: 1
Pumpkins And Blue Sky
Title:  Pumpkins And Blue Sky
Description:  My pal Andy and I found these two units sitting down by the Willmar depot with a train in tow on the postcard-worthy Saturday of Halloween weekend 2022.
Photo Date:  10/29/2022  Upload Date: 10/30/2022 10:38:21 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 7289(ES44DC) BNSF 9718(SD70MAC)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Dig That "Chili MAC"
Title:  Dig That "Chili MAC"
Description:  The 9718 was the prize of the two for me and my friend Andy. I remember when those babies were brand-new. Now they are veterans of many years of service. Units were on the point of a train parked at the Willmar depot this day.
Photo Date:  10/29/2022  Upload Date: 10/30/2022 10:38:44 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9718(SD70MAC) BNSF 7289(ES44DC)
Views:  385   Comments: 0
BNSF 9719
Title:  BNSF 9719
Description:  This veteran BNSF unit was the third iron horse at the disposal of the crew aboard a stopped eastbound grain train pulling out of Wayzata after being delayed by track work.
Photo Date:  7/30/2015  Upload Date: 7/31/2015 12:18:11 AM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9719(SD70MAC)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
Eclectic Lashup
Title:  Eclectic Lashup
Description:  While some of these units were just along for the ride, the lashup on the head end of this eastbound mixed freight that got stoppbd in Long Lake sure was eclectic, containing three "oldies but goodies."
Photo Date:  3/21/2015  Upload Date: 3/21/2015 8:11:04 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GECX 2026(ET44AC) BNSF 4075(C44-9W) BNSF 9728(SD70MAC) BNSF 1964(SD40-2) BNSF 1899(SD40-2)
Views:  1097   Comments: 1
Far From The Paynesville Sub
Title:  Far From The Paynesville Sub
Description:  A pair of CP ES44's is the first of five units at the disposal of the crew of this empty westbound coal train. The lead units of the lashup running on rails well to the south of their usual haunts on the Paynesville Sub.
Photo Date:  5/5/2009  Upload Date: 5/5/2009 6:39:26 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8778(ES44AC) BNSF 9369(SD70ACe) BNSF 9885(SD70MAC) BNSF 9731(SD70MAC)
Views:  1109   Comments: 1
GE's and EMD's
Title:  GE's and EMD's
Description:  Two GE's and three EMD's are the impressive lashup about to split the signals at the West Wayzata end of the siding stretching from western Wayzata to eastern Long Lake on the BNSF Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  5/5/2009  Upload Date: 5/5/2009 6:40:06 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9885(SD70MAC) BNSF 9369(SD70ACe) CP 8778(ES44AC) BNSF 9731(SD70MAC)
Views:  1072   Comments: 0
Long shot!
Title:  Long shot!
Description:  This eastbound ethanol (?) job that took the Wayzata siding did not pull as far down into western Wayzata as I had hoped. A long shot did the trick, though! The old Grinstien Green-wearing SD70MAC has a NS unit tacked on behind it.
Photo Date:  5/8/2013  Upload Date: 5/8/2013 4:13:47 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9774(SD70MAC)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
Waiting By Orchard
Title:  Waiting By Orchard
Description:  An eastbound freight waits by Orchard Lane in Long Lake for a clear signal into town on a remarkably beautiful December afternoon. One of the perks of living right by the tracks is being able to get shots like these, man.
Photo Date:  12/14/2018  Upload Date: 12/14/2018 10:29:47 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7570(ES44DC) BNSF 9787(SD70MAC) BNSF 5325(C44-9W)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
Gondola Train
Title:  Gondola Train
Description:  An eastbound freight made up entirely of gondolas with the reporting mark "MGPX" rolls past the Fridley Northstar station on a summer-like late September afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/28/2014  Upload Date: 9/30/2014 7:41:46 AM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9809(SD70MAC) BNSF 4856(C44-9W)
Views:  1195   Comments: 1
Grinstein Green!
Title:  Grinstein Green!
Description:  A few units clad in Grinstein Green can be found parked at Northtown. Among these is the 9809.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:29:22 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9809(SD70MAC)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
In The Nick Of Time
Title:  In The Nick Of Time
Description:  Coming home to my humble abode, I saw the west signal for the main track was green. I got my camera, and hustled for the pedestrian bridge over the BNSF/Highway 12 corridor that has long been a favorite train catching spot. As I got onto the bridge, I saw this eastbound freight coming and got this picture in the nick of time.
Photo Date:  5/17/2018  Upload Date: 5/17/2018 2:49:08 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5748(ES44AC) BNSF 9811(SD70MAC) BNSF 5395(C44-9W)
Views:  228   Comments: 1
Racing East
Title:  Racing East
Description:  An eastbound BNSF general freight races east through Long Lake on a balmy, partly sunny May afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/17/2018  Upload Date: 5/17/2018 2:49:28 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5395(C44-9W) BNSF 9811(SD70MAC) BNSF 5748(ES44AC)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
Westbound On A Breezy Evening
Title:  Westbound On A Breezy Evening
Description:  A westbound general freight rumbles into Long Lake on a mild, breezy Friday evening in July.
Photo Date:  7/18/2014  Upload Date: 7/18/2014 10:12:26 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9832(SD70MAC)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
A Taste of Grinstien Green
Title:  A Taste of Grinstien Green
Description:  Here comes SD70MAC 9836 decked out in the modified Grinstien Green which debued in 1996 along with the BNSF-Warbonnet paint job. She is on the point of a westbound unit coal train swinging down the nroth leg of the wye at Minneapolis Junction heading onto the BNSF Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/16/2007 9:11:56 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9836(SD70MAC)
Views:  872   Comments: 0
Nice Touch
Title:  Nice Touch
Description:  A BNSF-ized Grinstein Green unit was third of five units on an eastbound freight that was briefly stopped in Long Lake. I remember when these babies were brand new. How time rolls as fast as the "Hiawatha."
Photo Date:  4/16/2020  Upload Date: 4/16/2020 4:03:03 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9836(SD70MAC) BNSF 7798(ES44DC)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
Movin' Out
Title:  Movin' Out
Description:  Cleared to proceed, the engineer on an eastbound BNSF freight eases the train back into motion after being briefly stopped in Long Lake by the BNSF dispatcher.
Photo Date:  4/16/2020  Upload Date: 4/16/2020 4:04:05 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 3141(GP50) BNSF 7798(ES44DC) BNSF 9836(SD70MAC) BNSF 5637(AC44CW) BNSF 9136(SD70ACe)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
A MAC Where The Caboose Used To Go
Title:  A MAC Where The Caboose Used To Go
Description:  Bringing up the rear of an eastbound coal train rolling through Long Lake on the Wayzata sub is this SD70MAC.
Photo Date:  6/27/2008  Upload Date: 6/27/2008 2:20:56 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9841(SD70MAC)
Views:  540   Comments: 1
New Paint But Still Parked
Title:  New Paint But Still Parked
Description:  This baby sports new paint but she still was parked, basking under the late afternoon sun at Northtown on a Saturday in mid-February..
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:00:26 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9846(SD70MAC)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Fairly Fresh Pain
Title:  Fairly Fresh Pain
Description:  A veteran MAC in fairly fresh paint with the current "swoosh" logo on its long hood sits in a string of stored units at Norhtown beneath mild May skies.
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 5/24/2023 9:18:15 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9846(SD70MAC)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Coal Power
Title:  Coal Power
Description:  A GE and EMD on the point of a loaded eastbound coal train sit witj their engines idle after meeting an empty westbound coal job. In a few minutes the hogger will bring them alive and depart as soon as the track warrant arrives. I had no time to wait to see this, and catch the DPU on the back, because I had pizza to get home!
Photo Date:  10/22/2011  Upload Date: 10/22/2011 10:02:33 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Hhld
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5817(ES44AC) BNSF 9854(SD70MAC)
Views:  833   Comments: 1
Intermodal At Midway
Title:  Intermodal At Midway
Description:  The crew of this eastbound intermodal, recently in at Midway, starts the process of sorting out their train beneath (finally!) mild April skies.
Photo Date:  4/21/2018  Upload Date: 4/21/2018 7:01:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7437(ES44DC) BNSF 9870(SD70MAC) BNSF 4590(C44-9W)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
Waiting For The Surge
Title:  Waiting For The Surge
Description:  BNSF 9874 is one of many units waiting for a surge of traffic to seem them removed from storage at Northtown and return to the rails. For the moment, all the 9874 and her fellow stored units can do is soak up the sun.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:30:02 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9874(SD70MAC)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Eastbound Black Diamonds
Title:  Eastbound Black Diamonds
Description:  Rolling east with an eastbound unit coal train this day is BNSF SD70MAC 9882.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/10/2007 7:15:56 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9882(SD70MAC)
Views:  956   Comments: 0
Another Meet At Wayzata
Title:  Another Meet At Wayzata
Description:  The crew aboard this eastbound BNSF freight is getting ready for another meet at Wayzata as their train takes the siding.
Photo Date:  3/4/2015  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 12:39:33 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9888(SD70MAC) CSX 7704(C40-8W) CSX 7896(C40-8W) UP 6015(AC44CWCTE) UP 6478(AC44CW)
Views:  651   Comments: 1
Five Unit Lashup!
Title:  Five Unit Lashup!
Description:  This awesome lash up was on the point of a unit covered hopper train taking the siding for a meet with a westbound.
Photo Date:  3/4/2015  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 12:15:28 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6478(AC44CW) UP 6015(AC44CWCTE) CSX 7896(C40-8W) CSX 7704(C40-8W) BNSF 9888(SD70MAC)
Views:  721   Comments: 0
Railroading In Winter
Title:  Railroading In Winter
Description:  This eastbound unit covered hopper job taking the siding late on a chilly Wednesday afternoon in early March made for a fine portrait of railroading in winter.
Photo Date:  3/4/2015  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 12:38:35 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6478(AC44CW) UP 6015(AC44CWCTE) CSX 7896(C40-8W) CSX 7704(C40-8W) BNSF 9888(SD70MAC)
Views:  721   Comments: 1
Veteran Unit
Title:  Veteran Unit
Description:  9888 dates back to the early years of the BNSF. This day, the engine was parked north of the diesel shop at Northtown, basking in the late spring sun.
Photo Date:  3/27/2020  Upload Date: 3/30/2020 8:56:44 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9888(SD70MAC)
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Waitin' At West Wayzata
Title:  Waitin' At West Wayzata
Description:  I don't know why the Long Lake end of the siding between Wayzata and here on the Wayzata sub is named "West Wayzata." It is here that the crew of this westbound empty coal train waits aboard their charges for an eastbound to clear.
Photo Date:  5/15/2009  Upload Date: 5/15/2009 6:32:39 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9346(SD70ACe) BNSF 9899(SD70MAC)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
Headin' For The Rain
Title:  Headin' For The Rain
Description:  The westbound coal train departs. Soon, the crew will have to turn the wiper blades of the 9346 on when they encounter a band of rain showers that was approaching Long Lake when I snapped this picture.
Photo Date:  5/15/2009  Upload Date: 5/15/2009 6:33:09 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9346(SD70ACe) BNSF 9899(SD70MAC)
Views:  716   Comments: 0
Mexican Standoff
Title:  Mexican Standoff
Description:  A westbound BNSF (empty) unit coal train waits at "West Wayzata" for an eastbound blocked by red signals to clear. Another eastbound had been waiting on the main track for the coal train and had just cleared by the time I arrived. Sadly, as I was heading down to catch the eastbound, it started up. And I missed it by a hairs breath.
Photo Date:  5/15/2009  Upload Date: 5/15/2009 6:25:57 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9346(SD70ACe) BNSF 9899(SD70MAC)
Views:  686   Comments: 0
So Many Parked MACs
Title:  So Many Parked MACs
Description:  So many SD70MACs can now be found parked at Northtown, like the 9907, awaiting a surge of traffic that will see them return to service.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:31:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9907(SD70MAC)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
More Diesels Than A Hobby Shop Display Case
Title:  More Diesels Than A Hobby Shop Display Case
Description:  More diesels than you can find in a hobby shop display case bask in a mild sun at Northtown Yard on a Wednesday afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/3/2023  Upload Date: 5/24/2023 10:28:22 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 2761(GP39E) BNSF 2003(GP38-2) BNSF 2832(GP39M) BNSF 1503(GP28M) BNSF 9988(SD70MAC) BNSF 9907(SD70MAC)
Views:  730   Comments: 0
And A "Chili Mac" On The DPU
Title:  And A "Chili Mac" On The DPU
Description:  A portrait of the DPU unit on an eastbound ore job as it finished parading by Bandana Square on Easter Sunday 2013
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/3/2013 4:24:05 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9918(SD70MAC)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
A MAC And A Trio Of Forty Twos
Title:  A MAC And A Trio Of Forty Twos
Description:  Here is a eastbound general freight rolling through Long Lake with SD70MAC 9920 on the point leading three SD40-2s: 6395 (still in modified BN paint) 6801 and 7165 on the point. They are splitting the signals at West Wayzata by the western end of the siding where meets frequently take place here in Long Lake on the Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  4/14/2007  Upload Date: 4/15/2007 6:45:09 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9920(SD70MAC)
Views:  627   Comments: 0
Train U TNDCXP1 26T With A Special Guest
Title:  Train U TNDCXP1 26T With A Special Guest
Description:  Train U TNDCXP1 26T --a unit oil job-- was stopped by the dispatcher while passing through Long Lake while on its way east. Leading the three units was a celebrity unit--the Norfolk Southern Lackawanna Heritage unit! At last I finally made my first NS Heritage unit catch. I wonder if the motorists on U.S. 12 noted it? (Note: I had hoped to get a photo of the front of the engine, but I had a pressing errand I had to do in Wayzata--I heard a train go through Wayzata during my errand run and when I came back to Long Lake, I saw this train had gone. I still got a decent shot, though.)
Photo Date:  7/27/2015  Upload Date: 7/27/2015 9:43:00 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4024(C44-9W) BNSF 9925(SD70MAC) NS 1074(SD70ACe)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
Bringing Up The Rear
Title:  Bringing Up The Rear
Description:  An SD70MAC in faded Heritage II colors brings up the rear on an eastbound coal train.
Photo Date:  6/21/2008  Upload Date: 6/21/2008 5:48:41 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9932(SD70MAC)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
On The Move Again
Title:  On The Move Again
Description:  The DPU of a unit gondola train (all the cars of which bore the reporting mark "MGPX") passes Fridley station as the hogger gets the train moving again after waiting in the north throat of Northtown yard.
Photo Date:  9/28/2014  Upload Date: 10/1/2014 5:33:38 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9939(SD70MAC)
Views:  979   Comments: 0
Under The Parkway
Title:  Under The Parkway
Description:  Glowing in the late afternoon sun, BNSF 9988 quietly sits beneath St. Anthony Parkway, waiting out lean times that have seen it stored at Northtown.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:10:17 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9988(SD70MAC)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Coal And Water
Title:  Coal And Water
Description:  Here comes an eastbound (loaded) unit coal train with SD70 MAC 9991 on the point. Got the Long Lake water tower into the composition from my perch on the Brown Road bridge. Guess you can say we got coal and water here, now all we need is a steam engine...
Photo Date:  9/7/2007  Upload Date: 9/7/2007 9:24:31 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9991(SD70MAC)
Views:  622   Comments: 0

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