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7/1/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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I Want Two ES44AC's To Go, Please
Title:  I Want Two ES44AC's To Go, Please
Description:  Sure is nice to just drive up, shoot a pic, and then drive on.
Photo Date:  9/7/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 9:55:08 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8718(ES44AC) CP 8792(ES44AC)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
Here Comes The Prize
Title:  Here Comes The Prize
Description:  Thanks to a sighting report on HeritageUnits.com, I knew CSX's "Spirit of Mulberry" unit was eastbound on the Paynesville Sub. Sure enough, at about 2:18 P.M. on a gray, blustery March Wendesday afternoon, I made my own catch of this unit. The CSX celeb was trailing power on an eastbound grain train.
Photo Date:  3/16/2016  Upload Date: 3/16/2016 4:01:57 PM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8721(ES44AC) CSX 4685(SD70M)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
To Think That I Caught "The Spirit Of Mulberry" At Arrowhead Drive!
Title:  To Think That I Caught "The Spirit Of Mulberry" At Arrowhead Drive!
Description:  An eastbound grain train with a celebrity unit trailing the lead loco --CSX's "The Spirit of Mulberry"-- approaches Arrowhead Drive on a gray, blustery March afternoon.
Photo Date:  3/16/2016  Upload Date: 3/16/2016 4:00:59 PM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 4685(SD70M) CP 8721(ES44AC)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
Still More GEs
Title:  Still More GEs
Description:  The big railroads sure love GE these days.
Photo Date:  9/7/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 9:59:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8006(AC4400CWM) CP 8884(ES44AC) CP 8737(ES44AC)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
Paused On The Old Soo
Title:  Paused On The Old Soo
Description:  The Canadian Pacific crew on a westbound train pauses on the old Soo Line main just west of the Northtown bridge late on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 9:10:37 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8738(ES44AC)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
Westbound Grain
Title:  Westbound Grain
Description:  A westbound CP grain train rumbles down the main track at the east throat to Humboldt Yard.
Photo Date:  12/13/2014  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 9:29:46 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9538(AC44CW) CP 8742(ES44AC) NS 1124(SD70ACe)
Views:  640   Comments: 1
Roll By Inspection Time
Title:  Roll By Inspection Time
Description:  A CP employee gives a westbound grain train a roll by inspection as it thunders through Humboldt Yard beneath gloomy mid-December skies.
Photo Date:  12/13/2014  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 9:30:04 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NS 1124(SD70ACe) CP 8742(ES44AC) CP 9538(AC44CW)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
Eastbound About To Be Red-Lighted
Title:  Eastbound About To Be Red-Lighted
Description:  This eastbound CP intermodal train came to am abrupt halt for about ten minutes after the motive power passed Bandana Square. The crew must have got a red sigal further east.
Photo Date:  3/31/2013  Upload Date: 4/2/2013 2:59:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC) CP 8744(ES44AC)
Views:  728   Comments: 0
Accidentally Artistic
Title:  Accidentally Artistic
Description:  Fumbling with my camera while getting ready to take this "grab" shot of this eastbound CP ethanol train as it crossed Lyndale Avenue bound for Old Man River and points east, I wound up selecting the "incandescent" setting. Shot is not bad, come to think of it.
Photo Date:  8/12/2021  Upload Date: 8/12/2021 9:45:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8233(ES44C4) CP 8747(ES44AC)
Views:  348   Comments: 0
Headin' West
Title:  Headin' West
Description:  A westbound CP freight charges west with an ES44AC and an older AC44CW at the disposal of the crew today. The train is about to duck under Chesire Lane North.
Photo Date:  2/4/2013  Upload Date: 2/4/2013 10:52:43 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8758(ES44AC) CP 9814(AC44CW)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
Passing Underneath Chesire Lane North
Title:  Passing Underneath Chesire Lane North
Description:  A hard-charing westbound CP freight storms under the Chesire Lane North bridge over the CP Paynesville Sub as a school bus starts to cross headed south. Wonder if any of the kids were looking at the sight?
Photo Date:  2/4/2013  Upload Date: 2/4/2013 10:53:20 PM
Location:  Plymouth, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8758(ES44AC) CP 9814(AC44CW)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
Former Would-Be Merger Partners
Title:  Former Would-Be Merger Partners
Description:  A CP and NS unit are the motive power on an eastbound freight whose crew had paused in the middle of sorting out their cars into Humboldt down at the yard's eastern end. This portrait also captures how CP and NS were would-be merger partners this time last year. Thank God that merger did not come to pass.
Photo Date:  3/24/2017  Upload Date: 3/24/2017 7:18:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8773(ES44AC) NS 2587(SD70M)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
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:  1111   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:  1073   Comments: 0
CP 8786
Title:  CP 8786
Description:  Roster view of this new GE as it sits near the Pigs Eye diesel shop on a nice Saturday afternoon in early October.
Photo Date:  10/19/2011  Upload Date: 10/19/2011 8:43:31 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8786(ES44AC)
Views:  420   Comments: 1
Rumbling Past The Soccer Games
Title:  Rumbling Past The Soccer Games
Description:  An eastbound CP freight with a ES44AC and an older dash-nine whose number I didn't get for power rumbles by Bandana Square and the soccer games going on across the way at Como Park on a sunny Saturday evening in July.
Photo Date:  7/7/2012  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 5:23:07 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8804(ES44AC)
Views:  145   Comments: 0
First Of 2011!
Title:  First Of 2011!
Description:  My first catch of 2011 turned out to be this westbound freight crossing Pinto Drive as the hogger let 'em roll down the CP/Soo Paynesville sub beneath grey late winter skies. I was surprised to see the NS unit.
Photo Date:  3/11/2011  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 10:16:12 AM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8820(ES44AC) NS 9833(C40-9W) CP 9557(AC44CW) CP 8886(ES44AC)
Views:  842   Comments: 0
Away She Rolls
Title:  Away She Rolls
Description:  Up ahead lies Loretto, Rockford, and then on to Buffalo on old Soo rails. Pic was taken from near Pinto drive.
Photo Date:  3/11/2011  Upload Date: 3/12/2011 10:16:22 AM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9557(AC44CW) CP 8886(ES44AC) CP 8820(ES44AC) NS 9833(C40-9W)
Views:  762   Comments: 0
Watching Us Go By
Title:  Watching Us Go By
Description:  A crewmember stands by the lead of two GE's on point of a northbound CP job which took the siding for the southbound fall color trip. We actually are a few clicks north of Red Wing at either Blackbird or Duke sidings.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/13/2011 10:22:46 AM
Location:  Red Wing, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8821(ES44AC)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
Canadian Pacific!
Title:  Canadian Pacific!
Description:  These three units on the point of an eastbound freight just shouts the name of the road as it passes Bandana.
Photo Date:  8/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/14/2011 8:30:50 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9681(AC44CW) CP 8566(AC44CW) CP 8823(ES44AC)
Views:  764   Comments: 0
Pay Attention Kids
Title:  Pay Attention Kids
Description:  The two boys down to the right belonged to a total group of five or six I saw come up to the fence by the Bandana Parking garage and proceed to start going through a hole in it and across the tracks right as that CP job was coming! I shouted a warning, but they didn't listen. Luckily the first batch of three or four got across while the other two sensibly waited after finally waking up to the oncoming Big Bad Beaver Rail job. Guys; never try to cross tracks when a train is inbound! A trip to the soccer fields isn't worth a trip to the hospital or funeral home.
Photo Date:  8/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/14/2011 8:31:19 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9681(AC44CW) CP 8823(ES44AC) CP 8566(AC44CW)
Views:  867   Comments: 0
Passing The Overflow Parking
Title:  Passing The Overflow Parking
Description:  It's not just Saints games trains pass in the Midway on weekends; here a train I've been informed was CP's Chicago-Vancouver train 199 -made up strictly of autoracks followed by COFC on baretables- passes one of several automobiles parked on BNSF property due to overflow from street parking for soccer games taking place at Como Park this Saturday evening.
Photo Date:  7/7/2012  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 5:37:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8843(ES44AC) CP 8829(ES44AC)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
Eastbound CP Train In Medina
Title:  Eastbound CP Train In Medina
Description:  CP ES44AC 8840 and AC4400 9560 wheel an eastbound grain or potash (could not tell which) train through the Hamel area of Medina, MN (Hamel once was it's own town but later merged with Medina though retained it's local name). Also was taken by surprise by this one, since no whistling is allowed in Hamel, the first warning I got from this and the other train I caught here this day was when the grade crossing gates began to ding!
Photo Date:  9/8/2007  Upload Date: 9/9/2007 9:09:32 PM
Location:  Hamel, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8840(ES44AC) CP 9560(AC44CW)
Views:  911   Comments: 0
The New And The Old
Title:  The New And The Old
Description:  Four newer GEs still keep the old EMDs in the stored unit line company at Humboldt Yard.
Photo Date:  9/4/2020  Upload Date: 9/4/2020 7:57:12 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8854(ES44AC) CP 9605(AC44CW)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
The Row Is Smaller Now
Title:  The Row Is Smaller Now
Description:  Traffic levels on Canadian Pacific have increased to the point a number of the newer GEs stored here were reactivated.
Photo Date:  9/4/2020  Upload Date: 9/4/2020 7:56:05 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8854(ES44AC) SOO 2010(GP40)
Views:  1043   Comments: 0
CP 8855
Title:  CP 8855
Description:  Second of three units on a unit ethanol or fuel oil job arriving at Pigs Eye yard amidst a snow squall.
Photo Date:  1/14/2012  Upload Date: 1/16/2012 5:21:12 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8855(ES44AC)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Waiting At I-94
Title:  Waiting At I-94
Description:  A westbound CP freight waits at I-94 for a meet with an eastbound freight at East Humboldt. This is my first catch at this locale.
Photo Date:  5/5/2016  Upload Date: 5/5/2016 3:05:29 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8855(ES44AC) CEFX 1002(AC44CW)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Westbound On The Paynesville
Title:  Westbound On The Paynesville
Description:  A westbound CP freight (empty trap rock? Coal?) heads towards Loretto and points west at Willow Drive on a gorgeous May Day evening.
Photo Date:  5/1/2015  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 7:01:07 PM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8858(ES44AC)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
Hello, I Must Be Going
Title:  Hello, I Must Be Going
Description:  The DPU on an eastbound Canadian Pacific ethanol train nears Willow Drive on a gorgeous Monday afternoon in March.
Photo Date:  3/12/2018  Upload Date: 3/12/2018 4:15:49 PM
Location:  Medina, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8867(ES44AC)
Views:  332   Comments: 2
GEs Moving Up
Title:  GEs Moving Up
Description:  A stirng of CP power at Northtown Yard is about to complete the first part of a switching move. (I had no time to spare to see whether they were being coupled to a cut of cars or simply switched to another track.)
Photo Date:  3/10/2015  Upload Date: 3/12/2015 4:58:50 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9579(AC44CW) CP 9558(AC44CW) CP 8883(ES44AC)
Views:  332   Comments: 1
First At Owatonna!
Title:  First At Owatonna!
Description:  In all my years as a railfan, I'd not ever seen any trains on any of the lines in Owatonna. That dry spell broke at last about ten minutes before 5 p.m. on Memorial Day 2025, when I bagged this westbound CPKC power at State Avenue. Note the other two railfans in the left background, partially obscured by weeds. Note also the KCS component (air conditioner?) installed on CP 8902
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 6/6/2025 7:49:51 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8886(ES44AC) CP 8902(ES44AC)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
Racing Along The Alco Line
Title:  Racing Along The Alco Line
Description:  A CPKC light power move leaves State Avenue behind as it races through Owatonna around 5 p.m. on Memorial Day 2025. The crew was bound to pick up a train somewhere on this, the old Alco Line of C&NW fame.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 6/6/2025 7:50:40 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8902(ES44AC) CP 8886(ES44AC)
Views:  45   Comments: 0
Big lashup in the trees
Title:  Big lashup in the trees
Description:  One of the gripes of photographing eastbounds at Bandana Square is the trees that have sprouted along the fence bordering the property. This means this big lashup is, well, "in the trees" as a result.
Photo Date:  8/11/2013  Upload Date: 8/12/2013 9:52:09 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5002(SD30C-ECO) CP 5014(SD30C-ECO) ICE 6410(SD40-2) CP 9640(AC44CW) CP 8913(ES44AC)
Views:  925   Comments: 0
The last two of five
Title:  The last two of five
Description:  The last two units of an impressive and eclectic five unit lashup at the head of an eastbound mixed CP manifest is about to vanish out of sight of Bandana Square as the folks at the soccer game in the upper left corner pay the passing parade no heed.
Photo Date:  8/11/2013  Upload Date: 8/12/2013 10:46:24 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8913(ES44AC) CP 9640(AC44CW)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Descending Division Street
Title:  Descending Division Street
Description:  A southbound CP freight descends Division Street hill on National Train Day 2018.
Photo Date:  5/5/2018  Upload Date: 5/5/2018 10:11:47 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8916(ES44AC) CEFX 1035(AC44CW) CP 2271(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  567   Comments: 0
Passing The Park
Title:  Passing The Park
Description:  A southbound CP freight passes the railfan park at St. Paul Union Depot on a balmy Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  5/5/2018  Upload Date: 5/5/2018 10:12:58 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2271(GP20C-ECO) CEFX 1035(AC44CW) CP 8916(ES44AC)
Views:  535   Comments: 0
Sitting As The Clock Ticks Down
Title:  Sitting As The Clock Ticks Down
Description:  A CP trio sits near the Humboldt Yard office as the clock ticks down on the last hours of the Canadian Pacific eon an unseasonably warm (for a change) April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/11/2023  Upload Date: 4/11/2023 11:06:18 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 8957(ES44AC) CP 3002(GP38AC) CP 2250(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
Westbound Thunder
Title:  Westbound Thunder
Description:  Thunder resounded in the town Laura Ingalls Wilder made famous as CPKC wayfrieght 255 headed west for Tracy and a meet with the Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern.
Photo Date:  7/24/2024  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 9:10:28 PM
Location:  Walnut Grove, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8959(ES44AC) KCS 3961(SD70MAC)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
Drive-Thru Railfanning
Title:  Drive-Thru Railfanning
Description:  The road by the Canadian Pacific's Pigs Eye diesel shop makes for great drive-thru railfanning!
Photo Date:  9/7/2020  Upload Date: 9/7/2020 9:45:42 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 9648(AC44CW) CP 9354(ES44AC)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
Passing The Office
Title:  Passing The Office
Description:  The trailing unit on a two-unit lashup for a westbound CP freight passes the yard office at Humboldt Yard as the hogger gets a wheel into the train after picking up the brakeman that lined the train through the west end of the yard.
Photo Date:  3/17/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:57:26 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9368(ES44AC)
Views:  637   Comments: 0
Waiting For The First Switch To Be Aligned
Title:  Waiting For The First Switch To Be Aligned
Description:  A westbound freight snaking through Humboldt Yard has stopped to allow the brakeman to disembark and start lining two switches through to allow the train to sroceed west.
Photo Date:  3/17/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:56:24 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9754(AC44CW) CP 9368(ES44AC)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
Tip Toe Through Humboldt
Title:  Tip Toe Through Humboldt
Description:  A westbound CP freight tip toes through Humboldt Yard as the brakeman (out of view in the left background) alings the secomd of two switches needed to route the train through Humboldt.
Photo Date:  3/17/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:57:04 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9754(AC44CW) CP 9368(ES44AC)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
Snappy Back End
Title:  Snappy Back End
Description:  The back end of 9375's long hood sure looks snappy in black paint.
Photo Date:  6/2/2024  Upload Date: 6/30/2024 9:38:55 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
From The Sunny Side
Title:  From The Sunny Side
Description:  A sunny side closeup shot of the CPKC logo. I admit I could get used to this image, my friends, because it's a classy reworking of the legendary Canadian Pacific "beaver" emblem.
Photo Date:  6/2/2024  Upload Date: 6/30/2024 9:40:22 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
New Lettering And Revamped Logo
Title:  New Lettering And Revamped Logo
Description:  Sorry about the sun glare. My sunglasses obscured the fact I needed to dim my camera's setting! Oh well, still came out okay.
Photo Date:  6/2/2024  Upload Date: 6/30/2024 9:41:21 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC)
Views:  122   Comments: 0
Sunny Side View
Title:  Sunny Side View
Description:  A sunny side view of the CPKC logo and lettering on the 9375. Note the "CP" sub-lettering beneath the cab. "CPKC" is not yet a reporting mark, so the repainted units are going to be sub-lettered for their home roads until then.
Photo Date:  6/2/2024  Upload Date: 6/30/2024 9:59:07 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
First Shot of My Visit
Title:  First Shot of My Visit
Description:  The first thing I did when I reached Union Depot on Train Days 2024 was snap this shot of CPKC (CP sub-lettered) 9375. I must admit the new look sure is snappy.
Photo Date:  6/2/2024  Upload Date: 6/30/2024 10:01:41 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  CP 9375(ES44AC)
Views:  181   Comments: 0


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