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Uncle Pete Switchers By Van Cleeve Park
Title:  Uncle Pete Switchers By Van Cleeve Park
Description:  Where CNW Geeps and GP15's, LLPX ex-UP GP38-2 2256 and UP GP38-3 910 pause during a switching move on a gorgeous early May afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/16/2007 9:06:26 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LLPX 2256(GP38-2) UP 910(GP38-3)
Views:  623   Comments: 1
Swtichers And The Bunge Elevator
Title:  Swtichers And The Bunge Elevator
Description:  Here is another view of the UP East Minneapolis yard power I photographed on this date, as viewed from the pedestrian bridge at Van Cleeve Park. Sad to say, the old Bunge elevator had only a year left to stand before demolition began on the long-vacant grain elevator.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/16/2007 9:13:24 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LLPX 2256(GP38-2) UP 910(GP38-3)
Views:  1017   Comments: 1
The UP Port Cargill Job
Title:  The UP Port Cargill Job
Description:  The UP Port Cargill job waits to head back to Valley Park yard as a winter sunset begins.
Photo Date:  2/6/2002  Upload Date: 4/17/2009 10:26:31 PM
Location:  Savage, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 2511(GP38-3) UP 1233(GP39-2)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
CEFX 3800
Title:  CEFX 3800
Description:  A sun-splashed roster shot, taking during a pause in switching Malt-O-Meal.
Photo Date:  7/30/2015  Upload Date: 8/1/2015 6:08:36 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CEFX 3800(GP38-3)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Hasty Shot
Title:  Hasty Shot
Description:  I stumbled upon Progressive Rail's Northfield job as it departed Lakeville. I only had time for two hasty shots while holding my camera out my car window. This was the best of the two.
Photo Date:  7/30/2015  Upload Date: 7/31/2015 10:41:46 AM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
PGR Switching Malt O Meal
Title:  PGR Switching Malt O Meal
Description:  Progressive Rail's Northfield job switches Malt O Meal beneath sunny late July skies.
Photo Date:  7/30/2015  Upload Date: 7/31/2015 10:48:52 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Crew Confab
Title:  Crew Confab
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew confers before they commence moving stored freight cars parked along the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern north of Dodd Boulevard in Lakeville. PGR picked a nice, mild day for the move.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:29:21 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  417   Comments: 1
Coupling Up
Title:  Coupling Up
Description:  The road power couples up to a string of stored small (cement?) hoppers parked along the inactive main line of the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern. The fallow fields lend an air of prairie railroading to this scene.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:30:02 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
Crossing Dodd
Title:  Crossing Dodd
Description:  A school bus driver patiently waits while the Progressive Rail crew moves their leased unit trio across Dodd Boulevard shortly after 9 A.M. at the start of a stored freight car move.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:28:47 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  401   Comments: 2
Pause
Title:  Pause
Description:  The PGR crew pauses a moment at the start of the stored freight car move which took place this day.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:31:08 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
Moving Past Fallow Fields
Title:  Moving Past Fallow Fields
Description:  The PGR road power moves up past fallow fields north of Dodd Boulevard as the stored freight car move begins.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:29:40 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CEFX 6671(GP38-3) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CITX 6352(GP38-2)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Resume
Title:  Resume
Description:  The PGR crew resumes pushing as they continue to couple up strings of covered hoppers stored along the old MN&S main line.
Photo Date:  2/10/2017  Upload Date: 2/10/2017 7:31:42 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CITX 6352(GP38-2) CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
Idle Leasers
Title:  Idle Leasers
Description:  Two lease units which, along with PGR 40, had been holding down the Lakeville to Northfield duties rest at the north end of the yard on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/7/2022  Upload Date: 8/14/2022 12:49:20 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CEFX 3800(GP38-3) CBFX 3805(GP38-3)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
Idling Beneath The Sunny Skies
Title:  Idling Beneath The Sunny Skies
Description:  CBFX 3805 idles in the company of Progressive Rail 40 (just visible at right) beneath mild, sunny skies on a late April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2021  Upload Date: 4/23/2021 7:54:24 AM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CBFX 3805(GP38-3)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
CEFX 6671
Title:  CEFX 6671
Description:  Roster view. Unit is one of three currently assigned in Lakeville to Northfield and related operations.
Photo Date:  7/30/2015  Upload Date: 8/1/2015 6:10:11 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CEFX 6671(GP38-3)
Views:  138   Comments: 0


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