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6/12/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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North Of The Border Trailing Unit
Title:  North Of The Border Trailing Unit
Description:  The conductor has reboarded the 5302 after doing a roll-by inspection of a westbound freight. Now his train is departing with a north of the border unit as its companion. The train itself was a mix of tank cars and covered hoppers. What symbol was this train?
Photo Date:  11/12/2011  Upload Date: 11/12/2011 9:38:13 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 5302(C44-9W) TFM 1633(SD70MAC)
Views:  747   Comments: 1
Along For The Ride To Willmar
Title:  Along For The Ride To Willmar
Description:  A westbound general freight prepares to "split the signals" as it rumbles through town. Note how exhaust is coming from only the first two units. The other three are along for the ride to Willmar. Note how there are at least two ex-Santa Fe units in this lashup, as well as the KCS unit rolling along far from home rails.
Photo Date:  7/18/2014  Upload Date: 7/18/2014 10:13:50 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 613(C44-9W) KCS 3910(SD70MAC)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Rail Train With A Belle
Title:  Rail Train With A Belle
Description:  A rail train parked in the upper northeast side of Humboldt was the primary occupant of this part of the yard late on a Sunday afternoon. The KCS Southern Belle was a nice touch, and provided a vibrant contrast to the two stored CP units left in what was once a long deadline.
Photo Date:  4/13/2025  Upload Date: 5/8/2025 11:03:56 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 3919(SD70MAC)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
Southern Belle On The Point
Title:  Southern Belle On The Point
Description:  A Southern Belle SD70MAC sits on the point of a rail train set to roll west on the Paynesville Sub once the Monday sun rises. Late on this Sunday afternoon, however, the train cools its wheels at Humboldt Yard in the company of a pair of stored Canadian Pacific veterans sadly not destined to wear CPKC paint.
Photo Date:  4/13/2025  Upload Date: 5/8/2025 11:04:19 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 3919(SD70MAC)
Views:  49   Comments: 0
Mighty Parade
Title:  Mighty Parade
Description:  The imposing seven unit lash-up with mixed BNSF/KCS/SOO power passes the traffic on the Highway 12 bypass as it races east for Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/15/2010 10:19:59 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 711(C44-9W) BNSF 1544(GP28P) SOO 6048(SD60) SOO 6042(SD60) BNSF 4672(C44-9W) KCS 3930(SD70MAC) BNSF 5492(C44-9W)
Views:  1241   Comments: 0
Massed Motive Power!
Title:  Massed Motive Power!
Description:  Six of the seven units on this eastbound freight cram the frame as they pass under Brown Road.
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/15/2010 10:19:13 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 5492(C44-9W) KCS 3930(SD70MAC) BNSF 4672(C44-9W) SOO 6042(SD60) SOO 6048(SD60) BNSF 1544(GP28P) BNSF 711(C44-9W)
Views:  1150   Comments: 0
KCS 3930 Roster View
Title:  KCS 3930 Roster View
Description:  Missed a bit of the engine, but got most of it. Always a treat to see motive power from far off roads on the Wayzata subdivision!
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/15/2010 10:19:30 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  KCS 3930(SD70MAC)
Views:  568   Comments: 0
Candy Apple Red!
Title:  Candy Apple Red!
Description:  These two Soo Line units are fortunate to still be in service, what with half the old Soo SD60 stable gone to Indiana.
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/15/2010 10:19:45 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1544(GP28P) SOO 6048(SD60) SOO 6042(SD60) BNSF 4672(C44-9W) KCS 3930(SD70MAC) BNSF 5492(C44-9W)
Views:  1079   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:  172   Comments: 0
Waiting Ballast Train
Title:  Waiting Ballast Train
Description:  The CPKC's Herzog ballast train, which arrived in town from Ortonville three days previously, waits at the west throat of Humboldt Yard on a humid, cloudy evening, (Not the best of shots, since I only had my cell phone camera, but better than nothing.)
Photo Date:  5/31/2023  Upload Date: 5/31/2023 9:32:10 PM
Location:  Brooklyn Center, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 3967(SD70MAC) CP 6017(SD40-2)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
The Ballast Train Is In
Title:  The Ballast Train Is In
Description:  The CPKC ballast train, which had been depositing ballast along the Paynesville Sub in the days leading up to this picture, sits empty early on a Wednesday evening at Humboldt Yard.
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 6/7/2023 10:44:03 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2) KCS 3967(SD70MAC)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
Boo Yah!
Title:  Boo Yah!
Description:  "Boo yah!" I cried after snapping this shot of the CPKC train at Humboldt Yard. I thought I'd blown my only chance to bag this train, but lo and behold, there it was at the east end of the yard early on a Wednesday evening a week after I first saw the train! There are second chances in life, my friends.
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 6/7/2023 10:54:57 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 6017(SD40-2) KCS 3967(SD70MAC)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
I Am Gonna Miss This Paint Scheme
Title:  I Am Gonna Miss This Paint Scheme
Description:  Roster shot at Humboldt. I am gonna miss this paint scheme. Oh KCS, I barely got the chance to know ye.
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 6/7/2023 10:44:31 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  KCS 3967(SD70MAC)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
New And Old CSX
Title:  New And Old CSX
Description:  A new and an old CSX unit is the power at the disposal of this BNSF crew waiting for a clear signal in Long Lake as dusk approaches. This eastbound mixed manifest (train symbol anyone?) did not get cleared to proceed unitl around 7 P.M. CST.
Photo Date:  3/8/2014  Upload Date: 3/8/2014 8:07:55 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 4565(SD70MAC) CSX 7737(C40-8W)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
CSX Trio
Title:  CSX Trio
Description:  Soon after an eastbound grain train breezed through town another eastbound took the hole, this time a mixed freight&led by this CSX trio. Nice!
Photo Date:  8/15/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 1:15:42 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  CSX 5495(ES40DC) CSX 8591(SD50-2) CSX 4582(SD70MAC)
Views:  757   Comments: 0
CSX On The Ex-Northern Pacific
Title:  CSX On The Ex-Northern Pacific
Description:  Here comes a BNSF unit covered hopper job with a CSX unit and a FURX SD40-2 for power. We are just east of Highway 280 in the Midway area of St. Paul. The U oif M transitway is on the right.
Photo Date:  9/15/2006  Upload Date: 4/12/2009 10:21:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  CSX 4731(SD70MAC)
Views:  849   Comments: 0
One Colorful Lashup!
Title:  One Colorful Lashup!
Description:  The crew of this eastbound freight which briefly stopped on the Wayzata Sub out in Long Lake had one colorful lashup for motive power. The HLCX unit is a rare sight since HLCX units are more often found on the Union Pacific in the Twin Cities.
Photo Date:  9/27/2015  Upload Date: 9/27/2015 4:39:46 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Helf
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 5487(ES44DC) HLCX 6313(SD40-2) CSX 3018(ES44AC-H) CSX 4784(SD70MAC)
Views:  327   Comments: 1
Bringing Up The Rear At The Junction
Title:  Bringing Up The Rear At The Junction
Description:  SD70 MAC 8823 brings up the rear on a westbound empty unit coal train heading down the north leg of the wye at Minneapolis Junction going onto the BNSF Wayzata sub.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/16/2007 9:12:17 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8823(SD70MAC)
Views:  860   Comments: 0
The "Northtown-Pasco"?
Title:  The "Northtown-Pasco"?
Description:  The only "sunny side" train I could find down at Northtown sits beneaph the 44th Avenue bridge. This might be the "Northtown-Pasco" job I kept hearing about on the scanner. Certainly has the horses for a long trip up the Staples sub and beyond.
Photo Date:  8/7/2011  Upload Date: 8/7/2011 11:32:48 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6237(ES44AC) BNSF 8864(SD70MAC)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Black Diamond Hauler
Title:  Black Diamond Hauler
Description:  A going away shot of a coal train passing the Bandana Square parking garage.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/18/2010 5:07:23 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6232(ES44AC) BNSF 8873(SD70MAC)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
Beep Beep And Beep Beep
Title:  Beep Beep And Beep Beep
Description:  So titled because the hogger on this coal train headed east past Bandana Square kept blowing the air horn for some reason.
Photo Date:  12/7/2010  Upload Date: 12/18/2010 5:05:37 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8873(SD70MAC) BNSF 6232(ES44AC)
Views:  658   Comments: 0
Westbound empty unit coal train
Title:  Westbound empty unit coal train
Description:  Here comes a westbound empty unit coal train passing through Wayzata entering the grounds at the Wayzata Depot with SD70MAC 8874 and still in Grinstien Green SD70MAC 9686 on the point.
Photo Date:  7/24/2003  Upload Date: 2/22/2007 11:58:24 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8874(SD70MAC)
Views:  932   Comments: 0
A MAC For The DPU
Title:  A MAC For The DPU
Description:  A MAC is the DPU on this westbound empty unit coal train accelerating out of Long Lake and into Orono on the lovely afternoon of Memorial Day '09.
Photo Date:  5/25/2009  Upload Date: 5/25/2009 7:02:33 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8874(SD70MAC)
Views:  483   Comments: 0
Five Of The Six
Title:  Five Of The Six
Description:  This is a shot of five of the six units on an eastbound general manifest freight I bagged this day. I wish I could have gotten the number for that ex-BN unit you see at the bottom left corner.
Photo Date:  5/15/2014  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 6:47:46 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7017(ES44C4) BNSF 9658(SD70MAC) BNSF 239(SD75M) BNSF 8874(SD70MAC)
Views:  837   Comments: 0
There They Go
Title:  There They Go
Description:  There goes a six-unit lashup on the head end of an eastbound general freight. Most, if not all, of these units are coming into the Twin Cities from the BNSF yard at Willmar. I wish I was able to ID all six of these units. The best I can guess is that the ex-BN unit you see is a GP-something still in virtually intact BN paint.
Photo Date:  5/15/2014  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 7:03:12 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9764(SD70MAC) BNSF 7017(ES44C4) BNSF 9658(SD70MAC) BNSF 239(SD75M) BNSF 8874(SD70MAC)
Views:  879   Comments: 0
Big Lashup On The Move
Title:  Big Lashup On The Move
Description:  No less than six units (of which I got the road numbers for five) is on the point of this eastbound general freight. Incidentally, this train was briefly stopped by the dispatcher before the crew was cleared to proceed east. The hogger was getting a wheel back into the train when I snapped this picture.
Photo Date:  5/15/2014  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 6:47:24 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8874(SD70MAC) BNSF 9658(SD70MAC) BNSF 239(SD75M) BNSF 9764(SD70MAC) BNSF 7017(ES44C4)
Views:  888   Comments: 0
Passing Trains
Title:  Passing Trains
Description:  This eastbound coal job had been stopped for about an hour on the main track in Long Lake waiting for the westbound general freight on the right to arrive. Finally, the hogger on the coal job was able to coax momentum into his train once again when the meet finally occured and continued on into Minneapolis with their load of Wyoming coal.
Photo Date:  10/31/2008  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 6:58:15 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6123(ES44AC) BNSF 8893(SD70MAC)
Views:  801   Comments: 0
Passing Each Othcr By
Title:  Passing Each Othcr By
Description:  The engineer on an eastbound BNSF coal job gets a wheel into the train after an hour's wait for the general freight at the left to arrive for a meet in Long Lake.
Photo Date:  10/31/2008  Upload Date: 10/31/2008 7:08:01 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6123(ES44AC) BNSF 8893(SD70MAC)
Views:  698   Comments: 0
Into The November Sun
Title:  Into The November Sun
Description:  Here is this eastbound unit coal train racing east into the rising sun on the morning of the first day in November.
Photo Date:  11/1/2007  Upload Date: 11/1/2007 5:36:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8896(SD70MAC) BNSF 5726(ES44AC)
Views:  1026   Comments: 0
Cab Shot
Title:  Cab Shot
Description:  Took this on a whim. Pic turned out pretty good. I remember when these babies were brand-new on the BNSF.
Photo Date:  5/16/2018  Upload Date: 5/16/2018 9:51:20 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8899(SD70MAC)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Preparing To Depart
Title:  Preparing To Depart
Description:  The crew of an empty eastbound BNSF unit coal train prepares to depart after waiting on the siding down by the County 15/Highway 12 overpass.
Photo Date:  5/16/2018  Upload Date: 5/16/2018 9:50:56 PM
Location:  Wayzata, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8993(SD70ACe) BNSF 8899(SD70MAC)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
BNSF Power For CP Coal
Title:  BNSF Power For CP Coal
Description:  A MAC duo charges across Main Street in the employ of the CP today.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 5:22:23 PM
Location:  Winona, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 8900(SD70MAC) BNSF 9448(SD70MAC)
Views:  744   Comments: 0
Streaking By
Title:  Streaking By
Description:  A southbound CP coal train with BNSF power (including the DPU) shoots past the Winona depot as people await the return of the side fall color trip to LaCrescent.
Photo Date:  10/9/2011  Upload Date: 10/17/2011 5:29:42 PM
Location:  Winona, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  BNSF 9448(SD70MAC) BNSF 8900(SD70MAC)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
Into The Siding
Title:  Into The Siding
Description:  Early on a balmy May evening, an eastbound general freight with an impressive lashup takes the siding for, apparently, a crew change down at Wayzata.
Photo Date:  5/17/2018  Upload Date: 5/17/2018 8:42:35 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6916(ES44C4) CREX 1412(ES44AC) BNSF 8504(SD70ACe) BNSF 9385(SD70ACe) BNSF 8906(SD70MAC) BNSF 9747(SD70MAC)
Views:  577   Comments: 2
Going To Switch Crews
Title:  Going To Switch Crews
Description:  The crew of an eastbound BNSF general freight takes their train down the siding bound for Wayzata and a change of crews.
Photo Date:  5/17/2018  Upload Date: 5/17/2018 8:44:03 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9747(SD70MAC) BNSF 8906(SD70MAC) BNSF 9385(SD70ACe) BNSF 8504(SD70ACe) CREX 1412(ES44AC) BNSF 6916(ES44C4)
Views:  581   Comments: 0
BNSF 8907
Title:  BNSF 8907
Description:  Roster shot. Unit was last of six on a freight. Note how weathered the green paint has gotten at the top. Still nice to see SD70s out and about, though.
Photo Date:  4/22/2018  Upload Date: 4/22/2018 9:08:26 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8907(SD70MAC)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
Wow!
Title:  Wow!
Description:  Feeling my photography slid into the mediocre during a railfan jaunt the day before, I wanted to try my luck again. Lo and behold: I came upon this lashup at Northtown Yard's north throat. Power belonged to a freight that had arrived and was getting its cars switched into the yard. Since some of these units were not operating and thus "along for the ride", I suspect this train came from Willmar.
Photo Date:  4/22/2018  Upload Date: 4/22/2018 9:04:19 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7923(ES44C4) BNSF 7573(ES44DC) BNSF 2699(GP39-3) BNSF 8907(SD70MAC) CSX 7688(C40-8W) BNSF 7488(ES44DC)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
Wow, this turned out great!
Title:  Wow, this turned out great!
Description:  Thanks to lowering the brightness on my 2010 Olympus Stylus, this slightly backlit shot turned out great! This locomotive is the DPU unit on an eastbound grain job that got tagged by the dispatcher in Long Lake for a couple hours, leaving it parked on the main just over the border with Orono at Willow Drive.
Photo Date:  8/30/2013  Upload Date: 8/30/2013 7:33:06 PM
Location:  Orono, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8926(SD70MAC)
Views:  363   Comments: 0
Smoke It Up!
Title:  Smoke It Up!
Description:  Boy were the crew of the 9679 blowing the carbon out but good! Away their MAC duo goes. Having passed beneath Brown Road and now charging for the Williow Drive underpass at the Long Lake/Orono border. Meanwhile, traffic on the Highway 12 bypass flows on oblivious to the good show on the tracks.
Photo Date:  4/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 7:09:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8933(SD70MAC) BNSF 9679(SD70MAC)
Views:  610   Comments: 0
Smokey MAC's
Title:  Smokey MAC's
Description:  Making enough smoke to make a steam engine proud, the pair of MAC's at the head end of this empty westbound coal job on the Wayzata sub is about to duck under Brown Road. Even without it's BN herald the Grinstien Green paint on the 9679 still looks good even today. Over ten years after the BN/ATSF merger.
Photo Date:  4/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 7:09:10 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9679(SD70MAC) BNSF 8933(SD70MAC)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
The Engines From My Youth
Title:  The Engines From My Youth
Description:  When I was a teenager, engines like the 8937 formed part of the backbone of the BNSF fleet. Now she and many of her compatriots are parked at Northtown due to fluctuating traffic levels.
Photo Date:  2/15/2020  Upload Date: 2/15/2020 8:28:46 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 8937(SD70MAC)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
Six Units!
Title:  Six Units!
Description:  I came across this stopped eastbound freight while heading out of Long Lake today. The lead unit lashup was very impressive, though at least a couple of them may have been shut down and hitching a ride from Willmar to Northtown.
Photo Date:  11/22/2015  Upload Date: 11/22/2015 7:20:34 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8949(SD70MAC) BNSF 7238(ES44DC) BNSF 6619(ES44C4) BNSF 7155(ES44C4) BNSF 4313(C44-9W) BNSF 8183(ES44C4)
Views:  732   Comments: 0
Trailing MAC
Title:  Trailing MAC
Description:  Trailing an eastbound unit coal train is BNSF SD70MAC 8979. Love that house in the background of this and it's companion shot of the lead unit on this train.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/10/2007 7:16:24 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8979(SD70MAC)
Views:  854   Comments: 0
Paused Eastbound
Title:  Paused Eastbound
Description:  An eastbound BNSF unit grain (?) train pauses near my home in Long Lake until dispatch will clear them to proceed on down the Wayzata Subdivision into town.
Photo Date:  12/17/2019  Upload Date: 12/17/2019 9:05:11 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5987(ES44AC) BNSF 8982(SD70MAC) BNSF 100(GP60M)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
On to the green signal!
Title:  On to the green signal!
Description:  This National Train Day westbound charges for the green main track signal at the Long Lake end of the Long Lake/Wayzata siding.
Photo Date:  5/11/2013  Upload Date: 5/11/2013 8:41:27 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9451(SD70MAC) BNSF 7649(ES44DC) BNSF 5191(C44-9W)
Views:  703   Comments: 0
A National Train Day BNSF westbound
Title:  A National Train Day BNSF westbound
Description:  Here comes a westbound BNSF freight rumbling through Long Lake on National Train Day 2013. Note the stopped eastbound in the siding in the right background.
Photo Date:  5/11/2013  Upload Date: 5/11/2013 8:38:07 PM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 5191(C44-9W) BNSF 7649(ES44DC) BNSF 9451(SD70MAC)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
Eastbound black diamonds
Title:  Eastbound black diamonds
Description:  An eastbound unit coal train emerges from beneath the Hopkins Crossroad bridge as the crew rolls it towards Minneapolis along the Wayzata Sub. Note the ex-BN SD70MAC.
Photo Date:  8/11/2013  Upload Date: 8/12/2013 1:44:35 PM
Location:  Minnetonka, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9457(SD70MAC) BNSF 6244(ES44AC)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
Eastbound coal at Minnehaha Creek
Title:  Eastbound coal at Minnehaha Creek
Description:  An eastbound unit coal traUn has just crossed Minnehaha Creek for the second time on its journey east along the Wayzata Sub. It now is about to pass signal 191 as it approaches the Hopkins Crossroad underpass.
Photo Date:  8/11/2013  Upload Date: 8/12/2013 1:43:29 PM
Location:  Minnetonka, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6244(ES44AC) BNSF 9457(SD70MAC)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
Backlit Motive Power
Title:  Backlit Motive Power
Description:  Nuts. I wish the clouds were over the sun when I snapped this, but time was short. It still looks kinda nice, all things considered. These units were on the point of one of two coal trains stopped on the Wayzata Sub late on this cold, crisp Saturday morning.
Photo Date:  11/23/2013  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 12:53:14 AM
Location:  Long Lake, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 6322(ES44AC) BNSF 9520(SD70MAC)
Views:  589   Comments: 0
Grinstein Green Vets
Title:  Grinstein Green Vets
Description:  At one end of the stored unit line at Northtown Yard's south end are these two Grinstein Green veterans. I remember when these were top of the line units. Hopefully they have some more miles to roll.
Photo Date:  4/21/2018  Upload Date: 4/21/2018 9:45:46 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 9571(SD70MAC) BNSF 9527(SD70MAC)
Views:  568   Comments: 1


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