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4/17/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Waiting At St. Anthony Junction
Title:  Waiting At St. Anthony Junction
Description:  Behold! Here captured in perfect lighting is the day's St. Paul transfer waiting at St. Anthony Junction for a clear signal to proceed to Minneapolis Junction, where the train will head west on the BNSF Wayzata Sub to home rails at Cedar Lake Junction.
Photo Date:  8/5/2006  Upload Date: 10/10/2007 6:59:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RRVW 2053(GP20C) TCWR 4300(GP30C) TCWR 2004(GP20C)
Views:  1633   Comments: 1
Westward Ho!
Title:  Westward Ho!
Description:  The TCWR 20th anniversary train to Glencoe rolls west after crossing Lyman Blvd on the old Milwaukewe Road.
Photo Date:  7/30/2011  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 1:36:17 PM
Location:  Chanhassen, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Happy 20th Anniversary!
Title:  Happy 20th Anniversary!
Description:  The passenger special to Glencoe celebrating 20th years of the Twin Cities and Western sits beneath a warm late July sky in downtown Chan about to board passengers.
Photo Date:  7/30/2011  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 1:35:52 PM
Location:  Chanhassen, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
Goodbye Chan
Title:  Goodbye Chan
Description:  As a pair of father-son duos savor the moment, the 20th Anniversary train clears Lyman Blvd on its way west.
Photo Date:  7/30/2011  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 2:10:46 PM
Location:  Chanhassen, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
TC&W Meet Up?
Title:  TC&W Meet Up?
Description:  As the St. Paul Turn heads east, what to my wondering eyes should appear but two TC&W units running light down at UP East Minneapolis! Are these units the new PTC-equipped engines?
Photo Date:  11/21/2015  Upload Date: 11/21/2015 5:22:21 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C) TCWR 2301(GP39-2)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
The St. Paul Turn At Van Cleve
Title:  The St. Paul Turn At Van Cleve
Description:  The St. Paul Turn passes Van Cleve Park (out of view to the right) as the crew wheels their train towards the Minnesota Commercial yard.
Photo Date:  11/21/2015  Upload Date: 11/21/2015 5:19:57 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
TCWR 4300
Title:  TCWR 4300
Description:  Roster view. Engine was idling.
Photo Date:  12/25/2015  Upload Date: 12/25/2015 2:58:40 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Idling The Yuletide Away
Title:  Idling The Yuletide Away
Description:  A mix of motive power idles away the Yuletide at Hopkins on Christmas Day 2015.
Photo Date:  12/25/2015  Upload Date: 12/25/2015 2:55:02 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2301(GP39-2) RRVW 406(GP10) TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
Eclectic Trio
Title:  Eclectic Trio
Description:  An eclectic trio of motive power idles at the former Milwaukee Road depot on Christmas Day 2015.
Photo Date:  12/25/2015  Upload Date: 12/25/2015 2:54:49 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RRVW 406(GP10) TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  210   Comments: 1
Dead CAT
Title:  Dead CAT
Description:  TCWR 4300 has had her day and is now, apparently, being used as a parts source while sitting in the Glencoe dead line. (Sigh) I remember when she first came on the roster. Farewell, old friend.
Photo Date:  10/29/2022  Upload Date: 10/30/2022 11:02:24 PM
Location:  Glencoe, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
No More Miles
Title:  No More Miles
Description:  Twin Cities & Western 4300 has, alas, run her last miles. Now she's at Glencoe, awaiting her final disposition.
Photo Date:  8/5/2023  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 9:42:02 PM
Location:  Glencoe, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4300(GP30C)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
TCW Roster Shot
Title:  TCW Roster Shot
Description:  I grabbed a roster shot of these two units as they passed beneath Raymond Avenue as part of a quartet of power for the St. Paul turn. Note the stopped grain train on the BNSF main across from the MNNR's yard.
Photo Date:  9/30/2006  Upload Date: 5/5/2009 2:13:45 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C) TCWR 2004(GP20C)
Views:  869   Comments: 0
TC&W St. Paul Turn Passing Under Highway 280.
Title:  TC&W St. Paul Turn Passing Under Highway 280.
Description:  It is late on a fine Saturday morning on the last day in September of 2006, and the daily TC&W Saint Paul turn is packing some serious motive power! TC&W GP30C 4301 is leading a Red River Valley and Western GP15C, and a TCW GP20 and GP30C as the hogger nurses his train past St. Anthony junction and the Minnesota Commercial yard. Note UP's east Minneapolis Yard (which used to be bigger in C&NW days. Way bigger, as I fondly recall from my childhood in the 1980's) in the center distance.
Photo Date:  9/30/2006  Upload Date: 10/1/2006 10:57:03 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C) RRVW 4105(GP15C) TCWR 2004(GP20C) TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  1374   Comments: 0
The St. Paul Turn's Power
Title:  The St. Paul Turn's Power
Description:  The TCWR St. Paul turn's power switches to the head of the train while preparing to depart the MNNR's Midway yard.
Photo Date:  9/30/2006  Upload Date: 5/4/2009 11:37:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) RRVW 4105(GP15C) TCWR 2004(GP20C) TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  1328   Comments: 0
TCWR 4301 at Zeigler CAT
Title:  TCWR 4301 at Zeigler CAT
Description:  TC&W 4301 is in a Zeigler CAT for some work on its CAT engine at the moment.
Photo Date:  3/18/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:19:15 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
It's Still Here?
Title:  It's Still Here?
Description:  Last March I photographed the 4301 at Ziegler CAT. It has been two months, and the unit has either not left in all that time, or has come back for more work. Man I wish I could photograph it moving down the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern...
Photo Date:  5/5/2014  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 12:38:33 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
Idling On The Main Track
Title:  Idling On The Main Track
Description:  I am used to finding TCWR units down by the former Milwaukee Road depot, but normally they are on the side track. These two units were idling down by the depot on the main track this morning. My cell phone camera came in handy since I had left my regular camera at home.
Photo Date:  8/6/2015  Upload Date: 8/6/2015 9:13:20 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
Morning Vista
Title:  Morning Vista
Description:  Here is a morning vista of these TCWR units down by the Hopkins depot. My cell phone camera did pretty good on this shot.
Photo Date:  8/6/2015  Upload Date: 8/6/2015 9:14:42 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C) TCWR 2301(GP39-2)
Views:  200   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn At I-94
Title:  St. Paul Turn At I-94
Description:  After passing the St. Paul Union Depot railfan park, the St. Paul Turn heads for Hopkins on a cool but otherwise pleasant December afternoon.
Photo Date:  12/9/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 9:38:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 3516(GP20C) TCWR 2011(GP38-2) TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Second Catch Of The Day
Title:  Second Catch Of The Day
Description:  My second catch of the day on this visit to St. Paul Union Depot's railfan park was the westbound Twin Cities & Western St. Paul Turn.
Photo Date:  12/9/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 9:37:54 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C) TCWR 2011(GP38-2) TCWR 3516(GP20C)
Views:  383   Comments: 1
Farewell
Title:  Farewell
Description:  No more miles for the 4301 either. Here she sits in the dead line on a Saturday afternoon, marking time until her final disposition.
Photo Date:  8/5/2023  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 9:48:27 PM
Location:  Glencoe, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4301(GP30C)
Views:  93   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn And Milepost
Title:  St. Paul Turn And Milepost
Description:  A portrait of the just-returned St. Paul Turn with the "432" milepost composed into it.
Photo Date:  12/17/2012  Upload Date: 12/19/2012 3:34:10 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) RRVW 4105(GP15C) TCWR 3516(GP20C)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn
Title:  St. Paul Turn
Description:  A close-up of the motive power of the TC&W St. Paul Turn as the engines idle away beneath a grey December sky after the crew had brought the train back to the Hopkins depot after the trip into the Cities. Interesting to note is how TC&W GP20C 3516 is still sporting its "Generation II Locomotives" paint job even after suffering a small fire some time ago.
Photo Date:  12/17/2012  Upload Date: 12/19/2012 3:34:32 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) RRVW 4105(GP15C) TCWR 3516(GP20C)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
In From The West End
Title:  In From The West End
Description:  I do not know which train this is, but it was --obviously-- in from the west end of the TC&W system. Was this a MPLI job?
Photo Date:  5/25/2015  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 9:16:00 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author: 
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) RRVW 406(GP10) TCWR 2301(GP39-2)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn
Title:  St. Paul Turn
Description:  I came upon the St. Paul Turn just after 7 a.m. this day. This impressive lashup would power the train on into Minneapolis/St. Paul proper so TC&W could interchange with the likes of Canadian Pacific.
Photo Date:  8/1/2015  Upload Date: 8/1/2015 8:02:50 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 4302(GP30C) RRVW 4105(GP15C) TCWR 2008(GP20C) RRVW 4106(GP15C)
Views:  489   Comments: 1
TCWR 2300 and TCWR 4302
Title:  TCWR 2300 and TCWR 4302
Description:  Roster views taken just after 7 a.m. on the first day of August.
Photo Date:  8/1/2015  Upload Date: 8/1/2015 8:04:04 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Ready For The St. Paul Turn
Title:  Ready For The St. Paul Turn
Description:  The St. Paul Turn's power idles on the main track by the former Milwaukee Road depot ready for the crew to board. Soon the crew will take them southwest along the line to where the St. Paul Turn's cars await pickup on the main track and the crew will be off to the Cities proper.
Photo Date:  9/19/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 4:09:46 PM
Location:  Hopkins, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 2300(GP39-2)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
St. Paul Turn Stopped South Of The Parkway
Title:  St. Paul Turn Stopped South Of The Parkway
Description:  The crew of the St. Paul Turn waits south of Cedar Lake Parkway for clearance to proceed on up to Cedar Lake Junction as southbound cyclists pass on by on the Kenilworth Trail.
Photo Date:  9/19/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 11:31:11 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C) TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2301(GP39-2)
Views:  260   Comments: 1
Stopped In The "Bottleneck"
Title:  Stopped In The "Bottleneck"
Description:  The eastbound St. Paul Turn waits south of Cedar Lake Parkway for a green signal on a gorgeous September Saturday morning. The train is waiting in the southern end of the "bottleneck" which stretches between Cedar Lake and Lake Street along the Kenilworth Corridor, which has been a bone of contention in the "relocate freight rail/co-located freight rail with LRT" debate.
Photo Date:  9/19/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 4:07:50 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TCWR 2300(GP39-2) TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
End Of The Line?
Title:  End Of The Line?
Description:  TCWR 4302, brother of TCWR 4300, has apprently reached the end of the line too. The unit was soaking up the sun in the Glencoe dead line this day.
Photo Date:  10/29/2022  Upload Date: 10/30/2022 11:03:13 PM
Location:  Glencoe, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
Empty Grain
Title:  Empty Grain
Description:  A westbound empty grain train idles on the main line east of Franklin on a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/5/2023  Upload Date: 8/15/2023 9:28:10 PM
Location:  Franklin, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  TCWR 2301(GP39-2) TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  129   Comments: 0
Hello Again!
Title:  Hello Again!
Description:  My friend Andy and I hadn't seen this Twin Cities & Western vet in a while.
Photo Date:  8/5/2023  Upload Date: 8/15/2023 9:28:38 PM
Location:  Franklin, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  TCWR 4302(GP30C)
Views:  110   Comments: 0


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