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| 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) |
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113 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Charging For Wayzata |
| Description: |
Away goes this Norfolk Southern trio. Racing for the Luce Line trail bridge and the Wayzata/Long Lake border. Behind the NS 2591 are a pair of plaine-jane NS SD70s. On days like these you'd think you were east of Chicago on the old Conrail lines rather than in the Gopher State, which is just fine by this railfan. Why go to the railroad when the railroad can come to you, hey? |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/2009 Upload Date: 4/17/2009 10:08:55 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Krebes |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 2579(SD70) NS 2591(SD70M) |
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189 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Norfolk Southern Thunder! |
| Description: |
The sound of crickets and frogs anticipating the potential for rain and the noise of traffic on the Highway 12 bypass is suddenly shattered in dramatic fashion by this train on a gorgeous summer-like April afternoon. The crew of this eastbound mixed freight have themselves a trio of NS units for power with SD70M 2591 as the lead unit. Here they are splitting the signals in Long Lake as they race for Wayzata. |
| Photo Date: |
4/17/2009 Upload Date: 4/17/2009 10:08:27 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Krebes |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 2591(SD70M) |
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149 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Departing Grain |
| Description: |
An eastbound BNSF grain train with a mix of Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific units for power departs Long Lake on a rainy evening after being briefly stopped in town. Picture was taken from my apartment. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/2018 Upload Date: 5/14/2018 7:48:17 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 2608(SD70M) UP 5826(AC44CWCTE) NS 8165(ES44AC) |
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193 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Apartment Railfanning |
| Description: |
I live pretty close to the BNSF Wayzata Sub, and I finally discovered how decent a vantage point my apartment can make. And so, early on a rainy evening in early May, I bagged this departing eastbound grain train which had an interesting mix of motive power at the crew's disposal. |
| Photo Date: |
5/14/2018 Upload Date: 5/14/2018 7:47:58 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 8165(ES44AC) UP 5826(AC44CWCTE) NS 2608(SD70M) |
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196 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Norfolk Southern Trio |
| Description: |
The morning of the day after Thanksgiving sees these three NS units lead by SD70M 2616 rolling east on the Wayzata sub in Long Lake leading a general freight. |
| Photo Date: |
11/24/2006 Upload Date: 4/15/2007 7:05:56 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Krebes |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 2616(SD70M) |
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384 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Crawling into the hole |
| Description: |
An eastbound (sand?) unit train crawls into the hole at Long Lake for a meet in a few hours with a westbound on the Wayzata sub. |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:55:05 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BNSF 5375(C44-9W) UP 4001(SD70M) UP 8319(SD70ACe) |
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209 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Two Uncle Petes and a Pumpkin |
| Description: |
This eastbound unit (sand?) train taking the siding in Long Lake on this April Sunday afternoon had two UP units along with a BNSF one at the crew's disposal. There was no DPU unit on the hind end, incidentally. |
| Photo Date: |
4/28/2013 Upload Date: 4/28/2013 8:40:43 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 8319(SD70ACe) UP 4001(SD70M) BNSF 5375(C44-9W) |
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248 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Waiting Sand Train |
| Description: |
A Union Pacific sand train idles at the north end of the yard on Labor Day 2017. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2017 Upload Date: 9/7/2017 7:00:15 PM |
| Location: |
Chippewa Falls, WI |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 7998(AC45CCTE) UP 5382(AC45CCTE) UP 4012(SD70M) UP 8351(SD70ACe) |
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203 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
More Sand Train Power |
| Description: |
The last two of a quartet of units idling on the point of a sand train I found in the yard on Labor Day 2017. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2017 Upload Date: 9/7/2017 7:01:16 PM |
| Location: |
Chippewa Falls, WI |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 4012(SD70M) UP 8351(SD70ACe) |
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150 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power At Roseport |
| Description: |
I found four units parked on the end of live rails on the old Chicago Great Western main line at Roseport in Rosemount on the evening of Summer Solstice 2016. Behind the 4409 was a CSX unit, another UP unit, and a BNSF unit. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/2016 Upload Date: 6/21/2016 5:49:52 AM |
| Location: |
Rosemount, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 4409(SD70M) |
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69 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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172 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Far from the ex-C&NW |
| Description: |
These UP units are in Minnesota but are far from the ex-C&NW rails they normally traverse. Today they are the motive power for a short BNSF train consisting of empty ex-BN and AT&SF ballast hoppers. The crew got stopped by red signals in Long Lake for about thirty minutes or so until they finally got cleared on through. |
| Photo Date: |
7/6/2013 Upload Date: 7/6/2013 6:47:09 PM |
| Location: |
Long Lake, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4984(SD70M) UP 4771(SD70M) |
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271 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
UP 4926 and UP 2357 at East Minneapolis yard. |
| Description: |
UP SD70M 4926 and SD60M 2357 awaiting assignment at East Minneapolis yard. I had to find a perspective from the western side due to that being where tje sun was in the afternoon, and voila. Here is this portrait of big Uncle Pete power. |
| Photo Date: |
4/23/2006 Upload Date: 10/14/2006 1:48:54 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Krebes |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 4926(SD70M) UP 2357(SD60M) |
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619 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Funky Cab Windows |
| Description: |
A trick of light makes the cab windows look funky on the lead unit of a unit ethanol or fuel oil job arriving at Pigs Eye yard with a CP unit sandwhiched between two UP units. |
| Photo Date: |
1/14/2012 Upload Date: 1/16/2012 5:20:41 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
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| Locomotives: |
UP 5044(SD70M) |
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245 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling Into Humboldt |
| Description: |
A westbound auto rack/COFC train rolls into Humboldt, passing the frosty tank cars of an eastbound unit oil train on one side and a string of freight cars on the other. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/2015 Upload Date: 11/21/2015 4:07:39 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CEFX 1059(AC44CW) UP 5112(SD70M) |
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109 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CEFX And UP On The Point |
| Description: |
A westbound auto rack/COFC train rolls into Humboldt Yard, passing tank cars coated in frost which belonged to a stopped eastbound oil train. Soon this westbound would come to a stop, and the oil train would head east. |
| Photo Date: |
11/21/2015 Upload Date: 11/21/2015 5:52:59 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CEFX 1059(AC44CW) UP 5112(SD70M) |
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110 Comments: 1 |
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