|
| 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) |
| Views: |
119 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Sand Train Power |
| Description: |
Close up of the first two of four units on the head end of a sand train I found here on Labor Day 2017. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/2017 Upload Date: 9/7/2017 7:00:43 PM |
| Location: |
Chippewa Falls, WI |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
UP 7998(AC45CCTE) UP 5382(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
140 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Uncle Pete On The CGW |
| Description: |
The trailing unit on a parked empty Union Pacific grain train awaiting a post-weekend Progressive Rail crew sits powered down on what was once the Chicago Great Western's route to Red Wing. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 7/11/2023 8:34:47 PM |
| Location: |
Waterford, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
UP 5393(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
27 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Uncle Pete And Dame's Rocket |
| Description: |
My railfan outing companion Andy pointed out the Dame's Rocket (right foreground) floruishing along the old CGW and encouraged me to snap a photo of them, so I worked some of those flowers into this shot of the tail end of an empty Uncle Pete grain train awaiting to be crewed and loaded at Randolph after the weekend was over. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 7/11/2023 8:35:16 PM |
| Location: |
Waterford, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5393(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
24 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Mid-Train Helper |
| Description: |
An eastbbound Union Pacific freight passed St. Paul Union Depot while I was merrily photographing U.P. 4014. I took time out to bag the mid-train helper too. |
| Photo Date: |
7/22/2019 Upload Date: 7/31/2019 10:48:49 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5506(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
76 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
What Ho! |
| Description: |
An eastbound (?) Union Pacific freight passed Union Depot and headed up Division Street after the steam special returned to Union Depot. I snapped this almost-flawless shot of the mid-train helper unit passing the Big Boy. I wonder if anyone in that pickup truck at upper left stuck in traffic on highway 52 cast admiring glances at the 4014? |
| Photo Date: |
7/22/2019 Upload Date: 9/22/2019 9:37:04 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 5506(AC45CCTE) UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
| Views: |
159 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
UP 5517 |
| Description: |
The third and last unit of a three-diesel lashup on the point of a unit ethanol or unit petrochemical train arriving at Pigs Eye yard on a day notable for snow during a mild winter. A long string of tank cars followed behind the boxcar tacked on behind the 5517. |
| Photo Date: |
1/14/2012 Upload Date: 1/16/2012 5:21:29 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Richard Held |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
UP 5517(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
188 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
First Catch Of The Day |
| Description: |
My first catch on this visit to the railfan park at St. Paul Union Depot was this westbound Canadian Pacific freight that had a mix of CP and UP motive power. |
| Photo Date: |
12/9/2017 Upload Date: 12/9/2017 9:34:54 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CP 8629(AC44CW) UP 5523(AC45CCTE) |
| Views: |
121 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Passing The Station Sign |
| Description: |
A westbound ethanol train with a friendly hogger aboard (he tooted the horn on his run-through CSX leader when he saw my buddy Andy and I watching the train pass) fills Hamburg with late afternoon thunder as it passes the station sign while bound for Winthrop. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/2023 Upload Date: 8/8/2023 8:27:16 PM |
| Location: |
Hamburg, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7021(CM44AC) UP 7347(AC45CCTE) UP 3059(SD70AH-T4) |
| Views: |
41 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Heading For The MPL |
| Description: |
The engineer aboard a westbound TC&W-crewed UP ethanol train bound for Wintrhop gets the train in motion again while a Twin Cities & Western pickup truck (at right) carries the train's conductor down to the switch for the Minnesota Prairie Line. There the conductor will unlock the switch and reboard the train, leaving the TC&W employee in the truck to close the switch once the train's last car has entered the MPL. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/2023 Upload Date: 8/15/2023 8:52:57 PM |
| Location: |
Norwood Young America, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7021(CM44AC) UP 7347(AC45CCTE) UP 3059(SD70AH-T4) |
| Views: |
59 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Pausing At Tacoma |
| Description: |
The engineer aboard a westbound Twin Cities & Western-crewed Union Pacific ethanol train brings it to a stop at Tacoma Avenue late on a Saturday afternoon so the conductor can ride the TC&W pickup truck (bottom right) down to unlock the switch for the Minnesota Prairie Line. |
| Photo Date: |
8/5/2023 Upload Date: 8/15/2023 8:51:34 PM |
| Location: |
Norwood Young America, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 7021(CM44AC) UP 7347(AC45CCTE) UP 3059(SD70AH-T4) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Big Power On The CGW |
| Description: |
Two big GEs sit on the point of a parked empty grain train bound for Randolph for loading once the weekend was over. Who could have guessed that the rickety former Chicago Great Western rails here would one day be spruced up so good, big motive power could traverse them? |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 7/11/2023 8:37:03 PM |
| Location: |
Waterford, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
UP 8019(AC45CCTE) UP 5611(AC44CWCTE) |
| Views: |
55 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Big Grain Train On The Old Great Western |
| Description: |
Awaiting a post-weekend crew, a big grain train bound for the loading facility at Randolph waits beneath mild skies on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2023. |
| Photo Date: |
5/28/2023 Upload Date: 7/11/2023 8:37:50 PM |
| Location: |
Waterford, MN |
| Author: |
Tony Held |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
UP 8019(AC45CCTE) UP 5611(AC44CWCTE) |
| Views: |
56 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
