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2/3/2026
 
 
 
 
  Viewing the last 200 photos I selected as my favorite Pictures.
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MNS 15
Title:  MNS 15
Description:  Best portait I could get of this caboose on display at the QGR Lakeville freight house.
Photo Date:  6/19/2015  Upload Date: 6/19/2015 6:29:40 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  3046   Comments: 0
Intermodal Power
Title:  Intermodal Power
Description:  The second and third units of a three unit lashup on the point of an eastbound intermodal train pass through Fridley Northstar.
Photo Date:  9/28/2014  Upload Date: 10/3/2014 6:03:29 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4844(C44-9W) BNSF 6527(ES44C4)
Views:  1475   Comments: 0
Passing The Office
Title:  Passing The Office
Description:  The trailing unit on a two-unit lashup for a westbound CP freight passes the yard office at Humboldt Yard as the hogger gets a wheel into the train after picking up the brakeman that lined the train through the west end of the yard.
Photo Date:  3/17/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:57:26 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 9368(ES44AC)
Views:  984   Comments: 0
ARR 712
Title:  ARR 712
Description:  Roster view of this classic RDC.
Photo Date:  8/16/2015  Upload Date: 8/25/2015 3:28:38 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  ARR 712(RDC2)
Views:  1202   Comments: 0
Doodlebug Trail Looking North
Title:  Doodlebug Trail Looking North
Description:  The Doodlebug Trail stretches north from 7th Avenue Northwest on Memorial Day 2025. And yet, in my mind's eye I can picture a set of C&NW F units rounding the bend in the distance with a long cut of freight cars behind them.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:42:32 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
Informative Plaque
Title:  Informative Plaque
Description:  This informative plaque on the Owatonna depot's south side is highly informative about the station's story.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:24:43 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
Nice Touch
Title:  Nice Touch
Description:  The station sign "Owatonna" on the west side of the depot looks out over Founder's Park on Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:23:21 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  34   Comments: 0
Station And Display Track
Title:  Station And Display Track
Description:  Owatonna Union Depot still retains its display track, although the old Illinois Central steam engine and wooden Soo Line caboose that once could be found displayed upon them have moved on to new homes. Still, the tracks are a nice touch, because a depot without rails is like a ship sitting high and dry upon a beach. Station can be found at Founder's Park.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:22:26 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Track
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
Parking Lot Side
Title:  Parking Lot Side
Description:  The parking lot (south) side of Owatonna Union Depot, which is now part of Owatonna's Founder's Park. On this Memorial Day 2025, all was quiet here.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:24:12 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
Owatonna Union Depot
Title:  Owatonna Union Depot
Description:  Owatonna Union Depot stands quiet but proud late on the afternoon of Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:21:43 PM
Location:  Owatonna, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Track
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Views:  16   Comments: 0
The Louie South of 330th
Title:  The Louie South of 330th
Description:  A view south along the old Minneapolis & St. Louis main line at 330th Avenue shows the red "stop" sign to the left indicating to crews storing cars on the line that end of active track down at 315th Avenue is near. What a tragedy the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern didn't own the Louie all the way to Albert Lea! If they had, CPKC might be operating to there, making the old Louie pulse with life, rather than sit and rust, surrounded by memories of happier times.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:07:36 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  28   Comments: 0
The Louie North Of 330th
Title:  The Louie North Of 330th
Description:  The old Louie soaks up the sun on Memorial Day 2025 north of 330th Avenue. Through traffic used to pass this way until 2008, when the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern stopped going to Albert Lea, dooming the line to truncation at Hartland, MN thanks to Union Pacific owning the Louie south of there.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:07:15 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  19   Comments: 0
The Lone Crossbck
Title:  The Lone Crossbck
Description:  The lone crossbuck on the old Minneapolis & St. Louis south of Waseca proper stands battered and weathered on Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:06:49 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  37   Comments: 0
More A Formality
Title:  More A Formality
Description:  Thanks to the old Louie becoming an elongated spur track south of Waseca proper, this sign on the lone crossbuck at 330th Avenue is now more a formality due to the dearth of activity here.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:06:33 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
North of 315th
Title:  North of 315th
Description:  The old main line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis sits empty and forlorn north of 315th Avenue beneath partly cloudy skies on Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:06:06 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  26   Comments: 0
Another Detail Shot
Title:  Another Detail Shot
Description:  This time of GN 400's number boards and rotating light.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:04:10 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Diving Under 315th
Title:  Diving Under 315th
Description:  The end of inactive track on the old Louie main line south of Waseca has the rails dive under 315th Avenue and pop up on the other side like a swimmier doing a deep dive in a pool. (Sigh) CPKC, can't you do better than this?!
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:05:34 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  20   Comments: 0
The Louie Botanical Garden
Title:  The Louie Botanical Garden
Description:  South of 315th Avenue, the old Minneapolis & St. Louis is now a botanical garden thanks to there being no customers in Hartland, the last stop on intact rails before abandoned grade begins. (Sigh) CPKC has got to stop doing this to inactive corridors!
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 8:04:54 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Track
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Views:  25   Comments: 0
Pulling On Down
Title:  Pulling On Down
Description:  The Waseca yard crew pulls on down the old Alco Line a bit during a switching move beneath partly cloudy skies on Memorial Day 2025. Note the former C&NW depot, now a restaurant, in the left background.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:38:43 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2204(GP20C-ECO) CP 2255(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
Pulling Onto The Old Alco Line
Title:  Pulling Onto The Old Alco Line
Description:  The Waseca yard crew pulls their pair of yard goats onto the old Alco Line while doing a switching move at the yard on Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:29:52 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2255(GP20C-ECO) CP 2204(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
Water Tower And A Pair Of ECOs
Title:  Water Tower And A Pair Of ECOs
Description:  Wondering what town you're in? If all else fails, check the water tower. Here CPKC's yard goats pause in mid-switch move with the Waseca water tower behind them on Memorial Day 2025.
Photo Date:  5/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 7:31:12 PM
Location:  Waseca, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 2204(GP20C-ECO) CP 2255(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
Waiting At 280
Title:  Waiting At 280
Description:  The BNSF St. Paul Subdivision is a regular racetrack most days, but there are times you can come upon trains cooling their wheels on the old Northern Pacific. Like this westbound was doing down by Highway 280 on a sunny day in May.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:51:00 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 8213(ES44C4) BNSF 6579(ES44C4) BNSF 8449(SD70ACe)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
CSX DPU
Title:  CSX DPU
Description:  A CSX unit pulls DPU duty on an eastbound CPKC freight passing Midway Yard on a beautiful Saturday in May.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:50:25 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 892(ES44AC-H) BNSF 699(C44-9W)
Views:  28   Comments: 0
Eastbound CPKC
Title:  Eastbound CPKC
Description:  An eastbound CPKC freight passes Midway Yard on a fine Saturday afternoon with a lone CP unit on the point.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:49:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 8922(ES44AC)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
Legendary Logo
Title:  Legendary Logo
Description:  The initials may say "BNSF" beneath the 699's cab, but the "cigar band" logo still proudly says "Santa Fe" to the world. Which is as it ought to be, even thirty years after BNSF came to be.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:49:23 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 699(C44-9W)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
Warbonnets Still
Title:  Warbonnets Still
Description:  Well, to paraphrase an old song, "Let the BNSF send 'em where they will/They'll be Santa Fe Warbonnets still"--in this case, at Midway Yard on a fine Saturday afternoon in May.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:48:52 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 699(C44-9W) BNSF 659(C44-9W)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
From Tehachapi To Midway
Title:  From Tehachapi To Midway
Description:  Midway Yard is a long way from the Tehachapi Loop for these Santa Fe veterans yoked into yard duty work at Midway on a gorgeous late spring afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/10/2025  Upload Date: 12/31/2025 6:48:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BNSF 659(C44-9W) BNSF 699(C44-9W)
Views:  60   Comments: 0
Toward The Green Signal
Title:  Toward The Green Signal
Description:  The first afternoon Northstar run to Big Lake heads toward the green signal in the distance as it departs Fridley on a gloomy Boxing Day 2025. Alas, you won't see this scene next year, because Northstar's last miles are just about done.
Photo Date:  12/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:46:39 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
The Conductor Keeps Watch
Title:  The Conductor Keeps Watch
Description:  The conductor monitors the boarding of passengers at Fridley on the first afternoon Northstar run of Boxing Day 2025. Soon this scene will be no more, alas.
Photo Date:  12/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:45:09 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
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Views:  64   Comments: 0
"This Train Got The Disappearing Railroad Blues"
Title:  "This Train Got The Disappearing Railroad Blues"
Description:  The blues Steve Goodman sang about surround the first northbound afternoon Northstar run on an appropriately gloomy Boxing Day 2025 as the train arrives at Fridley. The sands of the hourglass are soon to run out for Minnesota's only commuter rail line, and among the passengers aboard this day were a group taking part in a "last ride" event hosted by Streets.mn.
Photo Date:  12/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:38:09 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNRX 502(MP36PH-3C)
Views:  35   Comments: 0
Awesome Duo
Title:  Awesome Duo
Description:  The awesome duo soaks up some sunshine as it sits on display as part of the joint GNHS/NPHS/SP&SHS 2025 convention on a lovely Saturday afternoon. Curiously, the units air horns were apparently removed before display to keep them safe from theft.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:55:37 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45) NP 3617(SD45)
Views:  67   Comments: 0
Another End Of The Long Hood
Title:  Another End Of The Long Hood
Description:  On NP 3617 in this case.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:03:46 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  NP 3617(SD45)
Views:  41   Comments: 0
End Of The Long Hood
Title:  End Of The Long Hood
Description:  In this case, on GN 400.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 10:03:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
A Legendary Moniker
Title:  A Legendary Moniker
Description:  What else can I say?
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:59:36 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  63   Comments: 0
Another Nose Shot
Title:  Another Nose Shot
Description:  This time of the GN 400.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:58:57 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  29   Comments: 0
Glowing Legend
Title:  Glowing Legend
Description:  The "Hustle Muscle" gleams as the sun's rays pierce the clouds above Union Depot on a fine late summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:58:43 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
Nose Shot
Title:  Nose Shot
Description:  Nose shot of the 3617 during her display at SPUD.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 2:48:51 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NP 3617(SD45)
Views:  46   Comments: 0
Another Hallowed Logo
Title:  Another Hallowed Logo
Description:  Again, what else is there to say?
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:58:19 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  43   Comments: 0
Hallowed Logo
Title:  Hallowed Logo
Description:  What else is there to say, man?
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:56:23 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  29   Comments: 0
A Pair Of Hill Lines Veterans
Title:  A Pair Of Hill Lines Veterans
Description:  Hill Lines veterans GN "Hustle Muscle" and NP 3617 sit on display at St. Paul Union Depot for the joint GNHS/NPHS/SP&SHS convention on a lovely late summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:55:13 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  NP 3617(SD45) GN 400(SD45)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
Still Vibrant
Title:  Still Vibrant
Description:  Yes, I know the 1402 is a little weathered by now, but her paint is still vibrant on a whole.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:39:28 PM
Location:  Eagan, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ILSX 1402(GP15-1) ILSX 1301(GP38-2)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
Day Off For The Eagandale
Title:  Day Off For The Eagandale
Description:  The Eagandale Line's hefty new motive power enjoys the day off on a fine late summer Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:15:31 PM
Location:  Eagan, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ILSX 1301(GP38-2) ILSX 1402(GP15-1)
Views:  40   Comments: 0
Endangered Thoroughbreds
Title:  Endangered Thoroughbreds
Description:  A pair of Norfolk Southern units leads a train (UP? CPKC?) past St. Paul Union Depot on a lovely Saturday afternoon. Who would have thought that, thanks to a mega merger proposal from Union Pacific, the NS Thoroughbred would become endangered?
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 9:14:28 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  NS 4105(AC44C6M) NS 8180(ES44AC)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
Almost To Northtown
Title:  Almost To Northtown
Description:  A BNSF mixed freight is almost to Northtown Yard as it drifts past the Fridley Northstar station on a gloomy Boxing Day 2025.
Photo Date:  12/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 3:05:32 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 2957(GP39-2) BNSF 6794(ES44C4) BNSF 7767(ES44DC)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
Drifting Past Fridley
Title:  Drifting Past Fridley
Description:  A BNSF freight drifts past Fridley station as it approaches Northtown Yard with a somewhat blemished BNSF "swoosh" unit leading two pristine ones.
Photo Date:  12/26/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 3:04:47 PM
Location:  Fridley, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7767(ES44DC) BNSF 6794(ES44C4) BNSF 2957(GP39-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
The Fabulous "Hustle Muscle"
Title:  The Fabulous "Hustle Muscle"
Description:  A Great Northern legend soaks up the late summer sun at Union Depot on a Saturday display for members attending the joint GNHS/NPHS/SP&SHS convention.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 2:50:02 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
Side View Of A Legend
Title:  Side View Of A Legend
Description:  A side view of the GN "Hustle Muscle" during her display at SPUD.
Photo Date:  9/13/2025  Upload Date: 12/30/2025 2:49:17 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  GN 400(SD45)
Views:  49   Comments: 0
Northstar Shops
Title:  Northstar Shops
Description:  The Northstar commuter rail shops as it looked on Labor Day 2025. I suspect the train set at left would be used to transport Twins fans home from the game held this day. What the fate of this facility will be come end of operations is a question that has yet to have an answer.
Photo Date:  9/1/2025  Upload Date: 12/24/2025 3:06:52 PM
Location:  Big Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  32   Comments: 0
Warning Sign
Title:  Warning Sign
Description:  The "high speed trains" warning sign facing the southbound platform at Northstar Big Lake continues to dispense sage advice on Labor Day 2025.
Photo Date:  9/1/2025  Upload Date: 12/24/2025 3:06:38 PM
Location:  Big Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station,Track
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Views:  39   Comments: 0
Not For Much Longer
Title:  Not For Much Longer
Description:  Only a few months remained for Northstar when I snapped this shot of the Big Lake station sign on Labor Day 2025.
Photo Date:  9/1/2025  Upload Date: 12/24/2025 3:06:10 PM
Location:  Big Lake, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Station
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Views:  40   Comments: 0


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