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Are there any cut up or otherwise abandoned lines here in the Midwest that now could be useful due to the recent surge in traffic? My nomination is the Minneapolis & St. Louis from Minneapolis, MN, to Peoria, IL. A "Peoria Gateway" would come in handy in terms of easing the pressure on...

The website Bubblews.com is sorely lacking in train content, so I am starting to remedy that deficiency by posting stuff about trains there. One such article is entitled "Kenyon, Minnesota: A Two Railroad Town No More." Kenyon once hosted the rails of the main line of the Chicago Great Wes...

Here is volume five:

http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/b ... lume-five/

Volume six:

http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/b ... olume-six/

And volume seven:

http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/b ... ume-seven/

Hi Drew!

Thanks for the compliment.

A controversy currently rages over whether or not to co-locate freight and light rail together in Minneapolis, MN, along the Kenilworth Corridor which stretches from Cedar Lake to the border with the suburb of St. Louis Park. I just did a photo essay on the most contested part of this corridor, a so...

This train flick is now available for viewing on Netflix. I just watched it yesterday after not seeing it since it was re-run on TV long ago. Sure it is somewhat hokey plot-wise, but I didn't care: the story was nifty and the Amtrak trains looked great! :-D I also got a kick out of Raymond Burr play...

And here is volume four:

http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/b ... lume-four/

Here are the first three of what will be an ongoing series of photo albums by me dedicated to the BNSF Wayzata Sub in the western Twin City metro area: http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/bnsf-wayzata-sub-volume-one/ http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/bnsf-wayzata-sub-volume-two/ http://www.ton...

Here are a pair of photo albums by me that take you from 46th Street to the Princess Depot in Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis, along the ex-Milwaukee Road line that once crossed below Fort Snelling but now ends at the Princess: Album one: http://www.tonyheld.hoboandbowser.net/the-old-milwaukee-road-from...

Saw this on Railway Age today: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/short-lines/short-line-opposes-twin-cities-lrt-proposal.html?channel=94 TC&W's new news blog has some interesting stuff on it as well about this as well: http://tcwr.net/category/latest-news/ Bascially, the county that wa...

But isn't the small yard at Tracy usually full of cars for Tracy Cement and ergo would require the addition of a couple more tracks for interchange purposes?

Get a load of this: CP wants to spin-off the DM&E west of Tracy, MN: http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/class-i/cp-seeks-expressions-of-interest-for-the-dme-west-end.html?channel=50 Now why on earth spin it off from Tracy and not from Winona like the Chicago and North Western did? It ma...

For now, the main line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis remains between Cedar Lake Junction in Minneapolis to Bass Lake Yard in St. Louis Park. It will not last for much longer thanks to the corridor it occupies slated to become part of a light rail transit route out to the southwest suburbs of th...

1.4 miles of ex-Chicago Great Western track survive in operation in Faribault, Minnesota thanks to plentiful on-line industry that made the Chicago and North Western keep serving customers even after the line out of town on both ends was abandoned. I recently posted a photo essay about this line to ...

The CGW and M&St.L routes were the ones on my mind.