I've seen some 'CP Rail" SD's working the hump at Pig's Eye yard in St.Paul recently. Unfortunately I'm usually driving by at 60 MPH so haven't been able to record a no. to look up what engine it is, but they appear to be c.1970's SD units.
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I've seen some 'CP Rail" SD's working the hump at Pig's Eye yard in St.Paul recently. Unfortunately I'm usually driving by at 60 MPH so haven't been able to record a no. to look up what engine it is, but they appear to be c.1970's SD units.
I've seen a "bandit" MP-15 within the last few weeks at Pig's Eye yard southeast of downtown St.Paul MN. There's also still at least one or two MP-15s in Soo Line paint.
Redundant is probably the right word. What is it they said about Iowa, that at one time (around 1900) no place in Iowa was more than 8 miles or 10 miles from a railroad line?? Once trucks came in, you just didn't need that intricate cobweb of rail lines. IIRC the CGW and CNW BOTH served the big Horm...
Keep in mind that the Panic of 1893 created a deep depression, some would say worse than the "Great Depression" of the 1930's. I'm sure most railroads were happy just to be able to keep their heads above water and not be one of the many roads to declare bankruptcy, and may not have been an...
FWIW although you want to have an accurate layout based on the P&LE in 1952, I'd leave yourself a little leeway. Very few folks are going to know if a P&LE RS-3 is right for 1952 or not, and it certainly will look right since RS-3 production started in 1950. Similarly, to me at least, seeing...
Just to follow up on Minneapolitan's post. In the pic of the old Rock Island bridge, Inver Grove is on the right (west). To the east, the track connects with the joint Milwaukee / CB&Q line running between the west bank of the Mississippi river and Highway 61. Rock Island trains heading north wo...
This is a restored one, but I think it's what you're talking about??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubeck/6983568370/
The Milwaukee narrow gauge lines in southeast Minnesota were originally the Minnesota Midland (there's still a "Midland Junction" you go thru on the Empire Builder) and the Caledonia Mississippi & Western. I believe both lines were built in the 1870's and were bought by the Milwaukee i...
Re the Sunday papers, I think in a lot of places the "big city" papers used to have an early Sunday edition (sometimes called a "blue streak" edition) that they would ship out by rail to smaller towns so they could be sold or distributed on Sunday. I think a lot of people bought ...
Interesting subject, but whoever posted it to YouTube either needs to get a tripod or a scanner....
Just to back up a little, pre-NAFTA in the nineties, US railroads and other companies had to be primarily owned by US investors. CP owned I believe the largest stake in the Soo Line, but they could only own 49.9%, the 50.1% "majority" had to be US owners / investors. So although CP had a l...
If I get a chance I'll check Luecke's "Milwaukee Road in Minnesota" to be sure, but I'd assume through freights (i.e. Chicago to Seattle) would come up the mainline from Chicago along the Mississippi to Short Line Hill and across the bridge, then go on the below-grade line ("the trenc...
Also, Como Shops (now Bandanna Square?) is in NE, not NW, St. Paul. Les Actually, northwest would be more correct, just to nitpick a little. It's west-northwest of downtown St.Paul. It's in the "Midway" area, about halfway between downtown Minneapolis and downtown St.Paul, which are about...
"New York Central Railroad" by Solomon/Schafer is a good one with plenty of photos. It might still be available in libraries (you remember those, right?). An interesting thing about that book is that after it first came out, the authors found a large cache of NYC railroad pictures, so may...
I do recall seeing a Minneapolis, Anoka, and Cuyuna Range boxcab sitting in the wye area east of SPUD. I think it was blue and white. That engine - well, maybe the whole MA&CR?? - ended up being owned by Great Northern. I can't remember which video/DVD it's on but I know there's one I have take...