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Archive of posts filed under the Locomotives category.

Minnesota Commercial Railroad Midway Yard in St. Paul

This is video from around 8am Tuesday, August 10, 2010 and is taken from the Transfer Road/Pierce Butler bridge overlooking the Minnesota Commercial Midway yard. There are walking platforms on both sides of the bridge. I had just missed the Amtrak. Featured is a locomotive gathering cars (perhaps for the Hugo line?) another locomotive coming [...]

Eastbound Coal Train Picture Sequence

The following is a sequence of photos taken June 4, 2009, in Fremont, Nebraska of an eastbound Union Pacific coal train. There were two engines in front and one trailing. I was able to gather engine information just by doing a Google search for keywords “Union Pacific 5967″ and “Union Pacific 6684.” As always, RailPictures.net [...]

Continuing on with YouTube… another BNSF (but less windy)

I was so ecstatic blogging about my first video posted to YouTube, I didn’t really think about telling the story. When I was back in Nebraska a few weeks ago, my friend, Grant, and I spent an afternoon train-watching around Fremont. Our first trip was north on Luther Road to Nickerson, where the road crossed [...]