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Photo ID: 290174

Locomotive: Southern Pacific Railroad Steam 4-8-4	Location/Date of Photo: Harrison St. Shop Minneapolis Jct., Minnesota, USA July 09, 2009
Locomotive No./Train ID SP 4449 AMTK 942-09	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: MILW 261 engineer Steve Sandberg is directing SP 4449 with BNSF 52 800665 "Glorieta Pass", NSR 31 800195 "Minnesota River", and MKT 403 800393 to the Harrison St. Shop building. The Amtrak unit has been cut-off the train as it will take MILW "Super Dome" 53 and the remaining passenger cars to the Amtrak Midway depot in St. Paul while SP 4449 is stored temporarily inside the Harrison St. shop building.

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Photo ID: 285759

Locomotive: Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SDP40	Location/Date of Photo: CN Dresser Sub. Withrow, Minnesota, USA May 31, 2009
Locomotive No./Train ID BNSF 6327 MNTX 6327	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: BNSF SDP40 6327 SAVED!. BNSF Railway donated BNSF 6327 to the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The 6327 (nee-GN 325) is one of six former GN SDP40s 320-325 built in 1966. MTM took delivey on May 31, 2009, and this photo shows the 6327 running light on its way to Osceola, WI for service on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway.

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Photo ID: 282632

Locomotive: Southern Pacific Railroad Steam 4-8-4	Location/Date of Photo: Union Station Portland, Oregon, USA May 05, 1984
Locomotive No./Train ID SP 4449 Train No. 9	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD'S FAIR DAYLIGHT. The Union Station clock tower shows 6:44AM as SP 4449 and its 13-car all Daylight consist sit unattended waiting for its departure to New Orleans, LA and the 1984 Louisiana World's Fair. SP 4449 is displaying the number "9" in its train indicator board for Train No. 9 the southbound Shasta Daylight for the leg from Portland, OR to Sacramento, CA. At this time, SP 4449's tender was lettered with the large 1946 SP common standard 20" Roman "SOUTHERN PACIFIC" lettering in the orange band in the middle of the tender.

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Photo ID: 274701

Locomotive: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island) GE U30C	Location/Date of Photo: HB&T's Milby St. Facility Houston, Texas, USA December 05, 1973
Locomotive No./Train ID RI 4584 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: ROCK ISLAND Recollections. RI 4584 is less than two months old in this photo at HB&T's Milby St. diesel facility in Houston. RI's 18 U30Cs 4582-4599 were delivered October-December 1973 in the red and yellow speed-lettered ROCK ISLAND scheme; and originally carried the GE XR SERIES stencil on the frame adjacent to the GE builder's plate near the front 'F' on the Conductor's side. RI's U30Cs were some of GE's "EXtra Reliable" internal upgrades to it's U30 line. The Rock Island was no longer an operating railroad after March 31, 1980; and it's U30Cs were returned to lessor North American Car but never ran again and were eventually scrapped. See my photo of RI F9Ms 4153-4150 also in the red and yellow speed-lettered ROCK ISLAND paint scheme.

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Photo ID: 272438

Locomotive: Chicago & North Western Railroad Alco C425	Location/Date of Photo: CNW Waseca Sub. Waseca, Minnesota, USA January 24, 1981
Locomotive No./Train ID CNW 404 482	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Land Barge - one of C&NW's lengthy and lumbering freight trains. This eastbound 482 train, strung out across the horizon, was tied-down at this grade crossing just west of the Waseca yard. The motive power consist is seven units: C425 404-RS slug BU41-C425 402-GP7-RS32-SD18-RS32. CNW's four C425s 401-404 were the last C425s built with 50% of them shown here. They were configured as two C425/RS slug (converted RS3)/C425 sets operating on the "ALCO Line" between Huron, SD and Winona, MN at this time. The CNW C425s were transferred to Escanaba, MI later in the year. This photo appears in the book "DAKOTA, MINNESOTA & EASTERN A Modern Granger Railroad" by Andy Cummings and Jerry Huddleston published in 2005.

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Photo ID: 269916

Locomotive: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) ATSF SWBLW	Location/Date of Photo: PTRA Diesel Facility Houston, Texas, USA December 31, 1972
Locomotive No./Train ID ATSF 2450 Leased to PTRA	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: BNSF SWBLW 1460, Santa Fe's one-of-a-kind Baldwin VO-1000 rebuild 'BEEP', was retired after almost forty years of service on the Santa Fe and BNSF and donated to the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow, CA. ATSF 2450 was its original number when released from remanufacturing at Santa Fe's Cleburne Texas shops in December 1970. During the early 1970s it was leased to the Port Terminal Railroad Association (PTRA) in Houston, TX. The 'BEEP' was renumbered ATSF 1160 in August 1974, then to ATSF 1460 in January 1977; and it kept that same number into the BNSF era until retirement. In this photo of ATSF 2450, it is still bearing its original round Baldwin builder's plate which is visible on the side frame just ahead of the designated front 'F'.

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Photo ID: 268172

Locomotive: Canadian Pacific Railway EMD SD40-2F	Location/Date of Photo: Shoreham Shops Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA August 21, 1993
Locomotive No./Train ID CP 9000 Employees Open House	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: CP "Red Barn" 9000 is on display for the CP employees open house at the former SOO Shoreham Shops. CP 9000 is one of only two CP SD40-2Fs painted in the CP Rail System "Dual Flag" "Action Red" paint scheme; and at this time has not been retro-fitted with a port-hole in the nose door.

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Photo ID: 265620

Locomotive: Soo Line EMD SD60	Location/Date of Photo: Unknown Newport, Minnesota, USA June 16, 1989
Locomotive No./Train ID SOO 6021 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: When they were new! First unit of the March 1989 SOO SD60 delivery 6021-6041 - no ditch-lights.

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Photo ID: 252897

Locomotive: Union Pacific Steam 4-6-6-4	Location/Date of Photo: UP Clinton Sub. Nevada, Iowa, USA September 25, 2008
Locomotive No./Train ID UP 3985 SBOMC25	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: UP 3985 made a brief stop at Ames and is now steaming at track speed with the Twin Cities Limited Tour just west of Nevada heading for E. KC Jct and north on the "Spine Line" to Mason City.

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Photo ID: 250507

Locomotive: Minnesota Transportation Museum EMD SD9	Location/Date of Photo: CN Norh Div. Dresser Sub. MP 38.9 Cedar Bend, Wisconsin, USA September 08, 2008
Locomotive No./Train ID BN 6234 Photo Charter	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: A 4-8-4, Not Exactly!. That's MILW 261 engineer Steve Sandberg our engineer on Steve Glischinski's 1970's era photo freight. From the cab, Steve is admiring the concrete piers that support the drawbridge. MNTX 6234 passes on the east end of the Cedar Bend drawbridge over the St. Croix River during one of several photo run-bys at this location.

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Photo ID: 234067

Locomotive: Minnesota Transportation Museum EMD SD9	Location/Date of Photo: Osceola Depot Osceola, Wisconsin, USA May 03, 2008
Locomotive No./Train ID MNTX 6234 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: First Revenue Run in new BN paint scheme. MNTX 6234 is ready to make its first revenue run of the season from the Osceola, WI depot. Both MNTX 6234 and MNTX GP7 559 pulled the train today. The mail crane with the station name Osceola is left of the main track. The former Soo Line depot was built in 1916 and has been completely restored. The semaphore signal does not govern. See my roster photo of BN 6234 with its new "Cascade" Green paint after returning from WSOR's Horicon paint shop last December.

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Photo ID: 216246

Locomotive: Burlington Northern Railroad EMD SD9	Location/Date of Photo: MTM's Jackson St. Roundhouse Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA December 20, 2007
Locomotive No./Train ID BN 6234 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: BN Heritage - NEW Paint. BN SD9 6234 (nee-C&S 839 b/d 4-59) has just returned from Wisconsin & Southern's Horicon, WI paint shop with a new coat of BN "Cascade" Green and retaining the BN 6234 road number. The 6234 also received a complete cab interior repaint. The MNTX FRA reporting mark has not yet been applied. As delivered to MTM by BNSF in October 2003, see my photo of BNSF 6234. MNTX 6234 is in regular service pulling weekend train rides from Osceola, WI on CN's North Division Dresser Sub.

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Photo ID: 212063

Locomotive: Union Pacific DDA40X	Location/Date of Photo: Unknown Hood River, Oregon, USA June 12, 1976
Locomotive No./Train ID UP 6936 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: UP DDA40X CENTENNIAL 6936 in Freight Service - 1976. UP DDA40X 6936, UP SD40-2H "Fast Forty" 8012 and UP DDA40X 6923 westbound on priority TOFC. During the mid to late 1970s, two Centennials bracketing a 8000-series high-geared SD40-2H "Fast Forty" were the normal motive power combination on high-speed priority UP TOFC trains.

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Photo ID: 211097

Locomotive: Burlington Northern Railroad EMD SDP40	Location/Date of Photo: BN Auburn Yard Auburn, Washington, USA June 13, 1976
Locomotive No./Train ID BN 1976 Unknown	Photographer: Ralph Back Contact Ralph Back + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Spirit of '76' 1976. The second BN "Bicentennial" 1976, nee-GN 323/BN 9853/6397. Renumbered back to BN 6397 in January 1979. Only 20 SDP40s built - six for GN and fourteen for NdeM.

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