Rush City, home of the St. Croix Valley Railroad, Horizon Milling and Ruth Duccini. Who is Ruth Duccini? She is one of the last three surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
St. Croix Valley's geeps warm up outside their depot after the area received a nice early spring snowfall.
Resting over the weekend but tomorrow SCXY 1363 will be hard at work. She was originally built as Great Northern GP-9 #676.
No work until Monday for these two units, a pair of recently repainted NP heritage livery GP9's that hang out near the headquarters of the St. Croix Valley Railroad on a nice Saturday morning in ... (more)
SCXY 1363 sits after work hours by its home by St. Croix Valley's main office and Horizon Milling, Rush City's most prominent city structure.
St. Croix 1363 and recently arrived 1352 rest next to the depot prior to their next call to duty tomorrow morning. Even the depot is painted in an NP-inspired two-tone brown to reflect the line's... (more)
The Pride of the "Skally Line" 1363 and its new partner GP10 1352, both showing their NP Heritage paint schemes.
The St. Croix Valley Railroad is all done for the week switching and spotting cars along a former NP stretch of tracks known as the "Skally" line so they park their engine and wait for Monday to a... (more)
The recently repainted, with a nod to it's NP heritage, GP9 of the St. Croix Valley Railroad operates on a section of NP's former "Skally Line" from Hinckley, MN to Rush City, MN switching various... (more)
Its 1963 and an NP GP9 is resting near the depot after its shift working the yard... Thats my story and im stickin to it!
The St. Croix Valley Railroad's first run since spring is led by their newly repainted GP7, which wears the Northern Pacific's final freight scheme. With the line out of service due to a bridge fa... (more)
