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- The MN&S Job runs on the northern portion of the former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern Railway. This local operates out of Humboldt Yard, works the line, and interchanges with Progressive Rail before heading back.
In this video, we'll follow a few different MN&S Jobs, and watch it make its way down the line, switches out areas, interchanges, and works its way back. Along the way, we'll get a short history of places a long the route, and see how other places have changed in the past few years. The line cuts through neighborhoods, backyards, parks, and other areas is it goes about its way. Its a neat line, full of great photo opportunities, and history!
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CP's yard and local power is kept so much cleaner than their road power 😂
I know one time I saw one so dirty I thought it was an NS unit 😂
Generally speaking, the local power looks MUCH better then their road units. Its a nice change of pace. Thank you for watching!
HA... i think CP Rails idea of positive corporate imaging extends only as far as putting clean engines and clean railcars on the cover of their quarterly/yearly investor report booklets... after that, it's "dirty engine business" as usual.
@@25mfd It’s harder to hit a moving target and their road power only hits the shop for any length of time every 90 days for their inspections.
I really enjoyed watching the local switching! Locals are my favorite part of railroading. The description of whats happening to me makes it so much better and next level up!
Thank you very much, and glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to make this type of video, and more of these are in the works.
That 3002 sure has one hell of a Canadian sounding K3L
So true
It sounds GREAT, and is a nice change from the horns the GP20s have. Thanks for watching!
Gotta love a local yard
These opps have more character to them, and are neat to see working neighborhoods. Thanks for watching! :D
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gotta love that old Hancock 4700 air-whistle!
I *love* those type of horns! More of those to come in a future PGR video. :D Thanks for the comment, and watching!
Love the horn on those switchers10:04! 😅
Glad you liked that part! The original MN&S had those style of horns, and they sound AMAZING! Progressive Rail does an amazing job with operations, and keeping the spirit of the MN&S alive.
The old Dan Patch Tracks. That’s what I call them whenever I cross over them. 😌
Always great scenery as usual!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the kind words!
Another fantastic video!
Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the kind words! This is a neat local, but VERY undershoot. Thanks for watching!
Wonderful video with lots of cool catches and rail action. Have a great rest of your Monday.(Steve)
Many thanks, and glad you enjoyed the video! Have a wonderful week as well.
@@SD457500 Your very welcome and thank you very much also.
It was really nice to see 3002 at work, i am building a 7.5 scale gp38 #3005. I only saw it once up near kitchener on. a few years back. keep the videos coming.
Oh neat! I like these GP38ACs; they look and sound great, evening all these years after they were built. I have some video of this leading out on the mainline...might post it soon. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video, i miss the old soo on that line!
Glad you enjoyed it, and that makes two of us! It's mind blowing how fast things can change trackside.
Very great video Douglas! I like the different types of horn I could hear. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! There was quite a nice variety of them in this video. Thanks for watching!
As a resident of the Northfield Faribault area I'd love to see Progressive Rail operations in that area.
Coming soon on those! Those are in the works, and later this year, I'll have another video of two of them. Thank you for watching!
Here is a video of the Northfield to Lakeville Train: th-cam.com/video/6UNFOk_tA9w/w-d-xo.html
Sweet video. Love the longer videos that you have been putting out lately
Me too
More to come, and I appreciate the feedback on it. While they are a lot more work, they are well worth the effort! Thank you for watching!
More like those to come!
I love the EX Amtrak mail boxcar at 1:59
Good eye! Those are regulars on the MN&S Job, and neat to see on this local. Thank you for the comment, and watching!
Another breaking It friend amazing video 👍🏽
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video! I appreciate the kind words, and thank you for the comment.
Another great video Douglas! Do you think you could do a video on the Monticello local?
Glad you enjoyed the video!! I have some older clips I should post, and I've been meaning to shoot a new one. Its on the to do list. :D Thanks for watching!
By the way, I love your drone video! That would definitely be something that C vision productions should consider doing with their railroad videos.
There's a good bit of MN&S line that seems abandoned between their Bloomington terminal and Lakeville!! How does Progressive Rail connect between the two points?? Thanks for posting this!!
Good question! That track is out of service, and owned by CPKC. While it hasn't seen a train in years, it is *not* abandoned. Progressive Rail serves the southern part of the line via Northfield to Lakeville, and back. That line is VERY active. Here is a link to that line: th-cam.com/video/6UNFOk_tA9w/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for watching!
On a lot of Saturdays an eastbound BNSF and southbound CP come real close to doing an over-and-under in St. Louis Park. I don’t think the crews should call it the MN&S job since currently the track has som real ballast under it, which was not the case in pre-Soo days. To their credit, Soo Line threw a considerable amount of money at their purchase. Anyone who walked the old MN&S tracks like I did nearly every day knows that good ballast on the old “monkeynuts” was pit-run pea gravel pushed into the dirt. Yet for all that lousy ballast I remember the monster grain drags the MN&S would pull through Crystal in the late afternoons. Four, five or six round-roof SW’s and a lot of the NSC cylindrical hoppers (or Canadian grain cars as they are sometimes known). Because of the afternoon westbound parade of Soo Line traffic those grain drags could be stuck at the junction for quite a while. In the mid 80s I started working at the Creamette pasta plant in New Hope. We were the epitome of captive shipping because pasta manufacturing is a razor thin-margin business and taking semolina by rail was essential to remaining profitable. For many years we took flour in single-bay airslide hoppers. Eventually the company upgraded our decrepit siding enough for the 50-foot double airslides after which a little more work allowed our plant to receive flour in the weirdest cars imaginable. The cars looked like your average slab-sided PS 100 ton hoppers but the bottoms of the three compartments were removed and custom-made airslide membranes and pneumatic outlets were installed in their place. We only had two hose stations to unload with so there was a fair bit of rearranging cars to empty them. Our switcher was a beat-up Michigan front-end loader that could push two empties a hill. I think there were 20 of those cars in the lease pool. Woe be to the railroad if our cars didn’t show up on schedule. We would have to truck flour in which was a money-losing practice that the railroad would have to make good on. The semolina flour they trucked in came from the ADM mill along Hiawatha which is the last mill still open there. If we were running all-out, which we almost always were, we could eat up four or five of those cars in a day. Now they take flour in the P-D hoppers but the siding is still decrepit.
Thx SD for showing skunk hollow. Forgot that's what it was called. Rode the bike over there a couple of weeks ago and the old tracks that lead to it are cut off but Hill is still there. Is that correct?
That is correct; the Milw connection at Skunk Hollow is long gone, but the connection with the MN&S is still alive and well for the time being. As part of the light rail project, a new connection was built with the MNS and TCWR. Thanks for watching!
Just letting you know, it seems like progressive rail runs down the old the MNS tracks in South Bloomington usually around noon 1 o’clock on Monday afternoons. I know that’s because when I started making nature videos for my TH-cam channel, I would always hear a train whistle on the tracks as the trains were crossing old Shakopee Road in Bloomington. 🙄😂
Soo 4438 was on the old Luce line. So when I cross those tracks, I called them the Luce Line tracks. And there’s also a spur line that goes between the Dan patch tracks and the Luce line tracks, which I referred to as “the Luce Patch“. 😌
It would be nice if progressive rail revived service on the old Dan patch line across the old swing bridge to Lakeville. Too bad there’s no consideration for it right now.
Do you have any video of the Bloomington to Richfield Yards run? I do not know when that ended.
@@Rifraph48 The route ran by Progressive Rail? Sure do! Look up Progressive Rails Dan Patch Line on my channel, and you'll see a few of them!
@ 11:40... anybody know whatever came of those DM&E units???... did they keep them or did they get rid of them
Those are all long gone, and off of the CPKC roster. They were either sold, or scrapped. :/ DME 3801 became PGR 1311. Thanks for watching!
Does the MN&S job go through the BNSF Northtown Yard?
No
It does not, but in the days of the MN&S, they had a job which did go to NTW and back. Thank you for watching!
@@SD457500 I thought it did because at Northtown I always see similar power to what is in the video (geeps) leading short trains through the same track every time. The geeps are always CP, too.
@BNSF8500yt That's likely from the CPBN Transfer. They run daily from CPs STP Yard, to Northtown Yard.
@@SD457500 ok, thanks. Finally I know what it is. *I can now sleep without thinking about what it could be*