TC&W Transfer
After shooting this Twin Cities and Western Railroad transfer departing CPKC's St. Paul yard as seen here: flic.kr/p/2oGDatk we tried to chase them, but they absolutely FLEW across town and we only barely made it in time to grab one more shot of them. They are crossing the Mississippi River at about MP 10.6 BNSF's ex Great Northern Wayzata Sub mainline in this view looking down off the North 1st Street overpass in downtown Minneapolis as they make their way toward Cedar Lake Junction ultimately headed back to Hopkins on home rails of their former Milwaukee Road mainline. The track diverging in the foreground leads to the Target Field Station platforms used by Northstar commuter trains.
The matching quartet of rebuilt GP38-2s (all rebuilt from former NS high hood straight GP38s of NW or SOU provenance) is marred only by unrepainted TCWR 3516 still in its leaser scheme. This is a unique rebuilt GP20C that was originally built as a GP20 in
Feb. 1961 as CBQ 901 and probably passed this way in a past life dressed in Cascade Green!
If you'd like to learn a bit more about this successful regional check out this nice overview from Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/trn/railroads/profiles/short-lines/twin-ci...
And this map on the company's own web page:
tcwr.net/new-to-tcw/where-we-move/
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saturday May 6, 2023
TC&W Transfer
After shooting this Twin Cities and Western Railroad transfer departing CPKC's St. Paul yard as seen here: flic.kr/p/2oGDatk we tried to chase them, but they absolutely FLEW across town and we only barely made it in time to grab one more shot of them. They are crossing the Mississippi River at about MP 10.6 BNSF's ex Great Northern Wayzata Sub mainline in this view looking down off the North 1st Street overpass in downtown Minneapolis as they make their way toward Cedar Lake Junction ultimately headed back to Hopkins on home rails of their former Milwaukee Road mainline. The track diverging in the foreground leads to the Target Field Station platforms used by Northstar commuter trains.
The matching quartet of rebuilt GP38-2s (all rebuilt from former NS high hood straight GP38s of NW or SOU provenance) is marred only by unrepainted TCWR 3516 still in its leaser scheme. This is a unique rebuilt GP20C that was originally built as a GP20 in
Feb. 1961 as CBQ 901 and probably passed this way in a past life dressed in Cascade Green!
If you'd like to learn a bit more about this successful regional check out this nice overview from Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/trn/railroads/profiles/short-lines/twin-ci...
And this map on the company's own web page:
tcwr.net/new-to-tcw/where-we-move/
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saturday May 6, 2023