Logo
 
 
12/28/2024
View Photos
Members
 
 
 
 
Viewing Album:  1960's Time Capsule
 
By:Steve J Rush
Dates:1/1/1965 - 1/1/1972
Album Info:The only thing about opening a time capsule and "Returning to Yesterday" is that the things that you might find there, are perhaps at best, only good for a limited number of people! As to why this might be, About these things I do not know and I can not say, except that Some people will understand and Some people will not! This is just the way it is! Some people dream a different dream--- because they have been told a different story. Thus they see things, in a different way. Some of these pictures I have not looked at or seen in over 40 years! They were taken in the middle to late 1960's by the young stallion that I once was back in those days when I was in high school or when I was working the interlocking towers on the Milwaukee Road near St Paul Yard and the St Paul Union Depot. It will take some time to review and upload the best of the several hundred pictures that there are in this collection. A special thanks to my friend Chris who works on the Amtrak desk on the mighty BNSF. Without his help and generosity, these images as he calls them would possibly not yet have been scanned, and I would not yet be uploading them, and thus not sharing them with you! Most of the dates for these pictures will be a guess or approximation of a date within the middle to late 1960's. I remember the places, but not so much the dates.
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
GN 559
Title:  GN 559
Description:  at 28th street--- date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:35:49 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  GN 559(SD7) GN 567(SD7)
Views:  1375   Comments: 0
GN 567
Title:  GN 567
Description:  at 28th street--- date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:37:03 AM
Location:  Superior, WI
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  GN 567(SD7) GN 559(SD7)
Views:  1238   Comments: 1
NP 704
Title:  NP 704
Description:  at Duluth--- date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:38:50 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  NP 704(S2)
Views:  1492   Comments: 0
NP 707
Title:  NP 707
Description:  at Duluth--- date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1965  Upload Date: 5/8/2010 3:44:36 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  NP 707(S2)
Views:  1257   Comments: 0
"the old days"
Title:  "the old days"
Description:  up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:15:47 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 4304(GP9)
Views:  1050   Comments: 0
"the old days"
Title:  "the old days"
Description:  up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:18:53 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 4304(GP9)
Views:  723   Comments: 0
"the old days"
Title:  "the old days"
Description:  up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:20:08 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CN 4304(GP9)
Views:  592   Comments: 0
"the old days"
Title:  "the old days"
Description:  up north somewhere in Canada--- date and place unknown
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:21:40 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  562   Comments: 0
wooden caboose & kerosene markers
Title:  wooden caboose & kerosene markers
Description:  before the mergers started, before Amtrak and before there were so many computers, in so many places, doing so many things that some people began to wonder if it was such a good thing after all! Now we have NAFTA, open borders and anything can be anywhere at anytime! Enough said, you ever understand or you don't! I'm just glad and happy that I was able to be there and to see these things!
Photo Date:  3/15/1965  Upload Date: 5/12/2010 8:29:35 PM
Location:  Winnipeg, MB
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  762   Comments: 2
East 1
Title:  East 1
Description:  the signals at Newport indicate Diverging Clear meaning a Rock Island transfer is coming home! And if you know where to look, you can see that the Rock Island operator has also lined signals for them to cross the Great River and proceed to Inver Grove!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:08:04 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  711   Comments: 4
East 2
Title:  East 2
Description:  taking the signal at Newport--- "Extra RI 1206 East" returns home!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:50:44 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 1206(GP7) CRIP 328(GP35)
Views:  1311   Comments: 2
West 2
Title:  West 2
Description:  Nice power--- but somewhere they will need to turn the engine consist before they can come home again!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:19:28 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 44(F2A) CRIP 22(F7B)
Views:  1819   Comments: 0
West 1
Title:  West 1
Description:  "Extra RI 44 West" enters the joint Milwaukee/ Burlington double track which was left hand running, back in train order days before the computerized ctc that it now is! How do I know, you ask?! Because I used to dispatch at Newport catching summer vacations on the BN dispatchers extra board at Northtown and also because I worked in three of the five interlocking towers that were on the line between St Paul and Hastings/ Prescott! Back in "train order days" it was fun to work there!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:34:40 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 44(F2A) CRIP 22(F7B)
Views:  1686   Comments: 3
RI 1206 &328
Title:  RI 1206 &328
Description:  Rock Island Transfer returning home leaving the joint double track at Newport, once known as Rock Island Jct!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 12:52:46 AM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 328(GP35) CRIP 1206(GP7)
Views:  1247   Comments: 0
on the turntable
Title:  on the turntable
Description:  facing the same direction, but not wearing the same colors
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:40:59 AM
Location:  Inver Grove, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 1214(GP7) CRIP 1297(GP7)
Views:  1453   Comments: 0
at rest
Title:  at rest
Description:  waiting for a new assignment
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:37:36 AM
Location:  Inver Grove, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 1214(GP7)
Views:  874   Comments: 0
taking a rest
Title:  taking a rest
Description:  engine RI 1297 sits on the turntable
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/18/2010 2:35:26 AM
Location:  Inver Grove, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 1297(GP7)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
East 3
Title:  East 3
Description:  nice caboose and typical of the transfer cabooses that I often saw around St Paul. When they came back from the GN or the NP, they usually came home with 2 cabooses on the rear! But that is a whole other story!
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:25:38 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Winter,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  976   Comments: 4
West 3
Title:  West 3
Description:  yes, heading west is correct. The joint double track was left hand running between St Croix Tower and Division Street.
Photo Date:  2/1/1967  Upload Date: 7/17/2010 4:43:24 PM
Location:  Newport, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  400   Comments: 0
very strange
Title:  very strange
Description:  Why would a CGW engine be at Shoreham on the Soo Line?!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 12:45:27 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 416(RS27) SOO 2410(GP9) CGW 54(RS2)
Views:  2156   Comments: 3
sand & fuel
Title:  sand & fuel
Description:  Everyday things as they were at that time, on the engine service tracks at Shoreham! But it would not always be Geeps and F7s--- one day they would be replaced by newer, bigger and more powerful engines!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 1:22:46 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2408(GP9) SOO 214B(F7A) SOO 740(SD40)
Views:  1088   Comments: 1
SOO 2203A &556
Title:  SOO 2203A &556
Description:  white class lamps are displayed for "an extra train"! That is one which either just arrived or one that is soon to depart. Maybe both are true!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:48:04 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9)
Views:  956   Comments: 3
SOO 2203B &554
Title:  SOO 2203B &554
Description:  sometimes on some railroads--- a "B unit" can be an F7A! This was true on the Soo Line where the 2203A &2203B, were both F7A's! You don't believe it, you say?! Then check my pictures, as they are both here!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:41:29 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203B(F7A) SOO 554(GP9)
Views:  944   Comments: 0
SOO 2408
Title:  SOO 2408
Description:  2 of a kind, a pair--- either way it matters NOT which way you phrase it--- they are just plain nice!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 1:19:34 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2408(GP9)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
SOO 556 &2203A
Title:  SOO 556 &2203A
Description:  GP9's and F7A's mixed--- I loved it! Note the black air tanks on the top of the engine so as to make more room under the frame for a bigger fuel tank!
Photo Date:  6/7/1967  Upload Date: 7/31/2010 2:50:40 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 556(GP9) SOO 2203a(F7A)
Views:  1064   Comments: 0
1 purple and 5 red
Title:  1 purple and 5 red
Description:  6 units at State Street yard stand ready and waiting to be of service. Maybe the paint scheme was not fancy but perhaps it had an appeal because it was simple.
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/23/2010 5:27:16 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW F7(F7A)
Views:  1579   Comments: 1
Ready to run
Title:  Ready to run
Description:  the head brakeman looks back inspecting his train waiting for a highball and permission to leave the yard.
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:19:45 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  1086   Comments: 0
not double track
Title:  not double track
Description:  the other track is the Rock Island main south of the Twin Cities
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:59:25 AM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  951   Comments: 1
CGW 109C
Title:  CGW 109C
Description:  somewhere south of State Street yard and South St Paul
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:34:08 AM
Location:  Hampton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  851   Comments: 1
CGW 116A
Title:  CGW 116A
Description:  time was running out for the "Great Western". The red and purple engines were simple, but nice!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:39:48 AM
Location:  Hampton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 116A(FP7A) CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  1546   Comments: 1
CGW 54
Title:  CGW 54
Description:  place and date unknown
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/23/2010 5:43:40 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives:  CGW 54(RS2)
Views:  1221   Comments: 0
in the yard
Title:  in the yard
Description:  resting between assignments, waiting for the next cut
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:31:01 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  CGW 35(DS44-1000)
Views:  870   Comments: 0
CGW bay window caboose
Title:  CGW bay window caboose
Description:  Besides the caboose, some other things to notice are the signal and communication lines of which there seems to be many! Also the snow flanger sign which was a black star with a white dot on the front side, easy to see in the winter when plowing snow! Perhaps a story in and of itself, if you could only...
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 4:08:19 AM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  438   Comments: 0
Only if
Title:  Only if
Description:  a lot of things were different then and 16 years olds were lucky to be out taking pictures let alone have a really good camera with which to do so!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 2:44:59 AM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  1059   Comments: 2
Leaving on a clear block
Title:  Leaving on a clear block
Description:  CGW 109C & 116A with 2 F7Bs in the middle head out of the siding and into a "clear block"!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:46:06 AM
Location:  Hampton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A) CGW 116A(FP7A)
Views:  1221   Comments: 1
as the engine crew saw it...
Title:  as the engine crew saw it...
Description:  the switch shows to be lined reverse and the block signal indicates proceed!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 1:48:40 AM
Location:  Hampton, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A) CGW 116A(FP7A)
Views:  1118   Comments: 3
Recognize this place
Title:  Recognize this place
Description:  Many changes were arriving and more were soon to come! I have placed this picture to be around St Anthony tower on the GN four track main. Maybe someone else can do better as to the place and time?! The trailing CGW F7A is 113A
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:10:35 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 113A(F3A)
Views:  1012   Comments: 1
Crossing the Rock Island
Title:  Crossing the Rock Island
Description:  I think that this picture is south of Inver Grove towards Rosemount at the CGW/ RI interlocking. You can see the double headed signal protecting the interlocking as the RI main headed south to Iowa and Kansas City. The CGW turned more southeast toward Chicago. When the CNW took over the RI, they now longer used the CGW route between the Twin Cities and Chicago. It was not long before they began ripping it up and tearing it out! Thank God that they did NOT get control of the Milwaukee double track with the Amtrak route between Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. Who knows the things that then might have happened! One thing is perhaps true... the RI main south of the Twin Cities thru Albert Lea would probably been torn up also!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/23/2010 4:51:22 PM
Location:  Inver Grove Heights, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  790   Comments: 0
three CGW F7s with an F3 leading
Title:  three CGW F7s with an F3 leading
Description:  four different railroads, and only one of them exists today! If only that there was to me then a really good camera!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 3:35:26 AM
Location:  Rosemount, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  834   Comments: 1
coming up the hill
Title:  coming up the hill
Description:  a closer look
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 5:50:10 AM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  1631   Comments: 10
for now
Title:  for now
Description:  deciding which one to keep!
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 7:44:31 PM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  1050   Comments: 0
on the main
Title:  on the main
Description:  date unknown--- at Randolph
Photo Date:  6/1/1968  Upload Date: 5/24/2010 5:30:52 AM
Location:  Randolph, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  CGW 109C(F3A)
Views:  989   Comments: 0
the world was surely different then
Title:  the world was surely different then
Description:  it was a different time somewhere between then and now. I think that this is an interesting picture that could almost be a painting, but it is not!
Photo Date:  6/8/1968  Upload Date: 9/23/2010 2:56:58 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NP 170(SW1200)
Views:  1869   Comments: 3
31 cents a gallon
Title:  31 cents a gallon
Description:  It was probably not June 10th, 1968 because that was my operators date on the Milwaukee Road and I was in La Crosse, Wisconsin taking the "rules class" with the Chief Dispatcher back in those days when there was such a person! It was a time when GP9s ran together with F7As and/ or Bs--- and when GP30s & GP35s were new! AND before I forget it was also when gas was 31cents a gallon! That must have been nice you say?! Well considering that people then maybe made 2 or 3 dollars an hour and 5 cents worth of Jelly Beans would last all day--- I suppose all things are relative! But was it better than?! Yes and No is perhaps the correct answer!
Photo Date:  6/10/1968  Upload Date: 7/30/2010 4:03:59 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9) SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  1138   Comments: 1
classic GN
Title:  classic GN
Description:  forces bigger than all of us were and had been working quitely in the background. The "Big Sky Blue" paint scheme was revealed to us in 1967. And so as I graduated from high school, things were beginning to change here also! The old colors that so many knew for so many years were on the way out and the GN goat was now becoming streamlined! In three more years, things would change again with the coming of "the big merger"--- the Burlington Northern! It makes me wonder what Mister Hill would have thought! Would he have been pleased?!
Photo Date:  6/15/1968  Upload Date: 6/4/2010 7:01:00 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  GN 627(GP7) GN 905(GP9RM)
Views:  8577   Comments: 2
out on the main track
Title:  out on the main track
Description:  where ever it was that they were going to or coming from, I dont now remember as it was a very long time ago! But you can see the Soo Line bridge and the Grove Yard engine working at 35th Avenue!
Photo Date:  8/15/1968  Upload Date: 9/15/2010 2:04:42 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  NP 6020A(F7A)
Views:  2074   Comments: 10
they did their work
Title:  they did their work
Description:  and I did mine! The fact that I was there taking pictures did not seem to matter as long as I stayed out of the way! Today, they would stop and run you off!
Photo Date:  10/22/1968  Upload Date: 7/22/2010 4:25:18 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MTFR 301(SW1500) MTFR 300(SW1500)
Views:  724   Comments: 1
Minnesota Transfer
Title:  Minnesota Transfer
Description:  "thru the Heart of the Midway"... and the crew did NOT seem to care that I was there taking that picture! They went about their business and I went about mine! I stayed out of the way and they left me alone! Just imagine even thinking about doing such a thing today! Hello Homeland Security!
Photo Date:  10/22/1968  Upload Date: 7/22/2010 3:58:36 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MTFR 300(SW1500) MTFR 301(SW1500)
Views:  823   Comments: 1
"in the heart of the Midway"
Title:  "in the heart of the Midway"
Description:  Minnesota Transfer alco engine 102 works on the lead. Its a simple paint scheme, but nice!
Photo Date:  10/22/1968  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 12:40:03 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MTFR 102(S4)
Views:  671   Comments: 1
at Soo Line Jct
Title:  at Soo Line Jct
Description:  bending the iron or if you wish reversing the switch on the NP westbound main at Soo Line Jct. The bridge heads to the St Paul freight house. How many freight houses were there in downtown St Paul? Let's count them 1) Soo Line 2) Great Northern 3) Northern Pacific 4) Chicago Great Western 5) the Omaha, not to be confused with the CNW and 6) the Milwaukee Road. The St Paul Union Depot saw passenger trains from these six plus also the Burlington and the Rock Island!
Photo Date:  12/1/1968  Upload Date: 6/9/2010 2:13:20 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Bridge,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 2413(GP9) SOO 556(GP9)
Views:  1278   Comments: 2

Page 1 of 4
1 2 3 4 Next->

Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors		   Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net