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City of
Minneapolis
The City of Minneapolis owns it's own locomotive to
switch the River Services Port of Minneapolis near the intersection of
Washington and Dowling in North Mpls. This unit works the area with grain and
rock transload as it moves to river barge for shipping down river from the
northern most shipping port on the Mississippi... They use a SW1500 that
started as Minnesota Transfer 301 - after retirement there it simply moved from
St Paul to Minneapolis keeping the same colors and number.
SW1500
#301 sits in the shed with downtown in the background.
Andy
Inserra photos
[who interns for the city in Paving Construction where there
is no railroading but the LRT is outside our yard at Hiawatha and
26th...]
Here is another view, this time in Oct 91. It
appears to have recieved some care since that time as the door is no londer
duct taped shut and the front end isn't covered in tarps. Jim Shepard photo,
Keith Ardinger collection
Former Power
Here is their old S2 that used to be employed
by the City. Seen Jan 1 1975 it now works on the MD&W
Roger Bee photo, Keith Ardinger
collection
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