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The engine we've seen by far the most on screens, movie and TV:
Working rail roads and their tracks.
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Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Currently tucked near the big train doors on Track #3 in the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, the tiny Minnetonka has over a century of train stories to share. It is 0-4-0 "tank" steam locomotive and was the first locomotive on the Northern Pacific. It arrived in Duluth MN in 1870 to haul track materials and supplies while track builders pushed westward.Photo: Historical image of the Minnetonka engine hauling logs on newly completed Northern Pacific track.
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More rolling stock and museum exhibits of the LSRM and NSSR in Duluth, Minnesota bravely withstand a mid-March snowstorm on Saturday, March 11th, 2023.
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On March 8, 1855 John Augustus Roebling traveled over his Niagara Suspension Bridge in a trial train crossing made by a 23 ton engine.
During the crossing the heavy train created only a minor 1 inch depression over an area of 100 feet on the bridge’s deck.
At that moment the bridge became the world’s first operational railway suspension bridge.
Image of a train crossing The Niagara Suspension Bridge five years later in 1860 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
During the crossing the heavy train created only a minor 1 inch depression over an area of 100 feet on the bridge’s deck.
At that moment the bridge became the world’s first operational railway suspension bridge.
Image of a train crossing The Niagara Suspension Bridge five years later in 1860 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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Neat video of a crew replacing rail and butt welding the new rails together. I did not know this was done...
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Arly be rippin it up with the train articles & pictures!
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Roebling and as I recall his son engineered the Brooklyn Bridge. Pretty amazing old pic of that bridge.
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BNSF operated a "snow coach" today from Superior to Kelly Lake (Hibbing MN) to deliver a crew for an ore train and pick up crews. The railroad operates these when their contract crew haulers pull their vehicles off the roads due to weather. Green 1943 was split from 1832 and a geep substituted, so this appears to be the Rapids power for the upcoming week. These images show the northbound light units rolling under the former DM&IR Alborn Branch (now a snowmobile trail). Gus went high and I went low. Alborn, MN - March 12, 2023
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No kidding, snow and RR.
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Ya well, I've been home for 2 weeks now in C recovery mode. 
