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A Great Northern SD9 switching ore cars near Duluth MN in the GN ore yards in 1969. |
| Description: |
BNSF operates the GN ore lines to this day with an ore dock near Duluth MN, and runs daily ore trains to Chitown. Four SD9s remain in service on the BNSF in 2012. #1550-1553. Search the archive for BNSF 1553. GN once had 4 ore docks in Duluth harbor each 2,400 feet long they remain in the water today, last used by the BN in 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
7/9/1969 Upload Date: 6/8/2012 11:02:33 PM |
| Location: |
Duluth, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GN 556(SD7) |
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1937 Comments: 0 |
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GN SD9 at Mpls Jct MN in 1955. |
| Description: |
This was taken near the end of steam during the transition period. For a while diesels worked along side and with steam. During the fall grain rush some steam engines were pulled out of retirement up to 1958. SD9s survived on the BNSF up to 2011, and some will continue to serve as slugs. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1955 Upload Date: 12/7/2011 11:01:15 AM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
GN 559(SD7) |
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2000 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A Great Northern SD9 switching in Mpls MN in July 1965. |
| Description: |
These GN wooden cabooses survived into BN merger years in the 1970s. 4 SD9s are still working on the BNSF in 2012 as numbers #1550-1553. Search the archive for BNSF 1553 |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1965 Upload Date: 6/11/2012 3:15:40 PM |
| Location: |
Saint Paul, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GN 568(SD7) |
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1507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Great Northern SD9 leaving Mpls MN in 1969. |
| Description: |
Note the GN SD9 is running long hood forward leading the train. This train had left Union Yard off Hwy 280 by the University of MN. That was the GNs main large yard on the east end of the GN system. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1969 Upload Date: 1/19/2012 2:40:34 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
GN 569(SD7) |
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1863 Comments: 1 |
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A former Great Northern SD9 at a grain elevator near Wilmar MN in 2013. |
| Description: |
Still running in 2013. |
| Photo Date: |
10/12/2013 Upload Date: 10/15/2013 1:24:46 PM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CRGX 6008(SD7) |
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323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Great Northern SD9s at Mpls MN 1973 after the BN merger. |
| Description: |
GN ordered their SD9s without dynamic brakes. The blue scheme started around 1967. SD9s served on the BNSF up to 2011, and some serve as slugs in 2012. SD9s once locked couplers with steam engines at the end of steam in the mid 1950s. Some SD9s remained in GN paint until 1978. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/1974 Upload Date: 2/8/2012 11:44:22 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6017(SD7) BN 6019(SD7) |
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659 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF SD9s running a transfer from Northtown into St Paul Daytons Bluff yard in 1998. |
| Description: |
The BNSF used SD9s on transfers from Mpls MN Northtown yard to St Paul Daytons bluff yard. SD9s ran from the 1950s on the GN until 2011 on the BNSF. These are both GN SD9s, note no dynamic brakes. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1998 Upload Date: 1/26/2012 7:11:03 AM |
| Location: |
Minneapolis, MN |
| Author: |
S Kotnour |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BN 6020(SD7) BN 6022(SD7) |
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829 Comments: 1 |
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