CP's yard and local power is kept so much cleaner than their road power 😂

Gotta love a local yard

Love the horn on those switchers10:04! 😅

10:00 gotta love that old Hancock 4700 air-whistle!

I really enjoyed watching the local switching! Locals are my favorite part of railroading. The description of whats happening to me makes it so much better and next level up!

That 3002 sure has one hell of a Canadian sounding K3L

Always great scenery as usual!

Another fantastic video!

Sweet video. Love the longer videos that you have been putting out lately

The old Dan Patch Tracks. That’s what I call them whenever I cross over them. 😌

I love the EX Amtrak mail boxcar at 1:59

It was really nice to see 3002 at work, i am building a 7.5 scale gp38 #3005. I only saw it once up near kitchener on. a few years back. keep the videos coming.

Wonderful video with lots of cool catches and rail action. Have a great rest of your Monday.(Steve)

Very great video Douglas! I like the different types of horn I could hear. 👍

Another breaking It friend amazing video 👍🏽

Thanks for the video, i miss the old soo on that line!

As a resident of the Northfield Faribault area I'd love to see Progressive Rail operations in that area.

Another great video Douglas! Do you think you could do a video on the Monticello local?

There's a good bit of MN&S line that seems abandoned between their Bloomington terminal and Lakeville!! How does Progressive Rail connect between the two points?? Thanks for posting this!!

By the way, I love your drone video! That would definitely be something that C vision productions should consider doing with their railroad videos.

On a lot of Saturdays an eastbound BNSF and southbound CP come real close to doing an over-and-under in St. Louis Park. I don’t think the crews should call it the MN&S job since currently the track has som real ballast under it, which was not the case in pre-Soo days. To their credit, Soo Line threw a considerable amount of money at their purchase. Anyone who walked the old MN&S tracks like I did nearly every day knows that good ballast on the old “monkeynuts” was pit-run pea gravel pushed into the dirt. Yet for all that lousy ballast I remember the monster grain drags the MN&S would pull through Crystal in the late afternoons. Four, five or six round-roof SW’s and a lot of the NSC cylindrical hoppers (or Canadian grain cars as they are sometimes known). Because of the afternoon westbound parade of Soo Line traffic those grain drags could be stuck at the junction for quite a while. In the mid 80s I started working at the Creamette pasta plant in New Hope. We were the epitome of captive shipping because pasta manufacturing is a razor thin-margin business and taking semolina by rail was essential to remaining profitable. For many years we took flour in single-bay airslide hoppers. Eventually the company upgraded our decrepit siding enough for the 50-foot double airslides after which a little more work allowed our plant to receive flour in the weirdest cars imaginable. The cars looked like your average slab-sided PS 100 ton hoppers but the bottoms of the three compartments were removed and custom-made airslide membranes and pneumatic outlets were installed in their place. We only had two hose stations to unload with so there was a fair bit of rearranging cars to empty them. Our switcher was a beat-up Michigan front-end loader that could push two empties a hill. I think there were 20 of those cars in the lease pool. Woe be to the railroad if our cars didn’t show up on schedule. We would have to truck flour in which was a money-losing practice that the railroad would have to make good on. The semolina flour they trucked in came from the ADM mill along Hiawatha which is the last mill still open there. If we were running all-out, which we almost always were, we could eat up four or five of those cars in a day. Now they take flour in the P-D hoppers but the siding is still decrepit.

Just letting you know, it seems like progressive rail runs down the old the MNS tracks in South Bloomington usually around noon 1 o’clock on Monday afternoons. I know that’s because when I started making nature videos for my KZfaq channel, I would always hear a train whistle on the tracks as the trains were crossing old Shakopee Road in Bloomington. 🙄😂

Soo 4438 was on the old Luce line. So when I cross those tracks, I called them the Luce Line tracks. And there’s also a spur line that goes between the Dan patch tracks and the Luce line tracks, which I referred to as “the Luce Patch“. 😌

Thx SD for showing skunk hollow. Forgot that's what it was called. Rode the bike over there a couple of weeks ago and the old tracks that lead to it are cut off but Hill is still there. Is that correct?

It would be nice if progressive rail revived service on the old Dan patch line across the old swing bridge to Lakeville. Too bad there’s no consideration for it right now.

@ 11:40... anybody know whatever came of those DM&E units???... did they keep them or did they get rid of them

Does the MN&S job go through the BNSF Northtown Yard?