CP Yard: (Satellite)
CP Tower: (3D Satellite)
UP Yard: (Satellite)
I document these two yards together because they are adjacent to each other and because the railroads share a joint line between SPUD and the St. Croix Tower.
This article indicates that the official name for the CP yard is now Dunn Yard. (They want to increase the length of six of their tracks from 7,000' to 10,000'. They already added a sixth track without any building permits. CP claims that is OK because it is on their own land. But I have to get a permit to added drainage tile under my basement floor and another to upgrade my electrical service. And both of those project are on my property.) It was Pigs Eye.
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| Sam Carlson posted The 548 waited for us by the Pigs Eye Roundhouse. Andrew Koetz: I was going through some of my dad's shots from Pig's Eye & in looking at the roundhouse sans the "runthrough shop" it took me a few minutes for it to sink in that "HEY DUMMY; the runthrough shop was built in the mid-late 70's. Sam Carlson posted again The August 1973 trip landed us in Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye yard where we were able to stay and enjoy the rare power around there. Here we stood and enjoyed the roundhouse and FM H16-66 548 by the wheel track. Nilwaukee Road had only six of these Junior Trainmasters and at least four of them were here being used as heavy switchers and transfer units. But the 548 wasn't doing any of that. It was just basking peacefully in the limelight. |
CP still has their roundhouse.
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BNSF has replaced its roundhouse with an automobile transloading facility.
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On the west end of the yards was the Hoffman Tower and on the east was the Oakland Tower.
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A current railroad management fad is to rip out the hump yard. It looks like CP still has theirs. Note that there is a tower at the summit of the hump and another alongside the throat of the hump. The hump yard was built in 1951. [Trainorders]
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BNSF/CB&Q is on the left, CP/Milwaukee is in the middle and UP/C&NW/CGW is on the right. All three yards are crammed in between the bluffs and the Mississippi River.
Viral Media posted two images with the comment:
Saint Paul YardsSt. Paul Classification Yard:The yard has 36 classification tracks and nine departure tracks, and six receiving tracks. The facility averages about 1,500 humped cars per day. In 1951 a hump yard was built by the Milwaukee Road at Pigs Eye Lake, just south of Saint Paul. The yard went to Soo line when they assumed control of the ailing Milwaukee in 1985.BNSF Dayton's Bluff Yard: Dayton's Bluff's primary purpose is to serve as a support yard for loading and unloading autos at the auto facility at the west end.UP Hoffman Yard: Located adjacent to both the CP St. Paul Yard and the BNSF Dayton's Bluff Yard, this yard is utilized to receive interchange traffic from both adjacent yards.Track chart - Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority
Marty Jensen: And don’t remember the Q yard being that big.
Marty Jensen: River sub ends at Hastings.
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| Viral Media posted Saint Paul Mainlines & Yards [This part is a copy of the description for the previous post above. Since I'm not paid by the work, I removed the redundant information.] UP South St. Paul Yard: This facility is on the opposite side of the Mississippi River from the Dayton's Bluff and St. Paul yards, so access entails a river crossing. South St. Paul Yard is the UP's primary switching yard within the Twin Cities Terminal. MMNR and TC&W Railroads not shown. Map adapted from Ramsey County Regional Railroad Authority |
Viral Media posted three images with the comment:
Great Western GhostHoffman Yard in Saint Paul Minnesota was built by the Chicago Great Western Railroad. In 1968, CGW merged into the Chicago and North Western in 1968, and then into the Union Pacific in 1995. The yard is between the CP Saint Paul Yard the Mississippi River, running alongside the river levee.The current Union Pacific Railroad Albert Lea Subdivision from Des Moines, the former Rock Island "Spine Line", enters the Twin Cities area and terminates in a yard in South Saint Paul.From this area, traffic to downtown St. Paul takes two routes: one across the Hoffman Swing Bridge, with yards on the east side of the river south of Dayton's Bluff; and the other route using the St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge into downtown St. Paul.
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| Sam Carlson posted At Pigs Eye Yard. Date not known but it was before August 1973. |
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| StormySky Rail Productions posted Canadian Pacific units resting at the diesel facility in Pigs Eye Yard! 🚂 June 2021 |
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| Sam Carlson posted MILW FP7 98A eases past the Pig's Eye Tower in August 1973. Sam Carlson posted Went back to the Tower where yellow FP7 98A was passing the Tower. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Sam's post I presume this was the old yard office for the Milwaukee Pig's Eye Yard. https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9361978,-93.0383233,115a,35y,39.44t/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
Dayton Bluff Yard
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| William Brown posted May 1948. CB&Q's Dayton’s Bluff Yard. A Switch Engine is working an inbound with products from Cat's Montgomery, Illinois Plant. A second Switcher is on the Roundhouse Lead. A Milwaukee Road Baldwin Switcher is working Pigs Eye Yard or the Yard supporting the Milwaukee's Freight House. Downtown Saint Paul is in the distance. Photo Digital Library of America. William Brown posted again with the same comment William Brown posted again with the same comment Fred Hyde: No. This is the original MILW St. Paul yard. Pigs Eye not built until the 1950s. William Brown posted again with the same comment Tom Lyman: Division St. Tower also in this photo. |
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| Nick Benson Flickr BNSF Dayton's Bluff Yard; Saint Paul, MN There was a nice variety of equipment on display in BNSF's Dayton's Bluff Yard this [Aug 22, 2010] afternoon. |
Marty Bernard posted two photos with the comment: "This was the CB&Q's standard waycar until the metal ones came along, seen here in Daytons Bluff Yard, St. Paul, MN on June 20, 1964. I've included the second photo to show you to what it was coupled -- a brand new Northern Pacific U25C the Q probably brought up to St. Paul."
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