CP Yard: (Satellite)
CP Tower: (3D 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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| 3D Satellite |
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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| Dennis DeBruler |
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.
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| Sam Carlson posted At Pigs Eye Yard. Date not known but it was before August 1973. |
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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 |
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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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