Location for "E7's on the Empire Builder" photo of day

[jridge]

Anyone know were today's [2/9/2011] (soon to be yesterday's) photo of the day was photographed?

Thanks

[wjstix]

I'd guess somewhere in the "Midway" area, on the GN mainline between St.Paul and Minneapolis. I seem to remember seeing a similar color pic in a book on the GN, IIRC the caption identified it as Midway.

[wjstix]

Ya I checked, it's pages 346-47 of the Wood's "The Great Northern Railway: A Pictorial Study". It shows a large color pic similar to the pic of the day only taken from track level. It shows E-7 504, so it's the same engine - in fact if you look carefully you can see the same fireman in the window of the diesel in both pics. The caption identifies it as being taken "between Minneapolis and St.Paul". It was a staged publicity GN company photo shoot (i.e., it's not an "action photo") showing the new 1947 streamlined Empire Builder (although the E-7s came in 1945; it took until 1947 for GN to get streamlined cars due to the backlog of demand at the car builder's.)

I was unable to find the color pic online anywhere, but maybe someone else knows where it might be.

 

[jridge]

STIX-

thanks for checking.