Born in Hibbing, lived in Duluth and St. Paul. Now I live in Grantsburg, WI half way between the Twin Cities and the Twin Ports and 5 miles from the Minnesota border. I work in Minnesota.
Carver County.
Grew up east of Green Bay on the branch to Sturgeon Bay.
Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western 2-8-0 49 actually traveled through my hometown, but many years before I was born.
And yes, I am an Owner of the 13-Time World Champion Green Bay Packers.
I am on this side of the St. Croix and Mississippi doing missionary work with Vikings fans (but otherwise root for the Timberwolves, Wild and Twins).
You can take the guy out of the state, but you can't take the cheese out of the guy.
KGBW 49 at Green Bay in 1934...turned out by ALCO Schenectady in 1929, one of the later 2-8-0 Consolidations to be constructed in the US for US use - only Great Western 60 came later (of course with exception of WWII USA 2-8-0 locomotives that ended up being kept in the US)...
Originally #49, renumbered to 350...front line road power until the 400-class Mikados arrived in 1937...Class C-38...55 inch drivers...38,200 lbs of Tractive Effort...
Mogul 251 crossing the Sturgeon Bay ship channel...
Mogul working the yard in Sturgeon Bay...
KGBW Mogul 2-6-0 260 at an unidentified location...
KGBW 2-8-2 Mikado 404...handsome locomotives that would have made a great excursion runner...unfortunately none were preserved...some of the latest Mikados constructed in the US for US service...
Ferries in Kewaunee WI making smoke like the dreadnoughts at Jutland...view looks north and Lake Michigan is to the right so the wind is blowing from the west...
KGBW Mikado 2-8-2 402 loading Ann Arbor ferry boat Viking in Kewaunee WI...with Pere Marquette ferry boat Marquette in Slip 2 waiting to be loaded...view looks south and Lake Michigan is to the left...
Kewaunee WI 1950 with ferry approaching - car ferry slips are just to the left of the channel on the small peninsula...ships would enter in to the turning basin, spin around to port about 45 degrees and then back in to the slips...
Kewaunee WI ferry slips view from the north - Lake Michigan is on the left...two ALCOs have the Boat Train today....The Green Bay Route was an ALCO customer right to the end...
KGBW Mogul 2-6-0 256...this plucky Mogul was built by ALCO in 1924...originally numbered 56...
KGBW Mikado 2-8-2 401 ALCO builder's photo in 1937...64 inch drivers...47,247 lbs of Tractive Effort...4.27 Factor of Adhesion...
KGBW 49 on display at the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in 2004...
Lived in Duluth for 23 years before I moved to Montana last fall... miss it every day.
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
The Missabe Road: Safety First
Been listening to the Prarie Home Companion since the mid seventies....what a great show.
Speaking of the mid seventies I got totally plastered one weekend in Minneapolis...does that count?
Garrison Keillor
schlimm MarknLisa a suburb of Downers Grove IL Since DG is a suburb of Chicago, perhaps you meant to say an adjoining community, such a Darien, Lisle, Westmont or Woodridge?
MarknLisa a suburb of Downers Grove IL
Since DG is a suburb of Chicago, perhaps you meant to say an adjoining community, such a Darien, Lisle, Westmont or Woodridge?
Yea, Westmont.
MarknLisaLive in the Twin Cities 'south of the river'. Grew up in Omaha. Lived in Lincoln, Des Moines & a suburb of Downers Grove IL
Assuming you're in Burnsville or thereabouts- I was born in Mankato and spent my high school years in Prior Lake.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Near Hibbing.
MarknLisaa suburb of Downers Grove IL
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Murphy Siding I live 15 miles from Minnesota in Sioux Falls. Do I get an honorable mention ribbon?
I live 15 miles from Minnesota in Sioux Falls. Do I get an honorable mention ribbon?
No, just a participation trophy.
Norm
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Live in the northwest suburbs. Am originally from a small town in northeast Iowa and a graduate of the University of Iowa as well.
So many names on here don't show where they live. I'm in Stillwater. Grew up in Grand Meadow and Rochester.
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
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