219 - M&NB Railroad - Early RR Films B&W Color Part 2 - Jim Slocum Twin City MR Museum Collection

The video is from early films taken by Railfan Jim Slocum in 1950.
The video is from the Twin City Model Railroad Museum video collection.
Jim filmed railroads in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota USA with 16mm Black & White as well as early Kodachrome A color film.

The video has been edited and music from the period has been added.

The list of trains in the video is below.

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The trains
Rock Island EMD Model TA Loco pulling a passenger train out of the Milwaukee Depot in Minneapolis

Milwaukee Road F-7 4-6-4 Baltic type streamlined steam locomotive pulls out with the Afternoon Hiawatha
NOTE: there is steam coming from each end of the Cylinder - the engineer has opened the valve to allow wet steam to escape from the bottom of the cylinder
this must be done when the steam engine starts otherwise water could build up and break the piston rod as water is incompressible


Chicago & Northwestern E-6A / E-6A with The 400 passendger train departs Eau Claire Wisconsin

Milwaukee Road E-7A / E-7a with the Afternoon Hiawatha pulls across Chestnut Street Interlocking in St Paul headed for the St Paul Union Depot

Soo Line passenger train with a 10-wheeler 4-6-0 goes through Chestnut Street

Milwaukee Road triple header - three steam locomotives work to pull a large freight up the Short line Hill in St Paul

Milwaukee Road 4-4-2 Atlantic Type streamlined steam loco with a passenger train

The next views are from the tower at the St Paul Union Depot
The trackage was complex - many puzzle or four-way switches were used to save space
The tracks on the left go up the hill and are Great Northern and Northern Pacific - used by the GN NP C&NW Soo Line and CGW RRs

The tracks to the right are Burlington and Milwaukee headed down river to the East

A Northern Pacific 4-6-2 Pacific Type steam locomotive arrives

A Chicago Great Western 4-6-0 10-Wheeler Type steam loco pulls out with a passenger train - headed to Minneapolis

A Gas-Electric car with a coach leaves next

A Chicago & NorthWestern passenger train comes into the depot with an Omaha 4-6-2 Pacific Type steam loco as another C& NW train leaves

A Northern Pacific A Class Northern Type backs onto a passenger train
Note that the Northern Pacific was the first railroad to use the 4-8-4 hence the name Northern Type - some other railroads used different names - the New York Central Niagaras in the south Dixies or Presidents (RF&P)

An NP passenger train backs into the station

NP GN CB&Q and some other passenger trains had to use the wye to turn around so they would be facing East to leave the Depot for Minneapolis or Chicago

A Northern Pacific local pulls out with a 4-6-0 10-wheeler type steam loco

At this time there were nearly a hundred passenger trains each day going through the St Paul Union Depot
The switch tenders can be seen running around the plant - almost all of the turnouts were manually operated

A C&NW passenger train departs as another train arrives

A Burlington Zephyr streamlined passenger train arrives and departs a bit later


A C&NW passenger train heads east from St Paul

Milwaukee Road steam engines are shown in an engine terminal

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The Channel would like to thank the artists for the use of the music
This video has Jo Stafford with songs that she sang in the early 1950s
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