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Date: 03/19/23 09:21
Switcher Sunday - BN 306
Author: refarkas

An unknown photographer caught BN 306 (EMD SW1500) in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1971.
Bob



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Date: 03/19/23 12:06
Re: Switcher Sunday - BN 306
Author: ntharalson

Best guess on this one is the Dayton's Bluff area although I can't give you the GN number off the top of my head.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

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Date: 03/19/23 15:09
Re: Switcher Sunday - BN 306
Author: NPEDDIE

About 1968 the Northern Pacific removed clerks from the yard at Northtown and used pickup trucks to get rollbys. I saw a new GN SW1500 heading into SOO Shoreham Yard, Mpls. The styling harked back to the 1930's.

After the GN cleared the SOO lead, the SOO came onto Northern Pacific tracks for the old "D" yard to drop their train and pickup cars for the SOO.

Ed Burns

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Date: 03/19/23 20:44
Re: Switcher Sunday - BN 306
Author: NPEDDIE

Nick:

The GN number was 206. GN 200 to 204 were assigned to lines west, either Seattle or Spokane--I don't have a 1968 GN distribution of power. 205 to 209 were assigned to Mpls.

Ed Burns

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