236 - M&NB Railroad - Early RR Films B&W Color Part 4 - Jim Slocum Twin City MR Museum Collection

The video is from early 16 mm films taken by
Twin City Model Railroad Museum member Jim Slocum in 1950
Railroads in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota and Wisconsin USA
are shown
The list of trains is below.
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Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
The Museum is next to the old Amtrak Station in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The current address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota
55114
651-647-9628
www.tcmrm.org/
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Trains in the video
Milwaukee Road - 4-4-2 Atlantic type streamlined steam locomotive with a Hiawatha passenger train - Wisconsin
Milwaukee Road - Gas Electric Car local passenger train - Wisconsin
Chicago Burlington & Quincy- Zephyr with The AEOLOS - a special 4-6-4 streamlined steam locomotive that is used to replace the normal diesel powered power car during that latter’s maintenance periods - St Paul
Chicago Burlington & Quincy - Zephyr passenger train with the usual diesel powered power car - St Paul
Chicago Burlington & Quincy - Zephyr with early experimental EMC Electromotive Corporation twin diesel unit - St Paul
This unit led to the development of the E Unit passenger series
Chicago & NorthWestern - E-Series 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotive with passenger train - St Paul
Chicago St Paul Minneapolis & Omaha - 0-8-0 steam switching locomotive - Wisconsin
Great Northern Railway - P2 Mountain Type 4-8-2 steam locomotive with passenger train
Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 Baltic Type steam locomotive with passenger train
View from St Paul Union Depot - the control tower and employees out throwing turnouts for switch engines and other trains for the usual morning rush
Trains shown near the Depot include
Chicago & NorthWestern passenger train
Chicago & NorthWestern freight transfer run
Great Northern passenger train
A paddle wheel steam powered tow boat is showing pushing a barge up the Mississippi River - St Paul
A cab view from the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Zephyr is shown next
The Zephyr ran East from St Paul through St Croix Tower - across the bridge at Prescott Wisconsin and down the East side of the Mississippi River - passing freight trains
The photographer paced a - P2 Mountain Type 4-8-2 steam locomotive with passenger train - from the highway
Milwaukee Road S-1 Northern Type 4-8-4 steam locomotive is shown
The photographer next paced a Chicago & NorthWestern E-1 Pacific type steam locomotive with a passenger train
He shows the car speedometer - the train is passing him - as he is going 83 miles an hour!
Next a Burlington gondola is pulled is being pulled into a coal dump station for the steam locomotives
An unofficial is humorously pretending to push the car up the ramp
(there's actually a cable underneath pulling the car)
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The Music is Jo Stafford sining songs from the period
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