The video is of the Soo Line and Burlington Northern Railroads in Minnesota.
Twin Cities Railfan Karl Rasmussen took this video in 1990.
A List of the trains in the video is below.
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If you and your family would like to see models of these and other trains operate -
Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
Open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
The Regular Museum hours are
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM
Saturday 10AM - 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday 10 AM - 3 PM
NIGHT TRAINS
Night Trains will run on special days in the Summer of 2024 - and again for the regular season November through February -
please check the website
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Other Special Events are run at different times during the year:
Circus Trains runs all April and September at the Museum.
Military Trains run all May through Memorial Day
Spooky Trains run October through Halloween
Please check the website for details
www.tcmrm.org/
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The Museum is located on Transfer Road (Cleveland Ave) near University Avenue next to the old Amtrak Station.
The address is 668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114
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The trains in the Video
The video opens in St. Paul with a Railfan Special on the old Milwaukee Road mainline to Chicago.
The Special was pulled by a 'GP-20C' locomotive and an SD-40-2.
The GP-20C locos were GP-9s modified with Caterpillar 2000 HP four stroke diesel engines. These locomotives were tested on the BN and Soo Line. They were not successful on these two railroads, however the 'GP-20C's were then sold to the Twin City & Western and subsidiary Red River Valley & Western where they performed very well for many years.
After the Railfan Special, the video shows a number of Soo Line Trains on the former Milwaukee Road tracks - including:
a 'Ford Job'with two EMD MP-15s - run up to the Ford Plant in St. Paul
a Soo SD-40-2 / GP-40 running upgrade on the Shortline Hill (adjacent to Ayd Mill Road) and on over to the Midway Yard
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum
The Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models - of all sizes.
There are many different model: gauges, scales and sizes - including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout - 1/48th
G - Garden - about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale - 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Gauge - approx. 1/55th
S Scale - 1/64th - American Flyer Trains
OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale - 1/87th
OOO Scale - 1/152nd
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale - 1/220th
LEGO Minature - 1/384th
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel,
American Flyer,
Märklin
Marx
Hornby
and others
There are also exhibits that show the various scales side by side - for comparision - inlcuding the International Train Display at the rear of the Museum.
The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables where they can create and build models and run wooden trains.
There is a LEGO Work Area and a Thomas the Tank Train layout to run as well.
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