Twin Cities & Western Railroad's St. Paul Turn - EMD Powered

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

Like1️⃣🚂🏁An excellent touch in each video, I leave my like friend, continue like this

[@RandymanB]

I love the sound of EMD's in the morning!

[@MNRails]

The best!

[@KenanTurkiye]

roses are red, violets are blue there's trains and trams in my playlist two there ya go, that somehow rhymed :))

[@waltersobchek2465]

Great video and especially loved that closing shot!

[@railseast]

Excellent contrast between freight rail and light rail at the Excelsior bridge scene. Great video overall, nice lens work...

[@jaydee975]

On the old Milwaukee Road!❤

[@workinghardusa]

Excellent, well done! High-quality content!

[@MNRails]

Much appreciated!

[@1208bug]

😊👍

[@Wyvvyrn]

Great video! Love the panning to keep all the locos in the shot. Is it common for there to be other lead units on the TC&W trains such as the CSX/CP units?

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

Thanks to unit ethanol and grain, you’ll see TC&W, RRV&W, CPKCS, UP, NS and CSX power, plus the occasional movement of the Friends of 261 passenger excursions. One road you won’t see on the TC&W is BNSF. Haven’t seen any CN or FerroMex on the TC&W but any and all power is seen on the BNSF’s Wayzata sub. I live in the “V” created by the TC&W/SWLRT corridor and the BNSF’s former GN line to Willmar and points west. I hear the trains on TC&W but watch the BNSF trains roll by. TC&W is host to the most beautiful horn sounds in the world-soon to be augmented by light rail train sounds.

[@maxrshelltrack7443]

​@douglasskaalrud6865 bnsf does appear on the twin cities and western I believe on ethanol trains.

[@paulman9989]

Does # 1 Engineer Gaylen Still Work For TCW ?

[@MNRails]

I think he is retired.

[@jaydee975]

Yuck that new light rail line looks ugly! In my opinion, it was a big waste of money for something like that. I think it should’ve been a commuter line instead revitalizing the old M&StL line between Hopkins and Carver.

[@nicholaspeterson2615]

Resident of the area. Republicans (and some democrats) can be to blame on that. After governor Jessie Ventura (Yes the wrestler that tried to Unionize WWE) managed to get the blue line constructed and the foot steps of the North Star commuter rail started the Metropolitan Council (the local government that manages all counties in the TC area regional infrastructure including Metro Transit (this LRT)) were looking at a BRT on this line (similar to the current idea of the Purple line or 30 year old UofM busway). However the state's house put a gag law on BRT and Commuter Rail development banning the council from even surveying and running feasibility studies for said modes in cities west and south of Minneapolis. This in turn meant that LRT was the only 'legal' means of any rapid transit in the SW metro. The Democrat trifecta last year finally overturned most of the gag laws last year (not all out of fear of republicans possibly re-introducing them if they had power to and some democrats in those areas still gagged opposed the lifting so this was a compromise). So blame politics for the LRT. That said I do love how the LRT project basically made the 8 miles south cedar bike trail fully grade separated except for one major road.