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Owner: Progressive Rail, Inc
Model:EMD SW1500Built As:MNS 36 (SW1500)
Serial Number:32504Order No:4506
Frame Number:4506-1Built:11/1966
Notes:nee MN&S 36
Other locos with this serial:  SOO 1400(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
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060909059 PGR Progressive Rail Headquarters Tour
Title:  060909059 PGR Progressive Rail Headquarters Tour
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/9/2006  Upload Date: 4/1/2013 7:31:12 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
PGR 36 pass Cub Foods
Title:  PGR 36 pass Cub Foods
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/2/2007  Upload Date: 11/13/2015 11:49:07 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/16/2007 8:50:46 PM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/15/2007 8:05:22 PM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  522   Comments: 1
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description:  PGR 36 at Auto Club
Photo Date:  9/26/2008  Upload Date: 4/1/2009 12:44:47 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Eric Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  529   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description:  PGR 36 at Auto Club
Photo Date:  9/26/2008  Upload Date: 4/1/2009 12:46:12 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Eric Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  590   Comments: 0
Santa Express
Title:  Santa Express
Description:  PGR 36 in Richfield
Photo Date:  12/13/2008  Upload Date: 4/1/2009 12:54:50 AM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Eric Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description:  PGR 36 and MNS 102 at the CAT plant.
Photo Date:  1/30/2011  Upload Date: 2/6/2011 6:24:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  George Roscoe
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description:  PGR 36 and MNS 102 at the CAT plant.
Photo Date:  1/30/2011  Upload Date: 2/6/2011 6:25:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  George Roscoe
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
Resting On Home Rails
Title:  Resting On Home Rails
Description:  The caboose is vintage MN&S. Despite the PGR paint, so is the SW1500! Here they sit in the open air "shops" PGR has just east of 35W in Bloomington along the former Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern "high line" with the locomotive shut down and silent awaiting the next days work.
Photo Date:  1/21/2012  Upload Date: 1/22/2012 7:26:26 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  280   Comments: 0
Highline Job
Title:  Highline Job
Description:  After waiting nearly an hour for the Soo MN&S job to show up, the PGRs Highline Job can get moving with a decent length of cars.
Photo Date:  3/19/2012  Upload Date: 3/23/2012 8:50:10 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description:  Up close and personal with the 36 as it rolls over W 86th Ave.
Photo Date:  3/26/2012  Upload Date: 3/27/2012 1:59:55 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Shovin' Back
Title:  Shovin' Back
Description:  The 36 continues to spot cars along the Highline; here we see the 36 shoving back on about six or cars at 86th Ave. .
Photo Date:  3/26/2012  Upload Date: 3/27/2012 2:15:43 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
Switching cars
Title:  Switching cars
Description:  PGR 36 works the Highline as it pulls a cut of covered hoppers out of an industry.
Photo Date:  3/26/2012  Upload Date: 3/27/2012 1:52:05 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
Number 36 At Rest
Title:  Number 36 At Rest
Description:  Progressive Rail's former Minneapolis, Nortfield, and Southern SW1500 rests on old home rails at the Bloomington freight house on a warm late spring evening.
Photo Date:  5/14/2012  Upload Date: 5/14/2012 11:10:11 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  RicVard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
Better Than I Thought
Title:  Better Than I Thought
Description:  It pays to stand 6'5 feet tall: I was able to get this shot of PGR 36 on the grounds of their Bloomington freight house despite the chain link fence surrounding the grounds. The shot came out better than I thought since the sun was shining from behind the subject.
Photo Date:  5/21/2012  Upload Date: 5/21/2012 10:44:17 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Preparing To Push
Title:  Preparing To Push
Description:  The PGR crew prepares to push into their freight house two woodchip cars and a UP boxcar sublettered SP on a fine Memorial Day 2012.
Photo Date:  5/28/2012  Upload Date: 5/28/2012 6:08:43 PM
Location:  Birchwood, MN
Author:  Richard Heod
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Good Thing I Brought A Camera!
Title:  Good Thing I Brought A Camera!
Description:  I almost forgot my camera on this outing. If I had, I wouldn't have been able to grab this shot of the crew aboard PGR 36 shoving a cut of three cars towards their freight house. Photo location is at the west 96th street grade crossing along the maze of industrial tracks jutting off of the old Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern "high line" west if 35W.
Photo Date:  5/28/2012  Upload Date: 5/28/2012 12:00:00 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
At Rest Behind The Fence
Title:  At Rest Behind The Fence
Description:  PGER 36 sits inside the grounds of the Bloomington freight house on a mild Monday evening in early August.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 8/14/2012 10:09:57 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
PGR 36 And Freight House Sign
Title:  PGR 36 And Freight House Sign
Description:  Here we have PGR's former MN&S SW15000 parked in the freight house on a sunny late August evening. Since I usually catch this unit here, for variety's sake I composed into this shot the "All Drivers" sign on the left.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/23/2012 8:17:47 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road And MN&S Vets
Title:  Milwaukee Road And MN&S Vets
Description:  Along Progressive Rail's former MN&S High Line route just west of Lyndale Avenue down by their open-air shops next to Ziegler CAT we find a Milwaukee Road vet in the form of CP GP40 4609 parked idling out on the main track and a Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern vet in the form of PGR SW1500 36 sitting parked shut down on the spur into Ziegler. Nice!
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/19/2013 7:52:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 4609(GP40) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
PGR 36 and lumber flats
Title:  PGR 36 and lumber flats
Description:  On a cool (but not chilly) afternoon on the last day of April, PGR 36 sits coupled to two loaded centerbeam flats at the PGR freight house in Bloomington.
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 9:52:55 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Resting for the next day
Title:  Resting for the next day
Description:  During the summer of 2013, after interchanging with CP, the crew of Progressive Rail would leave their motive power parked near Auto Club Yard for the night. Not sure why, but it was a good opportunity to get some nice shots.
Photo Date:  6/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/16/2014 6:28:45 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Eric Ecklund
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
All coupled up but staying put
Title:  All coupled up but staying put
Description:  We are outside PGR's Bloomington freight house in thip photo. It looks like the 36 is ready to roll here. Well it technically is, but it is shut off and resting beneath mild June skies this evening. Track in the right background junctions with another spur just south of the grade crossing in the distance.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:50:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Out of the freight house
Title:  Out of the freight house
Description:  The 36 sits outside the freight house grounds lashed to a short cut of cars. Note: "sun glare" beyond the 36's nose is due in part to the camera setting.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:09:01 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
PGR Southbound at 86th
Title:  PGR Southbound at 86th
Description:  The Progressive Rail "High Line" local heads south across 86th Street with a short string of covered hoppers in tow plus another PGR unit on a seasonably cold afternoon on a day in mid-January.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:09:09 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  294   Comments: 1
Two Locos At The Lyndale "Shops"
Title:  Two Locos At The Lyndale "Shops"
Description:  PGR now is housing two locomotives at the Lyndale "shops" along the Dan Patch Line (aka Hi-Line). What happened to the MN&S caboose they used to store here?
Photo Date:  3/18/2014  Upload Date: 3/19/2014 7:19:42 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
"Mission Before Money"
Title:  "Mission Before Money"
Description:  I love the sign they got affixed to the fence at the Lyndale "shops" for the PGR's Dan Patch Line. I still wonder where MN&S bay window caboose 102 went?
Photo Date:  5/5/2014  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 12:37:02 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Progressive Rail interchange with CP
Title:  Progressive Rail interchange with CP
Description:  Since early 2014, Progressive Rails Hi-Line job in Bloomington and Richfield now has two locomotives. Hopefully that means business is doing well!
Photo Date:  5/29/2014  Upload Date: 8/13/2014 1:18:55 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Eric Ecklund
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
PGR 36
Title:  PGR 36
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 12:54:40 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Olson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
A pair of PGR SW1500s
Title:  A pair of PGR SW1500s
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 12:57:48 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Olson
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Local rolls south
Title:  Local rolls south
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/13/2015  Upload Date: 7/5/2015 1:11:10 PM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  202   Comments: 0
The Illusion Of An Approaching Train
Title:  The Illusion Of An Approaching Train
Description:  The PGR 36 waits on the west side of the 35W bridge on a gorgeous early afternoon in late April. It was sitting unmanned due to the PGR's "push/pull" operations on the line utilizing units at each end of their trains. At this moment the crew was using PGR 34 to switch their freight house, leaving the 36 to create the illusion of an oncoming train down at the bridge. I still kept my distance regardless. Better safe than sorry, folks.
Photo Date:  4/27/2015  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 3:13:30 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Holding The Main Track On The Dan Patch Line
Title:  Holding The Main Track On The Dan Patch Line
Description:  The PGR 36 holds the main track while the PGR crew used PGR 34 to switch the freight house. They were doing their push-pull thing with their units today (obviously).
Photo Date:  4/27/2015  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 3:13:51 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
Three For One
Title:  Three For One
Description:  I wound up not only getting RRV$W 4104 in this shot, but PGR's two Dan Patch Line units as well.
Photo Date:  5/15/2015  Upload Date: 5/15/2015 4:30:15 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RRVW 4104(GP15C) PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Sleepy Day On The Dan Patch Line
Title:  Sleepy Day On The Dan Patch Line
Description:  The motive power for the Dan Patch Line rests beneath slowly clearing skies on a Wednesday afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/20/2015  Upload Date: 5/20/2015 4:58:36 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
CP And PNR At Auto Club
Title:  CP And PNR At Auto Club
Description:  The PGR and CP crews have completed their switching down at Auto Club Junction, thus allowing the PGR crew to proceed to Nesbitt Siding to pick up their interchange and the CP crew theirs at Auto Club.
Photo Date:  8/10/2015  Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:05:37 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) CP 2226(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Crossing Old Shakopee Road
Title:  Crossing Old Shakopee Road
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew heads on up to Nesbitt Siding to pick up the interfhange the CP 0630 brought them.
Photo Date:  8/10/2015  Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:07:55 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
Switlhing At Auto Club
Title:  Switlhing At Auto Club
Description:  The PGR and CP crews engage in switching at Auto Club Junction so as to allow the CP crew to couple the two cars they brought south but are going beck to Humboldt Yard into the interchange PGR has waiting for them on the old MN&S main at Auto Club Yard.
Photo Date:  8/10/2015  Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:05:13 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  144   Comments: 0
The MN&S Lives
Title:  The MN&S Lives
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew approaches Old Shakopee Road after departing Auto Club Junction bound for the string of interchange awaiting them upby Nesbitt Siding. Their motive power looks like the ghosts of the MN&S, albeit ghosts brought back to life in the present day a la Mr. Spock's resurrection.
Photo Date:  8/11/2015  Upload Date: 8/11/2015 12:33:52 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  306   Comments: 0
PGR 36 nice sunny autumn day
Title:  PGR 36 nice sunny autumn day
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2015  Upload Date: 10/23/2015 1:03:46 AM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
Waiting In The Deep Freeze
Title:  Waiting In The Deep Freeze
Description:  Progressive Rail's Dan Path Line power sits in the "shops" located on the Hi-Line a block west of Lyndale Avenue on a sun-scrubbed but bone-chilling Sunday afternoon in early January.
Photo Date:  1/10/2016  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 4:54:59 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
At Rest
Title:  At Rest
Description:  The Dan Patch Line duo rests beneath partly cloudy skie} on a remarkably mild February afternoon in the "shop" located southwest of Lyndale Avenue.
Photo Date:  2/16/2016  Upload Date: 2/16/2016 6:25:37 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
PGR 36, 34 + ACFX 64831
Title:  PGR 36, 34 + ACFX 64831
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/21/2016  Upload Date: 3/23/2024 3:47:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  57   Comments: 0
At Rest Outside The "Shop"
Title:  At Rest Outside The "Shop"
Description:  Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line duo sit at rest outside the PGR's "shop" west of Lyndale Avenue on Memorial Day 2016.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 5/31/2016 10:36:29 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
MN&S Aura
Title:  MN&S Aura
Description:  In this shot, the aura of the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern can be felt in this nose on view of PGR's ex-MN&S unit now virtually back in her old colors.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 5/31/2016 10:37:00 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
PGR 36 + PINX 463169
Title:  PGR 36 + PINX 463169
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/19/2016  Upload Date: 3/14/2024 7:13:08 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
South of 86th Street
Title:  South of 86th Street
Description:  The Progressive Rail crew pauses in the middle of a switching move south of 86th Street beneath gray but surprisingly mild November skies.
Photo Date:  11/29/2016  Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:17:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  243   Comments: 1
Switching Amidst Industry
Title:  Switching Amidst Industry
Description:  The PGR crew has pulled ahead on a switching move south of 86th Street. I do not know if they were switching an industry, or sorting out stored cars. The industry in the background provides a swell backdrop for the two locomotives whose paint schemes are virtually identical to that used by the Minneapolis, Northfield, and Southern, which once operated this line.
Photo Date:  11/29/2016  Upload Date: 11/29/2016 3:18:13 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  311   Comments: 1
Local working
Title:  Local working
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/2016  Upload Date: 12/23/2016 5:01:34 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  153   Comments: 0


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