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Milw 126A and 310

            "in those days" when I walked to "the St Paul Union Depot" to catch "the Twin City lines" bus... i was met between Division Street and Hoffman Avenue by this lite engine the Milw 126A with a maroon strip and the Milw 310 with two "B units" returning home to St Paul yard. The sunlight and the shadows they would seem to say that this was in the morning after "3rd trick" and NOT in the afternoon for "2nd trick" I worked them both and I can tell you that "2nd trick" at Hoffman Avenue was surely a very busy place indeed. Perhaps it was the shift change and the time of the operator's transfer at 12 midnight that I enjoyed the most and that was because that was the time when the Milwaukee "Pioneer Limited" and the Burlington "Blackhawk" would leave St Paul for Chicago as they would race "down the river" to La Crosse where they would meet once again at Grand Crossing where the Milwaukee went east and the Burlington continued south this was also the time that Burlington number 97 would be leaving Dayton's Bluff for a connection with the Great Northern and there had better NOT be any delays except for the 2nd trick operator who did NOT get out the door and down the stairs fast enough. But this mattered NOT too me because I would often times just hang around to see the parade and in the morning after 3rd trick I would often see that Burlington "Morning Zephyr" with thru cars off the Great Northern "Empire Builder" and also off the Northern Pacific "North Coast Limited" Those surely were the days but they now belong to "the people of yesterday" that is to say in a time before Amtrak and the Burlington Northern came to be 
   

Taken on: April 7, 2020

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