Well after what seam's like years I heard the Monty Local this afternoon clearing up at Lyndale Jct, anyone on that side of town see them or know if they are heading up to the power plant with some big (high/wide) loads?

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Milwaukee Road Matt

I heard it go through Monticello at about 7:00 when I left for school. My dad just happened to leave work early and saw it in St. Michael at around 11:45 with a ex-BN and a Swoosh unit on it. He said it had a few covered hoppers and some lumber cars on it.

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Railfanning Location-
Big Lake
M.P. 47.74

I was outside around 5:30 or so and heard a train horn, so I waited for my dad to get home and we went into downtown Monti. We got down there and there was what looked like a railfan standing in the middle of Hwy. 25 and there was a light from a locomotive down towards the Community Center. We headed that way and saw an Ex-BN Geep switching a hopper car into the siding, accompanied by another railfan with a camera. We continued further down the street and saw a caboose marked "Specialized Rail Transport" hooked up to one of those Schnabel cars with what looked like a nuclear fuel cask on it. Does anyone know anything about this movement?

There was a transformer that had been sitting on M&M #2 by the entrance to Commercial base that was a hiwide that the crew down south took it through a bridge and sheered the bolts off the top, there was some sort of legal somethign going on so it sat there but has no moved on its way to to nuclear plant last week.

that explains why I saw no bar tables sitting in storage south of Monticello a few weeks ago. Will they get move back?

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Taylor P.
Lake Elmo, MN
Route of the "400"

my train pictures.

nothing mentioned of it yet but there is a good chance that could happen.