Kind of an idle curiosity note for me. I had one of those moments today. I was on my way home from work, saw a cloud of black smoke and thought, "gee, that looks like locomotive exhaust from..." my thoughts kind of stopped cold when I saw they were right. The Minnesota Commercial railroad has a lot of switching leads in the Minneapolis/St Paul area (gee, maybe because that's where all it's track is, go figure). Anyway, a rare sight - Minnesota Commercial Alco RS27 (probably the #316 though I couldn't... read more
