C&NW "Easter Eggs" meet a BN "Rainbow Fleet" at the "Back Door" (Jim Hinshaw photo)

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Robert Anderson	General	Good under tower shot. Officially trk 6 called "the back way" or back door. Not long after this while working 2nd trick,an empty long gon popped up off it's trucks about where the green goat is. Required train insp were straight down from the top window here. Lucky for me the gon went left and the resulting pile up went left away from tower. It would have easily knocked the legs out and I could have rode this concrete pill box down. Out of the 6 tracks wide here,5 were blocked. Only Milw EB frt main was left. Amtrak WB was rerouted at Oakland Tower thru Pigs Eye Yd to that track. Now Imagine if PSGR was moving thru here at the time. Some days we are lucky. Nice here with CNW coming out of the Belt.	6/30/2018 3:54:30 AM

C&NW "Easter Eggs" meet a BN "Rainbow Fleet" at the "Back Door" (Jim Hinshaw photo)
Track under Hoffman Ave Tower was nicknamed the "Back Door" out of CB&Q Daytons Bluff Yard
Date: 10/1/1972	Location: Saint Paul, MN	Views: 1340	Collection Of: The Slidebroker image by John Hill
Locomotives: BN 2529(GP35)			Author: Jim Hinshaw

Picture Categories: Yard,Track,Action		This picture is part of album: Jim Hinshaw Photos