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Owner: Progressive Rail, Inc
Model:EMD SW1500Built As:SOU 2347 (SW1500)
Serial Number:36139Order No:4582
Frame Number:4582-5Built:3/1970
Notes:nee SOU 2347
Other locos with this serial:  PGR 34(SW1500) WN 34(SW1500) SOU 2347(SW1500) PGR 2347(SW1500)
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WN 1500 1501 & the 34 on the north leg of the Norma Wye
Title:  WN 1500 1501 & the 34 on the north leg of the Norma Wye
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/17/2007 7:30:09 AM
Location:  Norma, WI
Author:  Dave Voss
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WN 1500(GP15-1) WN 1501(GP15-1) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  1049   Comments: 4
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/3/2005  Upload Date: 11/1/2006 6:27:08 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Nicholas Benson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  560   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/3/2005  Upload Date: 11/1/2006 6:27:09 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Nicholas Benson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  814   Comments: 0
SOO 900212
Title:  SOO 900212
Description:  Sitting on a siding that continues up into the Fairway Foods parking lot. This picture was taken from behind the Armstrong Business center.
Photo Date:  8/3/2005  Upload Date: 11/1/2006 6:27:02 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Nicholas Benson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) LLPX 2023(GP38) PGR 63(GP9)
Views:  1516   Comments: 1
WN 34 at Norma Wisconsin
Title:  WN 34 at Norma Wisconsin
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/2007  Upload Date: 9/12/2007 11:43:10 AM
Location:  Norma, WI
Author:  Lisa Hackler
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  768   Comments: 0
Southbound local
Title:  Southbound local
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/19/2007  Upload Date: 2/14/2009 2:36:30 PM
Location:  Bloomer, WI
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  495   Comments: 1
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/2007  Upload Date: 9/5/2007 6:00:01 PM
Location:  Chippewa Falls, WI
Author:  Max Koehn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) WN 1501(GP15-1) WN 1500(GP15-1)
Views:  1063   Comments: 1
PGR 34 & WN 1500 & 1501 Wisconsin Northern Fleet
Title:  PGR 34 & WN 1500 & 1501 Wisconsin Northern Fleet
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/30/2009  Upload Date: 9/9/2009 12:34:50 AM
Location:  Norma, WI
Author:  Lisa Hackler
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) WN 1500(GP15-1) WN 1501(GP15-1)
Views:  2798   Comments: 6
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/17/2010  Upload Date: 5/18/2010 6:50:43 PM
Location:  Altoona, WI
Author:  Max Koehn
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/2011  Upload Date: 9/2/2011 8:35:08 PM
Location:  Northfield, MN
Author:  Jeffrey Streiff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/26/2012  Upload Date: 2/26/2012 6:14:35 PM
Location:  Lakeville, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
A view from the "back"
Title:  A view from the "back"
Description:  A view of the "back" end of the PGR 34. It is the "back" in name only duie to the ditch lights for cab-first running. 34 was parked lashed up to two covered joppers at Lyndale Siding this evening.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:57 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
Dig that logo!
Title:  Dig that logo!
Description:  The Progressive Rail logo on the PGR 34 at Lyndale Siding.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:04:00 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
Hello again!
Title:  Hello again!
Description:  When I first saw this unit working the Hi-Line, it's number was 2347. On This b}eezy, deliciously mild mid-June evening the now-renumbered (and re-painted) unit is at Lyndale Siding on the Hi-Line. The 34 is lashed to a couple hoppers. I hfve it on good authority this unit was used down in the Lakeville-Northfield area for a time.
Photo Date:  6/17/2013  Upload Date: 6/17/2013 11:02:11 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
Slipping Past the Parked Hoppers
Title:  Slipping Past the Parked Hoppers
Description:  The three-car southbound PGR "High Line" local with PGR 34 on the hind end sneaks around a cut of parked hopper cars south of 86th Street as it heads on down the old MN&S.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:12:38 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  335   Comments: 1
Swinging Back Onto The Main
Title:  Swinging Back Onto The Main
Description:  The PGR "High Line" local heads back onto the "main" track after sneaking around a cut of parked hoppers south of 86th Street as it continues on its southbound trek.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:13:35 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Track,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
What was the 34 doing here?
Title:  What was the 34 doing here?
Description:  The southbound PGR "High Line" local had a short cut of covered hoppers in tow as it crossed 86th Street this day... and had PGR 34 bringing up the rear, apparently idling but unmanned. Why was this, anybody know?
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 11:11:36 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
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:  353   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:  373   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:  519   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description:  At least I got to see them.
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 12:57:09 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Olson
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  226   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:  375   Comments: 0
Switching In Suburbia
Title:  Switching In Suburbia
Description:  Office parks border the spur track in PGR's freight house, resulting in views like this when crews switch it. On this gorgeous late April afternoon, the PGR crew goes about its duties while workers at their cubicles go about their workdays in a more ho hum manner. (It's "Office Space" meets "Brewster's Millions" out here.)
Photo Date:  4/27/2015  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 3:14:08 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  257   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:  394   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:  291   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:  346   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:  302   Comments: 0
MLLX 10844 & PGR 34
Title:  MLLX 10844 & PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2015  Upload Date: 11/3/2015 8:07:16 AM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2015  Upload Date: 10/23/2015 1:03:38 AM
Location:  Richfield, MN
Author:  Andrew Goblirsch
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  201   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:  249   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:  219   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:  55   Comments: 0
At Freighthouse Seven
Title:  At Freighthouse Seven
Description:  The 34 sits beneath balmy April skies at Freighthouse Seven in Bloomington. Progressive Rail sure knows how to revitalize a rail line.
Photo Date:  4/18/2016  Upload Date: 4/18/2016 3:45:53 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
PGR 34 At The Freighthouse
Title:  PGR 34 At The Freighthouse
Description:  Another view of PGR 34 at the Bloomington freighthouse. Who said boxcars were dead as a mode of commodity transport? The 34 was sitting shut down on the freighthouse grounds beneath mostly cloudy skies during the noon hour on a balmy Monday afternoon in April.
Photo Date:  4/18/2016  Upload Date: 4/18/2016 3:46:15 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  338   Comments: 1
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:  313   Comments: 0
PGR 34
Title:  PGR 34
Description:  Nose view.
Photo Date:  5/30/2016  Upload Date: 5/31/2016 10:36:42 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  230   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:  236   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:  307   Comments: 1
Paused local
Title:  Paused local
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/2016  Upload Date: 12/23/2016 5:02:06 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
Switching cars
Title:  Switching cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2017  Upload Date: 11/11/2017 6:13:39 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  308   Comments: 1
Dan Patch Line Power In Repose
Title:  Dan Patch Line Power In Repose
Description:  Parked on the main line instead of the spur (due to a movement to be made into Ziegler CAT?), the Dan Patch Line motive power rests beneath balmy Saturday afternoon skies on National Train Day 2018.
Photo Date:  5/5/2018  Upload Date: 5/5/2018 10:19:18 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
The Duo Is In
Title:  The Duo Is In
Description:  PGR 34 and 36 parked on the main southwest of Lyndale on a lovely July afternoon.
Photo Date:  7/16/2018  Upload Date: 7/24/2018 11:59:31 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Paused At Lyndale
Title:  Paused At Lyndale
Description:  The Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line crew apparently paused in the middle of their work, shut the 34 and 36 down, and "went for beans" (i.e., lunch) by the time I showed up and captured my latest portrait of the Dan Patch Line duo.
Photo Date:  3/27/2019  Upload Date: 3/27/2019 11:28:32 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  271   Comments: 2
Local switches the side tracks
Title:  Local switches the side tracks
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/30/2020  Upload Date: 1/10/2021 1:27:23 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Taking A Breather
Title:  Taking A Breather
Description:  The Dan Patch Line's motive power takes a breather a few blocks southwest of Lyndale Avenue down by Ziegler CAT while basking beneath clear, mild skies on the last day of February 2022.
Photo Date:  2/28/2022  Upload Date: 2/28/2022 7:45:13 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  95   Comments: 0
Break Time
Title:  Break Time
Description:  Progressive Rail's Dan Patch Line motive power sits shut off down by Ziegler CAT early on the mild afternoon of the last day of February 2022. PGR 36 now sports a "Join Our Team" banner, promoting PGR to prospective employees.
Photo Date:  2/28/2022  Upload Date: 2/28/2022 7:47:32 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,Winter
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500) PGR 36(SW1500)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Crossing Old Shakopee
Title:  Crossing Old Shakopee
Description:  A Progressive Rail crew with #34 for power crosses Old Shakopee Road with a string of cars for interchange with CP twenty minutes before 9 a.m. on a Friday morning.
Photo Date:  8/26/2022  Upload Date: 8/26/2022 11:15:06 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Reunited
Title:  Reunited
Description:  After being sidelined for mechanical repairs, Progressive Rail 36 is back with its compatriot PGR 34 on the Hi-Line. Here the duo soaks up a very mild October sun at Lyndale early on a Monday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/10/2022  Upload Date: 10/10/2022 8:12:20 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PGR 36(SW1500) PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
Oxboro On A Sunday Morning
Title:  Oxboro On A Sunday Morning
Description:  A view of Oxboro Siding late on a Sunday morning--and the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, 2023.
Photo Date:  5/28/2023  Upload Date: 5/29/2023 9:23:10 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  62   Comments: 0
Low Angle Shot
Title:  Low Angle Shot
Description:  Here is a view of Progressive Rail 34 from a low angle, courtesy of yours truly. She seems quite stately in such a view, no?
Photo Date:  5/28/2023  Upload Date: 5/29/2023 9:18:35 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PGR 34(SW1500)
Views:  67   Comments: 0


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