They kept showing MNS 41 which sadly was turned into Soo 6241 and was scrapped later, but it's twin MNS 40 (an EMD SD-39) Soo 6240 later became property of the Railroad Museum in town but was acquired by the shortline's successor and became Progressive Rail 40 which ran the Lakeville to Northfield turn and eventually ended up on the Wisconsin Northern. They replaced 41 with another SD road unit and is PGR 41 and I understand there's 42 and 43 now. You still see PGR switchers in Bloomington. It's weird but cool how Progressive adopted the old MNS blue livery with the same look of the locomotives and even restored MNS15 (caboose) for use as a business office on the High Line. I never saw this video before but am happy to see it now because it explains so much. I was a little too young when this happened to understand the business reasons for the merger. My dreams of seeing Soo SD40s on the highline never materialized but I did see GP9s and GP35s occasionally during the 1980s.
you can still see some of these loco's in hopkins while they rework the line to light rail to go up 169.... no idea why they think they are going to make money when the previous hiawatha line couldn't survive with the interstate. light rail trains to nowhere that do nothing, not even 10% paying capacity. mn&s to rochester would have been worth while even just passenger line. same if it went from rochester to st cloud then duluth with stops at the airport and st paul river boats
