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By:Tony Held
Dates:1/1/2005 - 4/22/2024
Album Info:Views of the Blue Line, Green Line, and SWLRT.
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A View From The Railfan's Seat
Title:  A View From The Railfan's Seat
Description:  The "railfan seat" on an LRT or streetcar is the one directly behind the driver, in which you can get a view over their shoulder of the line ahead. In this shot, we are approaching the curve before the Bloomington Central station on a pleasant early October Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  10/8/2005  Upload Date: 3/30/2008 8:58:11 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  295   Comments: 0
Northbound LRT at Downtown East/Metrodome station
Title:  Northbound LRT at Downtown East/Metrodome station
Description:  A northbound LRT makes it's stop at the Downtown East/Metrodome station.
Photo Date:  10/22/2005  Upload Date: 3/30/2008 8:59:00 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  210   Comments: 0
Swinging Onto The Reborn Milwaukee Road
Title:  Swinging Onto The Reborn Milwaukee Road
Description:  This southbound LRT departing Downtown East/ Metrodome Station is swinging onto where the tracks occupy the old Milwuakee Road passenger line right-of-way that once connected to the now-landlocked Milwuakee Road depot on Washington Avenue. Sure is nice to see this right-of-way sporting rails again!
Photo Date:  10/22/2005  Upload Date: 3/30/2008 8:59:16 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  228   Comments: 0
Two-car LRT At Lake Street/Midtown Station
Title:  Two-car LRT At Lake Street/Midtown Station
Description:  A two-car LRT set southbound for the airport and Mall of America gets ready to depart from the elevated Lake Street/ Midtown station at Lake street in southeast Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  2/25/2006  Upload Date: 3/30/2008 9:08:49 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  188   Comments: 0
MTC 108B at Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station.
Title:  MTC 108B at Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station.
Description:  Here is MTC LRT 108B at the Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on a gorgeous summer Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  8/5/2006  Upload Date: 10/16/2006 4:45:55 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  MTC 108(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  448   Comments: 1
Northbound twin LRT set at Government Plaza Station
Title:  Northbound twin LRT set at Government Plaza Station
Description:  Pausing at Government Plaza station is LRT 113A and a sister unit on a two car Route 55 train. The grey skies hint of an impending winter storm only an hour away as the train nears the end of it's northbound run from the Mall Of America.
Photo Date:  12/30/2006  Upload Date: 12/30/2006 5:41:59 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  MTC 113A(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
Arriving At The Soon-To-Be Second To Last Northbound Stop
Title:  Arriving At The Soon-To-Be Second To Last Northbound Stop
Description:  A two car LRT set with a colorful one "wrapped" in a promotional paint job for Sun Country Airlines (apt, given the Hiawatha serves Mpls/St. Paul International) rolls in to the Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue station. Soon to be the second-to-last stop when the extension to the Northstar Corridor (and, yes, that monstrosity known as Target Field) is completed.
Photo Date:  4/23/2009  Upload Date: 4/23/2009 9:34:08 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Locomotives:  MTC 114(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
Plain Jane LRT
Title:  Plain Jane LRT
Description:  A plain Jane LRT and a more colorful one up front rest at Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue after their journey north from the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  4/23/2009  Upload Date: 4/23/2009 9:34:40 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  183   Comments: 0
Come Fly With Me
Title:  Come Fly With Me
Description:  Now there is a colorful LRT car. This one is all dolled-up promoting Sun Country airlines. It and a plainer LRT car behind it have just arrived at Warehouse District/Hennepin Avenue on a glorious late April afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/23/2009  Upload Date: 4/23/2009 9:35:08 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Krebes
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
Minneapolis Ho
Title:  Minneapolis Ho
Description:  The northbound LRT from the MOA comes into 28th Avenue two minutes after advertised on the schedule at the station (i.e. 11:06 as opposed to 11:03). I only planned to ride for a couple stops, though.
Photo Date:  5/30/2011  Upload Date: 5/31/2011 10:39:48 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 121(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Swinging Over 55
Title:  Swinging Over 55
Description:  A two-car Route 55 LRT heads across Highway 55 beneath unusually dreary late June skies.
Photo Date:  6/25/2011  Upload Date: 6/26/2011 7:45:36 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  181   Comments: 0
Unwrapped LRTs!
Title:  Unwrapped LRTs!
Description:  An "unwrapped" trio of LRT cars pauses at Ft. Snelling. I rode this baby up from the Lindbergh Terminal stop. Don't forget about the sign to the left, folks!
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:46:08 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 118(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
Says It All
Title:  Says It All
Description:  This sign says "This must be the joint" to LRT travelers here.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:27:37 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  162   Comments: 0
Green Light Go!
Title:  Green Light Go!
Description:  A snow-speckled signal at the Ft. Snelling LRT depot shines green in anticipation of the arrival of the next northbound to downtown Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:21:50 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Wow!
Title:  Wow!
Description:  A look up the northbound track at the underground Lindbergh Terminal LRT station.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:27:59 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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"Paid Fare Zone"
Title:  "Paid Fare Zone"
Description:  A sign gives out sage advice as a northbound LRT arrives at Ft. Snelling station.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:34:38 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 122(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
This Is The Big Apple?
Title:  This Is The Big Apple?
Description:  In a scene fit for a New York City subway, a northbound LRT arrives at the Lindbergh Terminal station buried deep beneath the airport.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:22:21 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 107(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Coming Up For Air
Title:  Coming Up For Air
Description:  A northbound LRT nears the end of the tunnel under the airport.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:41:21 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Title:  Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
Description:  The train I rode up from Lindbergh Terminal after hopping a southbound at Ft. Snelling resumes its journey without me towards downtown.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:46:30 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 118(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  221   Comments: 0
Minneapolis Ho!
Title:  Minneapolis Ho!
Description:  A plain-jane LRT brings up the rear of two "wrapped" for Qwest cars as the train hums north from Ft. Snelling.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:35:20 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 125(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
Qwest Cars
Title:  Qwest Cars
Description:  The first two cars on a three-car northbound LRT stopping at Ft. Snelling station are "wrapped" for Qwest ones.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:34:58 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 119(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Farewell Fort Snelling
Title:  Farewell Fort Snelling
Description:  The driver of a southbound LRT just stopped for the Ft. Snelling station stop begins to accelerate away on the trip south to the mega mall on a cold, grey day fit for the Twin Cities in winter.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:15:20 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Into The Tunnel
Title:  Into The Tunnel
Description:  A southbound LRT plunges under the Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:42:02 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  138   Comments: 0
Southbound Through The Snow
Title:  Southbound Through The Snow
Description:  A southbound LRT races away from the Ft. Snelling station through an urban winter scene painted in snow the night before.
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/4/2011 7:16:00 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  154   Comments: 0
Buses And LRTs
Title:  Buses And LRTs
Description:  The second of a two-car LRT set awaits departure north to Minneapolis as a Minnesota Valley Transit Authority bus arrives at the Mall of America station in the left background.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 2:03:16 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 101(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
National Guard Scheme
Title:  National Guard Scheme
Description:  The first of a two-car LRT set arriving at Mall of America station is "wrapped" in a paint scheme promoting the National Guard.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 1:53:54 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 113(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
We're There
Title:  We're There
Description:  The southbound LRT stops at last at its final destination on its trip south from Target Field station in Minneapolis: the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 1:54:15 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 124(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  225   Comments: 0
Almost There
Title:  Almost There
Description:  This southbound LRT has but a few hundred more feet to go before it arrives at the Mall of America station as dusk descends outside in the background.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 1:50:52 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  152   Comments: 0
Easing Up To The Signal
Title:  Easing Up To The Signal
Description:  The driver of this northbound two-car LRT eases his train up to the red signal prior to departing north minutes before a southbound LRT arrives during the waning minutes of daylight on a remarkably mild second-to-last day of January.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 2:03:35 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 111(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
National Guard!
Title:  National Guard!
Description:  An LRT car wrapped for the national guard is tail end-Charlie on a three-car northbound LRT about to depart Bloomington Central as fast as it arrived.
Photo Date:  2/7/2012  Upload Date: 2/9/2012 4:22:49 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 113(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Healthy Living
Title:  Healthy Living
Description:  The second LRT car of a three-car southbound LRT sports a colorful paint job promoting "healthy living" as it arrives at Bloomington Central.
Photo Date:  2/7/2012  Upload Date: 2/9/2012 4:25:48 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 115(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
Southbound At Bloomington Central
Title:  Southbound At Bloomington Central
Description:  A three-car LRT train arrives at Bloomington Central on the last miles to MOA station.
Photo Date:  2/7/2012  Upload Date: 2/9/2012 4:24:16 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 117(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Into The Setting Sun
Title:  Into The Setting Sun
Description:  A portrait of the third LRT of a three LRT-car southbound light rail train as it arrives at Bloomington Central amidst the setting sun.
Photo Date:  2/7/2012  Upload Date: 2/9/2012 4:26:07 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 112(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  292   Comments: 0
Compensation For The Great Train Store
Title:  Compensation For The Great Train Store
Description:  As the sun sets on a Tuesday evening, a two-car northbound LRT crosses 24th Avenue south as it departs Mall of America bound for Target Field station in Minneapolis. Picture was taken from the south side of the east parking ramp. Random thought: the LRT now calling here makes up for there no longer being a Great Train Store at MOA!
Photo Date:  4/3/2012  Upload Date: 4/4/2012 3:27:35 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  247   Comments: 0
Waiting For The Northbound To Clear
Title:  Waiting For The Northbound To Clear
Description:  A three-car LRT train with the lead LRT in plain MTC paint and the trailing ones "wrapped" for the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living store at MOA and for an advertising campaign for Montana waits for a northbound two-car LRT to clear before proceeding into MOA station.
Photo Date:  4/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/12/2012 8:35:55 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Matched Sets!
Title:  Matched Sets!
Description:  A perfectly matched pair of two-car LRT lashups -the lead LRT's "wrapped" for American Family Insurance, the trailing ones in plain MTC paint- meet as the northbound of the pair departs MOA station crossing 24th avenue as it emerges from the transit center below the east parking ramp.
Photo Date:  4/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/12/2012 8:37:30 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  144   Comments: 0
Minneapolis Bound
Title:  Minneapolis Bound
Description:  After passing its southbound cousin, a two-car LRT with the lead car "wrapped" for American Family Insurace and a plain MTC paint one trailing heads up the line bound for Minneapolis from MOA station as viewed from the east parking ramp.
Photo Date:  4/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/12/2012 8:37:44 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  135   Comments: 0
Plain Duo
Title:  Plain Duo
Description:  A two-car LRT set in plain MTC paint passes one of the many parking lots that can be found near Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport as it heads for downtown Minneapolis.
Photo Date:  4/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/12/2012 8:37:55 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  143   Comments: 0
Crossing 24th Avenue
Title:  Crossing 24th Avenue
Description:  The plain MTC paint lead LRT of a three LRT set departing northbound for Minneapolis eases across 24th Avenue on a mild Monday evening in late May.
Photo Date:  5/21/2012  Upload Date: 5/21/2012 10:46:53 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  152   Comments: 0
Wrapped LRT In The Middle
Title:  Wrapped LRT In The Middle
Description:  A beer brand-wrapped LRT is sandwhiched between two plain-painted ones on this northbound train just out of the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  5/21/2012  Upload Date: 5/21/2012 10:49:22 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  149   Comments: 0
Amidst The Hotels
Title:  Amidst The Hotels
Description:  A wrapped LRT and a plain-painted compatriot make up this two-car southbound LRT about to stop at the American Blvd station nestled amidst the hotels near the airport.
Photo Date:  6/13/2012  Upload Date: 6/14/2012 7:55:18 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  156   Comments: 0
Rolling Around The Curve
Title:  Rolling Around The Curve
Description:  A two-car southbound LRT -lead car wrapped, trailing car plain MTC paint- arriving at the Mall of America as viewed from the New York level of the MOA's east parking garage.
Photo Date:  7/23/2012  Upload Date: 7/24/2012 11:27:20 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  35   Comments: 0
LRT And Bus
Title:  LRT And Bus
Description:  Once upon a time, the likes of buses such as the one operated by MVTA in the right foreground banished the streetcar. Now the successor to the streetcar co-exists with the bus in harmony thanks to clear-headed thinking on the part of transit planners as opposed to the rank greed and short sightedness (IMO) which sent the Twin City streetcar system to Valhalla in the 1950s. This two-car LRT is crossing 24th avenue about to arrive at the MOA transit center. The car wrapped for TCF bank is a colorful contrast to the plain paint of the car ahead.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:21:19 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  75   Comments: 1
There's My Old Employer Again
Title:  There's My Old Employer Again
Description:  The day before I had caught this LRT wrapped for Cub Foods (my old employer) on the curve east of MOA station, and then I caught it again a day later (probably still coupled to the same plain paint LRT trailing it) as it arrived at 28th Avenue station on another northbound run to Minneapolis. Wish the clouds had been out a bit more so it wasn't so backlit.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:21:38 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Backlit LRTs
Title:  Backlit LRTs
Description:  I caught this two car southbound LRT accelerating out of the 28th avenue station. Alas, because of not much cloud cover my vantage point of the parking garage here was something of a double-edged sword that cut both ways as evidenced by how the LRTs are backlit. Still is a good vantage point for LRT photography, though!
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 8/22/2012 5:22:10 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Working On The Railroad
Title:  Working On The Railroad
Description:  Service from 28th Street to the Mall of America was replaced by buses due to work being done. Kere a crew attends to its repair work beneath grey skies that would brighten by noon. Note the dazzling fall color on the tree to the left of the pickup truck.
Photo Date:  10/14/2012  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 2:41:14 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Second Car
Title:  Second Car
Description:  Kere is the second LRT on a southbound three-unit Route 55 just after it arrived at the Mall of America.
Photo Date:  11/25/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 12:50:23 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 107(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Well That Is New
Title:  Well That Is New
Description:  A northbound Route 55 rounds the curve near MOA almost to 28th Avenue station. The trailing "wrapped" car is promoting the musical based on the 2003 flick "Elf" that is in production at the Ordway.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 6:45:04 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  36   Comments: 0
Almost To The Bumper Posts
Title:  Almost To The Bumper Posts
Description:  Here comes a three-LRT Route 55 as the driver eases it up to the bumper posts at the Mall of America transit center.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 12:50:04 PM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Locomotives:  MTC 107(Flexity Swift LRT)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
Just Out Of 28th Avenue
Title:  Just Out Of 28th Avenue
Description:  A southbound 2-car Route 55 is captured just out of 28th Avenue on its last southbound lap.
Photo Date:  11/26/2012  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 6:44:44 AM
Location:  Bloomington, MN
Author:  Richard Held
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Views:  43   Comments: 0


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