User:Mulad/Desired images

This is a list of articles where images (or more appropriate ones) would be really great to have:

Rail transportation

Stations

Track diagrams would also be great for stations

• Minneapolis Great Northern Depot
• The Saint Paul Union Depot article could use an image from when trains were running up until 1971, or at least a better shot of the concourse leading out to the tracks.

Active railroads and subsidiaries

Many of these don't have any images. New or updated route maps would also be helpful.

• Airlake Terminal Railway
• Cedar River Railroad
• Cloquet Terminal Railroad
• Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
• Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway
• Iowa Interstate Railroad – has a shot, but it's at a poor angle looking up at a bridge
• Minnesota Commercial Railway – has a shot, but it's an obstructed view
• Minnesota, Dakota and Western Railway
• Minnesota Northern Railroad
• Minnesota Prairie Line, Inc.
• Minnesota Southern Railway
• Northern Lines Railway
• Northern Plains Railroad
• Otter Tail Valley Railroad
• Red River Valley and Western Railroad
• Soo Line Railroad – has an image, but at a poor angle (and with a fairly dirty locomotive)

Defunct railroads and interurbans/streetcars

• Electric Short Line Railway – "Luce Line"
• Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range Railroad and related companies
• Minneapolis, Lyndale and Lake Calhoun Railway – "Motor Line"
• St. Paul & Pacific Railroad – earliest predecessor to Great Northern, started operation in 1862
• Winona and St. Peter Railroad – also started operation in 1862

Bridges

• Stone Arch Bridge back when it was carrying trains.
• Northern Pacific Bridge Number 9 from when it carried train traffic

Named trains

• Better shots of the Empire Builder:
  • More iconic photo for Amtrak (possibly in the mountainous west or along the Mississippi River near Lake City, Minnesota)
  • A better view of the train back in the Great Northern era that shows locomotives. A tail-end view of the train might also be nice if it was running with an observation car.
• Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Twin Cities Zephyr:
  • Images showing the evolution of the locomotives from slant-nose to bull-nose would be nice. A side-on view showing the articulation in early trains would also be excellent.
• Milwaukee Road's Twin Cities Hiawatha (aka Hiawatha, Morning Hiawatha, Afternoon Hiawatha):
  • The train was orange, so color photos would be desired.
  • Good shots with streamlined locomotives in front, both steam and diesel would be good.
  • Images showing the evolution of the observation cars into skytop lounge would be excellent (there is a beavertail image, but others would also be good).
  • Amtrak also ran a train they called the Twin Cities Hiawatha, which may also be interesting.
• Chicago and North Western Railway's Twin Cities 400
  • A shot of the early heavyweight steam version of the train would be good.
  • A shot of a drumhead from the steam train era with "The “400”" printed on it.
  • A shot of a streamlined diesel train somewhere, particularly with the locomotives included. Color would be desired, since it was yellow and green.

Road transportation

Bus providers

• Metro Transit – We need a picture of the "BRT" livery (yellow front, yellow/blue swooshes on side)
• U of M Campus Shuttle
• Minnesota Valley Transit Authority
• SouthWest Transit
• Plymouth Metrolink
• Maple Grove Transit
• Scott County Transit
• Metro Mobility

Routes/stations/transitways

• List of Metro Transit routes – Popular bus routes could use images. Photos taken at signature locations along the routes (e.g., the 16 at the U of M or state capitol, the 84 in Highland Park or at Rosedale, the 5 at the Midtown Exchange transit center, etc.) would be best.
  • Since these mostly only appear as thumbnails (though they should be zoomable), files can be relatively small (1 to 4 megapixels would probably be appropriate)
• U of M Transitway
• I-35W Bus Rapid Transitway
  • Particularly 46th Street/Kingfield station