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The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad (LS&M) was the first rail link between the Twin Cities and Duluth and came into existence in 1863 when financier Jay Cooke selected Duluth as the northern end of a new railroad. Lyman Dayton, a local businessman put up $10,000 of his own money to do the original surveying work and served as the ...
The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota.
Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway: Duluth, Red Wing and Southern Railroad: DRWS CGW: 1886 1901 Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railroad: Duluth, St. Cloud, Glencoe and Mankato Railway: DSCG MILW: 1900 1910 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Duluth Short Line Railway: DSLR NP: 1886 1898 St. Paul and Duluth Railroad: Duluth, South Shore ...
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) was a railroad company in the U.S. state of Minnesota.It was one of the earliest iron ore hauling railroads of the area, said to have built the largest iron ore docks in the world, and later was one of the constituent railroads in the merger that formed the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
The Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad Company was incorporated under the general laws of the State of Minnesota on March 21, 1892, for a period of 50 years. No general books of this company can be found. The information herein is taken from miscellaneous records in possession of the Great Northern.
The St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, a railroad in Minnesota and Wisconsin, operated independently from 1877, when it was reorganized from the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, until 1900, when it was bought by the Northern Pacific Railway. It was nicknamed named the "Skally Line", likely based upon the Anglicization of the Swedish word ...
The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad (reporting mark D&IR) [1] was founded in 1874. In 1884, it ran the first main line train between Two Harbors and Soudan, Minnesota, a total distance of 68 miles. In July 1938, the railway merged with the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway to form the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
He bought bonds for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, part of the Northern Pacific Railway and secured an interest in the Western Land Association with the intent of uniting Lake Superior and the Mississippi, as well as reaching European markets through the Great Lakes. He believed the lumber industry would be furthered by the road ...