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St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Minnesota Short Lines Company: MSLC Minnesota and South Dakota Railway: CNW: 1899 1900 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Minnesota Transfer Railway: MTFR CB&Q/ CGW/ CNW/ CP/ GN/ MILW/ MSTL/ NP/ RI: 1883 1987 Minnesota Commercial Railway: Minnesota Valley Railroad: CNW: 1864 1870 St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad ...
Hastings Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota. It is one of only four lift spans on the Mississippi River, the others being at Hannibal, Missouri, Burlington, Iowa and in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. It was built in 1981 by Milwaukee Road and was designed by Howard, Needles, Tammen ...
The Stillwater and Hastings Railway only completed five miles (8 km) of track before being acquired by the Milwaukee Road in 1882, which completed the construction. [ 3 ] During this period in the 1880s, Stillwater was a busy trade center, handling traffic from miners and trappers from the north of town and from farmers and lumbermen from the west.
The line's origins trace to the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company, which started building a line from Saint Paul southward along the river in 1865. The line was completed to Minnesota City in 1870, and made a junction with the Winona and St. Peter Railroad (under control of the Chicago and North Western Railway) in 1871.
Dakota County's historic sites convey the county's significant historical trends, including the settlement at Mendota, the homes of well-heeled residents of Hastings, the ethnic gathering places in South Saint Paul, and other sites related to life on the prairie, including religion, education, transportation, commerce, and the business of farming.
The company extended them to Ortonville, Minnesota by 1879. The Hastings and Dakota Railroad had a large junction at Cologne, Minnesota to access this line. It was taken over by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the 1880s. Milwaukee Later built the Lake Street depression to connect to St. Paul, which was known as "the ...
The Twin Cities and Western Railroad (reporting mark TCWR) is a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Minnesota which started operations on July 27, 1991. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Trackage includes the former Soo Line Railroad "Ortonville Line", originally built as the first part of the Pacific extension of the Milwaukee Road .
The St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.It is one of only three vertical-lift bridges along the Mississippi River, along with the Hastings Rail Bridge in Hastings, Minnesota, and the Wabash Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri.