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The Minnesota Southern Railway (reporting mark MSWY) was a shortline railroad in the states of Minnesota and South Dakota in the United States.
Rochester and Northern Minnesota Railway: CNW: 1877 1881 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Root River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad: MILW: 1855 1857 Southern Minnesota Railroad: St. Cloud and Lake Traverse Railway: GN: 1880 1880 St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: St. Cloud, Mankato and Austin Railroad: GN: 1865 1886
The Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway (reporting mark MNS) was an 87-mile (140 km) long American shortline railroad connecting Minneapolis and Northfield, Minnesota. It was incorporated in 1918 to take over the trackage of the former Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company, also known as the Dan Patch ...
MNS - Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway; Soo Line Railroad; Canadian Pacific Railway MNTX - Minnesota Transportation Museum MNWX - Minnesota Department of Public Service ( Weights and Measures Division )
On the other hand, a large amount of mileage was spun off in 1987 to Wisconsin Central Ltd., now part of the Canadian National Railway. The Soo Line Railroad and the Delaware and Hudson Railway, CPKC's other major subsidiary (before the 2008 DM&E acquisition), presently do business as the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).
The Land Grant Act of Congress approved March 3, 1857, when Minnesota was still a Territory and not a state, conferred on the then called Southern Minnesota Railroad Company "lands, interests, rights, powers and privileges" for the proposed line of railroad from St. Paul via Mankato, Minnesota, and other points named to the southern boundary of ...
For more information on the MStPR&D and the MNS Ry., see the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway page. The Dan Patch Corridor was the brainchild of entrepreneur Marion Willis Savage. Incorporated in 1907 as the Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company (MStPR&D), the line began service in 1908 as a passenger ...
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.