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The Electric Short Line Railway, also known as Luce Electric Lines, was a railroad that operated in Minnesota, originating in Minneapolis and heading westward. The railroad owes its nickname to the fact it was operated by members of the Luce family. The railroad ultimately reached beyond Clara City to Gluek.
The Electric Short Line Railway was a system that was built from 1917-1927. It extended from Minneapolis to Gluek, serving the small towns in between. The railway changed hands a few times before being abandoned throughout the late 1960s to early 1970s. The Luce Line State Trail was completed west of Plymouth after the line was abandoned in ...
City of Prineville Railway: COPR Coos Bay Rail Line: CBR Goose Lake Railway: GOOS Klamath Northern Railway: KNOR Mount Hood Railroad: MH Oregon Pacific Railroad: OPR Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad: PCC Peninsula Terminal Railroad: PT Portland and Western Railroad: PNWR Portland Terminal Railroad: PTRC Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad: POTB
A locomotive of the Kyle Railroad, a shortline railroad that runs from north-central Kansas into eastern Colorado. A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks.
Passenger train service through the depot declined from a peak of 125 daily trains during World War II to just one route when Amtrak began operation in 1971—the Empire Builder. [3] Amtrak opted to consolidate all of its Twin Cities service at the Great Northern Depot, shuttering St. Paul's Union Depot.
The Union Pacific intended the line to be the shortest route ("the short line") from Wyoming to Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Construction was begun in 1881 at Granger, Wyoming, and completed in 1884 at Huntington, Oregon. In 1889 the line merged with the Utah & Northern Railway and a handful of smaller railroads to become the Oregon Short ...
The Soo Line's loss of the Spine Line and the transfer of southbound freight to the former Milwaukee Road route to Northfield reduced service on the entire MN&S for the next 25 years. By 1997, six years after the Soo Line was purchased by Canadian Pacific, the last train had gone between Lakeville and Savage, and the tracks have remained out-of ...
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway: Superior Belt Line and Terminal Railway: GN: 1891 1900 Duluth, Superior and Western Terminal Company, Eastern Railway of Minnesota: Superior and St. Croix Railroad: NP: 1870 1896 Northern Pacific Railway: Superior Short Line Railway: CNW: 1884 1895 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway