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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 ...
The Electric Short Line Railway and the affiliated Electric Short Line Railroad (later renamed the Electric Short Line Terminal Co.) were incorporated in late 1908. Construction started in 1909, but it took until 1913 for the first 3.2 miles (5.1 km) to be completed from 3rd Avenue and 7th Street North (construction was in various stages of ...
The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railways [note 1] was a network of railway lines serving sparsely populated areas of south-west Scotland.The title appeared in 1885 when the previously independent Portpatrick Railway (PPR) and Wigtownshire Railway (WR) companies were amalgamated by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railways (Sale and Transfer) Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. clxxxiv) into a ...
[1] Shortlines generally exist for one or more of the following reasons: to link two industries requiring rail freight together (for example, a gypsum mine and a wall board factory, or a coal mine and a power plant) to interchange revenue traffic with other, usually larger, railroads; to operate a tourist passenger train service.
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
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.
Gradients on the line were severe; from Girvan Junction the line climbed at a ruling gradient of 1 in 54 to Pinmore, altitude 394 feet (120 m), and then fell at 1 in 69 to Pinwherry. There followed an eight-mile climb at 1 in 67 to a summit at 690 feet (210 m); then there was a long descent at up to 1 in 56 all the way to Challoch Junction.
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 ...