Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Northstar Line is a state and federally funded commuter rail line that serves a region from Minneapolis northwest toward the central Minnesota city of St. Cloud.The line began service on November 16, 2009, and runs about half the distance to St. Cloud, terminating in Big Lake, with bus service covering the remaining distance.
The Northern Lights Express would be the first passenger rail service to Duluth since 1986, when Amtrak discontinued the 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) North Star. [1] Alternatives analysis and a corridor assessment report were complete as of mid-2010. [3]
Dakota Rail, Inc. DAKR 1985 2000 N/A Des Moines Valley Railway of Minnesota: DMVR CNW: 1899 1900 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad: DMNR MILW: 1877 1878 Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque and Minnesota Railroad: Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad: DSCR IC: 1888 1946 Illinois Central Railroad: Duluth Beltline
In July 2009, before the Northstar Commuter Rail commuter line began operation, this segment had hosted 63 trains per day. [37] The Minnesota Department of Transportation would like to run more passenger trains through the corridor, including Northstar and other proposed passenger rail routes like the proposed Northern Lights Express to Duluth ...
The North Star was a passenger train operated by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) between Duluth, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It originally operated from Chicago, Illinois via St. Paul to Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, but was soon cut back to a Saint Paul–Duluth train. The service relied in part on funding from ...
During the following War years, the trains had as many as 15 cars, and one of the 1942 cars painted in patriotic red, white & blue proclaiming "Buy War Bonds". Trains were so full that people had to sit on suitcases or stand in aisles. In 1947–1948 the Milwaukee Road again re-equipped its major passenger routes with new lightweight cars.
Zip Rail is a proposed passenger train that would link the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area with the city of Rochester, also in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The project was previously branded as Rochester Rail Link. North American High Speed Rail Group (NAHSR) proposed building a high-speed rail line on the same route. This ...
The Minnesota 400 was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway on its southern Minnesota line between Mankato, Minnesota and Wyeville, Wisconsin. It began running in 1936. In 1950 it was extended to run between Chicago, Illinois and Huron, South Dakota and renamed the Dakota 400.