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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 ...
The 1916 Railroad Commissioners Map of Minnesota listed 87.71 miles of track. Due to the abundance of liver sausage in the logging camps along the line, it was nicknamed the "Gut and Liver Line." [1] Despite its name, the Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway never got within 200 miles of Minneapolis nor within 75 miles of the Rainy River. [2]
The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Control of the railway was acquired on May 10, 2004, by the ...
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (M&StL) (reporting mark MSTL) was an American Class I railroad that built and operated lines radiating south and west from Minneapolis, Minnesota for 90 years from 1870 to 1960. The railway never reached St. Louis (despite its name) but its North Star Limited passenger train ran to that city via the Wabash ...
1919 map of the railroad. Minnesota Dakota and Western Railway (reporting mark MDW) is a shortline railroad operating 4 miles of track between International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota as well as between International Falls and Fort Frances, Ontario via the Fort Frances – International Falls International Bridge, which is jointly owned by MDW and Abitibi Consolidated.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed (commonly referred to as the Milwaukee Road Depot), now officially named The Depot, is a historic railroad depot in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. At its peak, the station served 29 trains per day.
According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press 1964 publication "The Story of Minnesota" by staffer Jerry Fearing, the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Steam Locomotive No. 4 was heading south to St. Paul from Duluth with 400 passengers aboard when the train arrived at Hinckley, Minnesota in the middle of the historic Great Hinckley Fire of 1894.