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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
Founded as the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad, it was the state's first active railroad. [1] [2] It went bankrupt, and the state changed its name to the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad. The SP&P went bankrupt as well. It was taken over by James Jerome Hill and others, who used the railroad as the basis for building the Great Northern Railway.
Pennsylvania Railroad system map in 1893. The Pennsy's charter was supplemented on March 23, 1853, to allow it to purchase stock and guarantee bonds of railroads in other states, up to a percentage of its capital stock. Several lines were then aided by the Pennsy in hopes to secure additional traffic.
Duluth, Minnesota: Lake Superior Railroad Museum: In June 1962, the Great Northern transferred ownership to the Minnesota Historical Society Was at Saint Paul Union Depot from June 1954 to 1975 1147: F-8: 2-8-0: 8/1902: 6/1956: Wenatchee, Washington: Lions Locomotive Park 1100 South Wenatchee Avenue: Location also called "Mission Street Park ...
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.
A well-used Soo Line ore car, built in 1916. Hauling iron ore was an important part of the Soo Line's business.. The Soo Line was never a major carrier of passenger traffic since its route between Chicago and Minneapolis was much longer than the competing Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), Chicago and North Western Railway, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ...
Rail yard facilities just south of downtown, on Hiawatha Avenue north of Lake Street, serviced the trains. [2] By 1920, the peak of activity, 29 trains per day used the depot. [4] Into the 1960s, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (or Rock Island) operated the Twin Star Rocket bound for Houston, via Des Moines and Dallas from the ...
The Minnesota Southern Railway (reporting mark MSWY) was a shortline railroad in the states of Minnesota and South Dakota in the United States. History as Chicago and North Western Railway [ edit ]