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The Minnesota Southern Railway (reporting mark MSWY) was a shortline railroad in the states of Minnesota and South Dakota in the United States.
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 ...
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 Minnesota Western Railway was acquired by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway on January 31 1956. On September 8, 1959, M&St.L renamed the line the Minneapolis Industrial Railway. [4] (Despite the new name, only a lone MW caboose received the MIR logo). M&StL came under control of the Chicago and North Western Railway on November 1, 1960 ...
The Twin Cities and Western Railroad (reporting mark TCWR) is a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Minnesota which started operations on July 27, 1991. [1] [2] Trackage includes the former Soo Line Railroad "Ortonville Line", originally built as the first part of the Pacific extension of the Milwaukee Road.
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.
Soo Line 6022, an EMD SD60, pulls a train through Wisconsin Dells on June 20, 2004. The present Soo Line Railroad was incorporated in Minnesota on October 19, 1949, as the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad, as part of the plan for reorganizing the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSA) and
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minnesota (a southern suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul), Progressive Rail, Inc. was established in 1996 to initially serve the Airlake Industrial Park. In 2001, they leased the former Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway "High Line" in Bloomington and Richfield and started restoring trackage. [ 3 ]