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  2. Category:Railroad museums in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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  3. Luce Line Trail - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Electric Short Line Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Minnesota Western Railway was acquired by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1956 and was renamed the Minneapolis Industrial Railway in September 1959. M&StL came under control of the Chicago and North Western Railway on November 1, 1960. The MW subsequently saw deferred maintenance and reduced service as the C&NW sought to abandon ...

  5. List of museums in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    The state's official natural history museum, established in 1872 for research and display of the state's plants and animals. Operated by the University of Minnesota, the museum is home to world renowned wildlife dioramas, the first discovery room in North America, and state-of-the-art digital planetarium. The museum opened a new building on the ...

  6. Luce, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Luce, Minnesota. 2 languages. Deutsch; ... Luce was platted in 1884 on the Northern Pacific Railroad. [2] A post office was established at Luce in 1883, and remained ...

  7. Twin Cities and Western Railroad - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Minnesota Transportation Museum - Wikipedia

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    Many of the museum's early members were formerly part of the Minnesota Railfans Association, which had organized railfan trips from the 1940s to the 1960s. In 2004–2005, the organization's streetcar operations became the Minnesota Streetcar Museum , with the steamboat Minnehaha , originally built by TCRT in a style similar to its streetcars ...

  9. List of railway museums - Wikipedia

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    A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.