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The Saint Louis River (abbreviated St. Louis River) is a river in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior. The largest U.S. river to flow into the lake, it is 192 miles (309 km) in length [1] and starts 13 miles (21 km) east of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. The river's watershed covers 3,634 square miles (9,410 km 2).
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 ...
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 St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway: St. Croix Railway and ...
St. Louis River (Minnesota, Wisconsin), 192 mi-long (309 km) Map of the Saint Louis River drainage basin showing the Cloquet River Pokegama River , 26.3 mi-long (42.3 km) Red River , 10.6 mi-long (17.1 km)
Amtrak Midwest is a brand name applied by Amtrak to its state-supported routes in the Midwest states of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri. [1] As of May 2024, Amtrak Midwest consists of eleven named trains:
The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad (LS&M) was the first rail link between the Twin Cities and Duluth and came into existence in 1863 when financier Jay Cooke selected Duluth as the northern end of a new railroad. Lyman Dayton, a local businessman put up $10,000 of his own money to do the original surveying work and served as the ...
The Oliver Bridge is a bridge across the Saint Louis River.It was constructed in 1910 as a railway bridge [1] by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, under special federal authorization from the 60th United States Congress.
For decades prior to the sale to the Soo Line, the MN&S had a lucrative business interchanging with several Class I railroads. [3] Rock Island and Milwaukee Road at Northfield, C&NW at Savage, Soo Line at Crystal, M&StL at St Louis Park, Great Northern at Cedar Lake Yard in Minneapolis, and CGW over trackage rights between Randolph and Northfield.