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M. Mesaba Railway; Milwaukee Road; The Milwaukee Road, Inc. Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway; Minneapolis Municipal Waterworks Railway; Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway
With this increased service to the area, the construction crews returned in 1880 and built a branch line to Doon, Iowa. It was the only railroad in the area until a few years later when the Great Northern Railway built a branch line in the area. The Doon line was abandoned in 1933. [citation needed]
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.
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 .
St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Minnesota Short Lines Company: MSLC Minnesota and South Dakota Railway: CNW: 1899 1900 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Minnesota Transfer Railway: MTFR CB&Q/ CGW/ CNW/ CP/ GN/ MILW/ MSTL/ NP/ RI: 1883 1987 Minnesota Commercial Railway: Minnesota Valley Railroad: CNW: 1864 1870 St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad ...
The railroad owes its nickname to the fact it was operated by members of the Luce family. The railroad ultimately reached beyond Clara City to Gluek. Today, the line has mostly been abandoned, but its former right-of-way now hosts the Luce Line State Trail operated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
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.
The Minnesota and International Railway Trestle at Blackduck in Beltrami County, Minnesota was the longest timber trestle in the state. [2] It was built in 1901 and 1902 by the Minnesota and International Railway, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad, on a line between Koochiching (now International Falls) and Bemidji, Minnesota, where it met a branch line of the parent railroad ...