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Northern Lights Express. The Northern Lights Express (NLX) project is a planned higher-speed rail service that would run 155 miles (249 km) between Minneapolis and Duluth primarily in the U.S. state of Minnesota. A portion of the proposed line would run through neighboring Wisconsin to serve Duluth's "Twin Port" of Superior.
edit. The North Star was a passenger train operated by Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) between Duluth, Minnesota and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It originally operated from Chicago, Illinois via St. Paul to Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, but was soon cut back to a Saint Paul–Duluth train. The service relied in part on funding ...
Northstar Line. The Northstar Line (reporting mark MNRX) is a commuter rail route in the US state of Minnesota. Northstar runs 40 miles (64 km) from Big Lake to downtown Minneapolis at Target Field using existing track and right-of-way owned by the BNSF Railway. Passenger service began on November 16, 2009. [4][1] The rail line serves part of ...
Successful Borealis service will make it easier for other passenger rail service to move forward, he said, including the Northern Lights Express between the Twin Cities and Duluth and an extension ...
Milwaukee Road, EMD F7B #X1: Sold to the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad; Minntac, EMD SW9 #935: Sold to Cargill, to provide funds for the purchase of GN #192; North Shore Scenic Railroad #652, EMD GP9, Ex-MKT 95: Sold to Minnesota Northern as ILSX 1380. Northern States Power Co, EMD SW1 #1364: Given to Rail Legacy Museum, St. Cloud
Along with the Northern Lights Express and the Rochester link, a line eastward to Eau Claire, Wisconsin was identified in 2009 as a Phase I corridor for implementation before 2030. It would use "enhanced conventional" service of 79 to 90 mph (127 to 145 km/h) and would likely make use of existing rails owned by the Union Pacific Railroad (ex ...
The Northern Lights Express to Duluth would originate at Target Field. Potential regional rail routes from Target Field station include the Dakota Rail Corridor to Hutchinson, the Dan Patch Corridor to Northfield, the Little Crow Line to Willmar, the Red Rock Corridor to Hastings, and the Minnesota Prairie Line to Norwood Young America.
Description. The Arrowhead began on April 16, 1975, as a daily all-coach train between Minneapolis and Superior, Wisconsin, with no intervening stops along the 144-mile (232 km) route. This service replaced the Burlington Northern Badger and Gopher trains that were terminated in 1971.