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The Dakota Rail Trail runs 28.1 miles (42.6 km) from Wayzata to Lester Prairie, Minnesota. It is on part of the former track bed of the Hutchinson Spur of the Great Northern Railway . The railway line helped bring wheat and raw materials from Central Minnesota to the flour mills , factories and warehouses in Minneapolis from 1885 until 2001.
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8,368 miles (13,467 km) GN's 4-8-4 S-2 "Northern" class locomotive #2584 and nearby sculpture, U.S.–Canada Friendship in Havre, Montana. The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J ...
American Tobacco Trail. The American Tobacco Trail (ATT) is a 22.6-mile (36.4 km) long Rails-to-Trails project located in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, running along an abandoned railroad bed originally built for the American Tobacco Company in the 1970s. The route crosses through portions of Durham County (including the City ...
Big Rivers Regional Trail. Coordinates: 44°52′02″N 93°10′26″W. An outcropping of sandstone topped by limestone along the river bluffs. Big Rivers Regional Trail is a paved 4.5-mile (7.2 km) rail trail that overlooks the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers along the northern edge of Dakota County, Minnesota, United States.
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Length. 82 miles (132 km) Dakota Rail, Inc. (reporting mark DAKR) was a short-line railroad which operated in South Dakota and Minnesota. It operated from 1982 until 2001. From 1995 onward it was a subsidiary of RailAmerica.
Jul. 28—It's been years in the making, but the Robert Piram Regional Trail is officially open to the public. And with it comes an important missing link in the regional bike corridor that ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (reporting mark DME) is a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City. [1] Before its purchase, it was the largest Class II railroad in the United States, [2] operating across South Dakota and southern Minnesota in the Northern Plains of ...