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St. Paul Union Depot reopens
Well, the light rail (trolley) line isn’t in place yet, and Amtrak will avoid Minneapolis and Greyhound plans to avoid St. Paul. The Norwegian bachelor farmers love Minneapolis and the Irish pols love St. Paul and they love each other like Dallas loves Fort Worth.
Well, the light rail (trolley) line isn’t in place yet, and Amtrak will avoid Minneapolis and Greyhound plans to avoid St. Paul. The Norwegian bachelor farmers love Minneapolis and the Irish pols love St. Paul and they love each other like Dallas loves Fort Worth.
I wonder if Trains will publish the new mileage, complete with mileposts of the new routing for the Empire Builder.
At least this fine building was’nt demolished as so many other
railroad stations were. Look to Chicago for destroying RR stations. 2 saved 6 gone.
If Amtrak moves to St Paul, Minneapolis is going to want its own downtown train station. Of course, as always, nobody is factoring in the reason why Amtrak was moved to where it currently stops. Another government disaster bought and paid for by the taxpayers.
Again, the last train to depart from St. Paul Union Depot was NOT on April 30, 1971. It was on May 2nd – the eastbound combined Empire Builder-North Coast Limited to Chicago which had departed Seattle on April 30th (as two separate trains). Long-haul and overnight trains that originated on April 30th were required to run through to their final destinations, making all their normal intermediate stops.
The Amtrak Midway station deserves to go the same way as its River Road station did in Cincinnati. Both were located in the middle of an industrial junkyard. It was long thought the grand old CUT would be demolished in Cincinnati, but it never happened, Amtrak returned, and after sitting unused for about a dozen years or so, the River Road station finally bit the dust. I would not be surprised if the same happens to Midway Station in a few years from now.