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Twin Cities’ passenger trains through the years
As you read through old Official Guides and timetables, I find one tidbit very interesting. There were two passenger stations in Minneapolis: The MILW, Soo Line, and Rock Island used the Milwaukee Station; the rest of the railroads used the Great Northern Station. Well, except for the NP. It had such an inferiority complex with regard to the GN it couldn;t stand to admit it used the Great Northern station in its largest online city, so instead it used the misnomer :“Hennepin Avenue Station.” (The Great Northern station’s address was 2 Hennepin Avenue)