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Lost Twin Cities
Historic views of railroading in the Minneapolis-St Paul area.
Thanks
to Greg Smith for his help in creating this section!
Central
Warehouse Corp. GE 44-tonner, it and another one exactly like it used to switch
the warehouses in the Midway.
Above - from Greg's
collection, the Stone Arch bridge in Amtrak days and below, how it was
in July 2002. Greg took all the recent photos in these comparsions.
Above - In the De La Salle
area, the very early Amtrak days! Below At least one of the locations
still has tracks...
Above - Departing the old Mpls GN
station, it was magnificent in its day... Amtrak didn't use it long before they
consolidated the stations in the are to the Midway.
Below - now a
walking path and the Mpls Post Office in front, the Federal Reserve sits on the
station site and the Hennipen Ave Bridge is in front.
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