Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad employees
This file appears in: Frogtown's Railroads
The Saint Paul and Pacific Railway was the predecessor to the Great Northern Railway.
Photographer: Redington & Shaffer
Date: Approximately 1873
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Frogtown's Railroads
Frogtown's Railroads
The best view of the railroads is from the east sidewalk of the Dale Street Bridge, where the railroads passed through what is now Great Northern Business Park.
A railroad was first chartered by the Minnesota Legislature in 1857 and received a…