Great Northern Railway
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All-steel modern Oriental Limited trains contrasted with the original train of the Great Northern Railway of 1862.
Photographer: St. Paul Daily News
Date: 1924
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…