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Borealis (train)
The ''Borealis'', referred to as ''Twin Cities–Milwaukee–Chicago'' (''TCMC'') during planning, is an Amtrak inter-city rail service that operates daily between Chicago, Illinois, and Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, via Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Service began on May 21, 2024, under the Amtrak Midwest brand. The train supplements the long-distance ''Empire Builder'', serving the same stations but with higher reliability and complementary departure times. As an extension of an existing Chicago–Milwaukee ''Hiawatha (Amtrak train), Hiawatha'' train, the ''Borealis'' doubled Amtrak service frequency between Milwaukee and Saint Paul. Total ridership in its first year of service was 205,800 passengers, contributing to substantial growth in overall ridership on the Chicago-Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities corridor. History Previous services Prior to Amtrak, private railroads ran passenger service between the Twin Cities and Chicago on several corridors. The Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welch Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Welch Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States. It lies about halfway between the cities of Hastings and Red Wing and 36 miles southeast of Saint Paul. The population was 697 at the 2000 census. It is centered on the small community of Welch on the Cannon River. Like many river towns in the Driftless Area, it is situated at the base of the steep bluffs of the river valley. History We do not know when Welch was really organized and it was named Eagle Mills first. Welch Township was organized in 1864, and named for Abraham Edwards Welch, a local man who was killed in the Civil War. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 42.7 square miles (110.7 km), of which 39.3 square miles (101.8 km) is land and 3.4 square miles (8.9 km) (8.03%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 697 people, 249 households, and 192 families residing in the township. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is Forest cover by state and territory in the United States, forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main Politics of Minnesota, political, Economy of Minnesota, economic, and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning Zephyr
The ''Twin Zephyrs'', also known as the ''Twin Cities Zephyrs'', were a pair of streamlined passenger trains on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), running between Chicago and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul in Minnesota. It was the second ''Zephyr'' service introduced by CB&Q after the record-setting Denver–Chicago "dawn to dusk dash" of the ''Pioneer Zephyr'' trainset. The train competed with the Chicago and North Western's ''Twin Cities 400'' which ceased operation in 1963, and the Milwaukee Road's ''Twin Cities Hiawatha'', which, like the ''Zephyr'', ended with the coming of Amtrak in 1971. The CB&Q trains went west from Chicago to the Mississippi River and along that river to Saint Paul, while the North Western and Milwaukee Road trains traveled via Milwaukee. History Two three-car trainsets, numbered 9901 and 9902, were delivered in April 1935. On April 6 number 9901 made a demonstration run from Chicago to Saint Paul in 5 hours 31 minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
