MINNEAPOLIS - ST.PAUL

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LIGHT RAIL ROUTE

Operator: Metro Transit

55

Hiawatha Line

Target Field Station – 5th St. S – Hiawatha Ave. – Fort Snelling – Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport – Mall of America

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Streetcar lines: 20 km.



HISTORY

• Streetcars:
  • Horse-powered: St. Paul: July 1872 - 1892; Minneapolis: 2 Sept. 1875 - 1892.
  • Electric: Minneapolis: 24 Dec. 1889 - 19 June 1954; St. Paul: 22 Feb. 1890 - 31 Oct. 1953.
• Light rail: 26 June 2004 - today.

GAUGE

• 1435 mm.

TRAM PRESERVATION

The Minnesota Streetcar Museum runs historic Minneapolis - St. Paul streetcars at two museum locations: adjacent to Lake Harriet in SW Minneapolis and at Excelsior, 15 miles (24 km) west of Minneapolis.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Carter, J.M. "Minnesota: Streetcar named conspire", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 2003 (66: 791), p.413-415.
• Diers, J.W. & Isaacs, A. Twin City Trolley: The streetcar era in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Simons, V. "Minneapolis - St. Paul: Reconnecting the Twin Cities", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2014 (77: 921), p.362-367.

WIKIS

• METRO Blue Line
• Metro Transit (Minnesota)
• Minnesota Streetcar Museum
• Target Field (Metro Transit station)
• Twin City Rapid Transit Company

WEB SITES

• Metro Transit
• Minneapolis / St. Paul (on UrbanRail.Net)
• Minneapolis-St. Paul (Twin Cities) Public Transport
• Minnesota Streetcar Museum
• Streetcars in Minneapolis & St. Paul

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