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I grew up south of Minneapolis, MN in Bloomington. The rail line in this area was the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern. I think this was absorbed into the Soo Line and then Canadian Pacific or National. Now I live in Northern MN. I am 30 miles away from any rail. However, these rails are where the Northern Pacific and Great Northern shared trackage. This then became the Burlington Northern and is now the BNSF. There are lots of coal unit and container unit trains heading both ways. What is nice, is I am 39 miles away from Detroit Lakes where I can get on Amtrak around three in the morning heading in either direction and have done so. The west bound is only 20 minutes before the east bound.
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