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5/ On the west edge of downtown, the St Paul & Pacific Railroad built a bridge across the river at Nicollet Island in 1867 to points west. Their new Minneapolis station was a combo passenger/freight affair located in the current railway trench near the T3 North Loop building.
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6/ Soon afterward a group local businessmen, fed up with the price-gouging railway companies, started their own: The Minneapolis & St Louis. In 1873 they built a competing line parallel to the StP&P, with a passenger station right at T3 where the Cedar Lake Trail is today.
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