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Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social |
13/ By 1900 the electric interurban era had arrived. In 1908 the Minnesota Northfield & Southern Railway, best known as the Dan Patch, built a station just west of Target Field stadium. Other railways also stopped there, including the Electric Short Line and Anoka & Cuyuna Range Railroad
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Vince Mpls
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14/ Before visiting the last station, let's mourn the end of the Interurbans. Once the fastest way to reach Anoka, Edina, Wayzata, Bloomington, Lakeville, etc, they were all gone by 1947. Where Dan Patch Depot once boarded passengers is now an abandoned bus stop under Ramp A in the median of I-394
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Brian Danger Hicks
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The Dan Patch Line's 1908 station was at 54th St and Nicollet, just outside of the city limits, on account of being kicked out of the city and forced to give up the track they had laid inside the city limits to the TCRT. That depot was built in 1916 by the Electric Short Line Railway.
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