St. Paul and Duluth Railroad
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The St. Paul and Duluth Railroad, a railroad in Minnesota and Wisconsin, operated independently from 1877, when it was reorganized from the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, until 1900, when it
Share of the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, issued 14. November 1888
The Seventh Street Improvement Arches span the former right-of-way of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad in Saint Paul.
Great Hinckley Fire
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The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota that ignited on September 1, 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres, including the town of
St. Paul and Duluth Railroad
…69, was heading south to St. Paul from Duluth with 400 passengers aboard when the train arrived at Hinckley, Minnesota in the middle of the historic Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. The train's engineer James Root and his crew rescued several hundred people who were escaping from the fire and quickly reversed course racing…
Hinckley, Minnesota after the 1894 fire
Eastern Minnesota Railway #105 (Ed Barry's Engine)
Great Northern Railway #125 (William Best's Engine)
The Hinckley Fire Museum