Whenever there’s tension between Minnesota and the federal government, lawmakers in St. Paul like to revisit a specific data point: We’re a “net giver.” That means Minnesota sends more to Washington, ...

As a young boy growing up in the 1960s, John Cartwright had a father who worked for the Great Northern Railway and understood and nurtured his son’s fascination with trains. The father and ...

Minnesota has a long history with the railway. Names like James J. Hill are famous and helped shape our town. As the industry has changed, these train cars could have become relics. Today ...

Construction of a tunnel in the Kenilworth corridor in Minneapolis, shown here in 2022, is one of the main reasons why the $2 ...

Members of the traveling public, transportation stakeholders, rail providers and local government officials are invited to provide input for development of the Minnesota Department of ...

Transit and environmental advocates who pushed for the sales tax to expand rather than maintain transit are not happy with ...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has worked to share the following rail safety tips: • Yield the right-of-way to trains at highway-rail crossings. It's the law. • Never drive around lowering ...

Upon its completion in 2014, the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line will reconnect the Twin Cities in a way that has been missing for 60 years. A University of Minnesota student heading to Xcel ...

Can you talk about railroad crossing safety and the laws that cover it? Answer: I have responded to and investigated a number ...

A photographer sets out to walk the Twin Cities’ light rail routes, documenting the cityscapes that the trains traverse and ...

There are a limited number of BNSF Railway-certified sites throughout the United States. The Willmar site would be the second site in Minnesota. BNSF Railway has invited the Willmar Industrial ...