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The Twin Cities and Western Railroad is a railroad operating in the U.S. state of Minnesota which started operations on July 27, 1991. Trackage includes the former Soo Line Railroad "Ortonville Line", originally built as the first part of the Pacific extension of the Milwaukee Road. This main line extends from Hopkins, Minnesota (a Western suburb of the Twin Cities) to Appleton, Minnesota. The line was originally built between Hopkins and Cologne Minnesota in 1876 by Hastings and Dakota Railroad. In 1913, the Milwaukee Road rerouted it, reducing the curves. The line was eventually extended to the Pacific. As of 2010, the TCWR also has trackage rights over the BNSF Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway. On 2012, the TCWR has purchased the Sisseton Milbank Railroad and it now operates as a subsidiary of the Twin Cities and Western Railway. 〔("Sisseton Milbank Railroad Overview." ) ''Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company.'' Retrieved: 22 March 2015.〕 The company is also affiliated with the Red River Valley and Western Railroad in North Dakota, and the Minnesota Prairie Line, which has a junction with the Twin Cities and Western in Norwood, Minnesota. Andrew Thompson is currently the chief executive officer of all three railroads. ==Current Routing== Until Hiawatha Avenue (Minnesota State Highway 55) was reconstructed in the 1990s and plans for the Hiawatha Line light rail service entered late stages, the Twin Cities and Western operated on Canadian Pacific's Bass Lake Subdivision through the 29th Street railway trench in Minneapolis, now known as the Midtown Greenway. The tracks continued along the former Milwaukee Road Short Line into Saint Paul, where TC&W would access rail yards operated by Canadian Pacific, the Minnesota Commercial Railway, and others. As part of the Hiawatha project, the railroad agreed to new routing enabling the severing of the line that saved the Hiawatha project money. A temporary connection to BNSF's Wayzata Subdivision was built along the Kenilworth Trail using right-of-way owned by the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority. The Kenilworth alignment had first been built as part of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway and eventually became part of the Chicago and North Western Railway. The Hennepin County Rail Authority acquired the land when C&NW abandoned the line.〔 The existing freight operation shares the corridor with the Kenilworth Trail. The temporary alignment was only expected to last between one and six years. It has been more than a decade since constructed. The connection is reaching the end of its lifespan and requires rehabilitation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twin Cities and Western Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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