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 ...

Finding Old Railroad Depots. A day Away By Mike Steely. I grew up about a block away from a railroad station, back when passenger trains still ran. That old station is still there ...

Way back in 1872, the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad built the first Hopkins train station just southwest of what is now Excelsior Boulevard and Highway 169. The land for the new train station ...