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 ...

At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

A discovery by Minnesota historian Karen Sieber shows an influential leader of the underground railroad had ties to St. Paul.

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 ...