The line was formerly known as the Minnesota Transfer Railroad. It was privately owned by the major railroads serving the Twin Cities area.
It is based out of a roundhouse on Cleveland Ave. in St. Paul just blocks south of the former Amtrak station and its main yard is just to the north of the station.
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)