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Article: Who'll stop the trains?; The closure of a rail line will mean a shift in train traffic, and two residential areas - one in St. Louis Park, the other in Minneapolis - are finding themselves engaged in an unusual confrontation to keep their tracks quiet.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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The track is tight along Blackstone Avenue in St. Louis Park. Ramblers and bungalows come within feet of the Twin Cities & Western freight trains that pass by a few times a day. Just up the street, high-schoolers cross the tracks to eat lunch at McDonald's.
Three miles to the east in Minneapolis, some of the Twin Cities' most expensive homes abut rail tracks in the Kenwood and Cedar-Isles-Dean neighborhoods. Over the years, residents there have been only too glad to see freight-train traffic decrease and then stop.
Relations between the railroad and neighborhoods in St. Louis Park and Minneapolis have been lukewarm in the past, and they are about to get ...