winnipeg to minneapolis
in [USA]
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From: sharx35 on 21 Nov 2007 22:23 "Keith Willshaw" <keith(a)kwillshawnospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:fi25jf$ckj$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk... > > "sharx35" <sharx35(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:lNq0j.1153$HH2.1138(a)edtnps82... >> >> "Mark Brader" <msb(a)vex.net> wrote in message >> news:13k3hvvl42sukb9(a)corp.supernews.com... >>> H. Richler: >>>> I have to travel from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Minneapolis in >>>> December. The only cheap flight I've found (Air Canada) is almost 8 >>>> hours as I have to connect in Toronto. Is there a faster and >>>> relatively cheap way to do this trip by air or rail? >>> >>> Definitely not by rail. The nearest cross-border passenger train >>> is at Niagara Falls. >> >> At one time, one could take either the Northern Pacific or the Great >> Northern between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. What happened to them? >> > > They went bust, the NP and GN were swallowed up by the Burlington Northern > and stopped running passenger services more than 35 years ago. If there's > bus to Fargo ND from Winnipeg the OP could catch the Amtrak Empire Builder > Service to Minneapolis BUT that train leaves Fargo at 2.13 AM (or > Much Much later) so its hardly an attrartive option. > > Short of driving the only realistic surface option is 12 hour Greyhound > bus ride > which also goes via Fargo but at least leaves at a respectable hour > (7.35 AM) > > Keith > > Keith 12 hours was the approx. length of the trip either the GN or the NP trains took to travel between Winnipeg and Minneapolis. The problem, at that point, was to travel onwards to Rochester, Minnesota. Local bus or limo were the options back in the 60's!! > > |