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M&StL’s North Star Limited

By Angela Cotey | April 21, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

A Pacific is in charge of Minneapolis & St. Louis’s St. Louis–St. Paul North Star Limited between Chaska and Eden Prairie, Minn., in the 1920s or early ’30s. Don Hofsommer collection

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