1992 Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway

Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway is a tourist railroad that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) and the Osceola Historical Society. It runs excursion trains from Osceola, WI, to Marine on St Croix, MN, and to Dresser, WI. It also has operating rights to Withrow, MN, which it uses for special trains throughout the season. [4:28 video]

The MTM offers a variety of train rides.

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SOO Line GP7 crosses the St.Croix River on the Osceola & St.Croix Valley Railway. 9/11/2023
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At least one exhibition train includes a demonstration of a RPO snagging a mailbag.

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This railway runs on what was the original SOO/Wisconsin Central mainline until the 1980s.  Now CN runs just one ballast train a day that hauls rock from a quarry in Dresser. This ballast train was captured before Canadian Pacific sold the SOO line to Canadian National.

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The railroad has preserved freight cars as well as passenger cars. And some train rides cross the St. Croix River on this 1887 swing bridge, which no longer swings.

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Winthrow is in the lower-left corner and Dresser is in the upper-right cornfer. Saint Croix is now Marine on St. Croix.

1955 Stillwater Quad @ 250,000

13:56 railfan video chasing a SDP40