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. [
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Redeker Rail Video & Photography 0:39 video SOO Line GP7 crosses the St.Croix River on the Osceola & St.Croix Valley Railway. 9/11/2023 Terry Redeker shared
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At least one exhibition train includes a demonstration of a RPO snagging a mailbag.
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.
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.
Winthrow is in the lower-left corner and Dresser is in the upper-right cornfer. Saint Croix is now Marine on St. Croix.
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