Northstar
Posted by Laura Baenen |
Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:31:00 PM
Cary Schaller lives in Big Lake and works in downtown Minneapolis. But for the past decade, he’s spent just a few minutes of his daily, hourlong commutes in his personal vehicle.
That’s because Schaller has been riding the Northstar Commuter
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Northstar
On the METRO
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Thursday, August 15, 2019 9:57:00 AM
Construction continues near the Northstar Commuter Rail Line’s Coon Rapids/Riverdale Station, where Minneapolis-based Sherman Associates is building a 180 market-rate apartment project called Lyra, and a 71 affordable apartment project called
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Light Rail
METRO Blue Line
METRO Green Line
Northstar
Posted by Drew Kerr |
Thursday, June 20, 2019 11:14:00 AM
To hear John MacQueen tell it, the METRO Blue Line’s June 26, 2004, opening was hardly a sure success.
“One of the strangest things was nothing worked well, except the day before we opened,” said MacQueen, the Blue Line’s first rail transit
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Northstar
Posted by Laura Baenen |
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 2:10:00 PM
Jeremy Spilde, manager of commuter rail maintenance, in a service pit at Northstar's Operations & Maintenance Facility in Big Lake, Minn.
Locomotives and passenger cars that have been operating for the past decade on the Northstar
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Community
Minneapolis
Northstar
Posted by Laura Baenen |
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:08:00 PM
Customers who ride the Northstar Commuter Rail Line must look up to take in the nearly 300,000-pound, 16-foot tall locomotives that pull passenger cars between Minneapolis and Big Lake.
But in the basement of a former Coon Rapids grocery store
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