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Could a big week for St. Paul's Union Depot hint at a brighter future?

Could a big week for St. Paul's Union Depot hint at a brighter future?

Finley Olsen guided trains over a bridge and around some curved track at St. Paul's Union Depot on Sunday afternoon. The tracks were wooden and not quite as big as the real ones outside. Dressed in a striped conductor's hat and overalls that matched his blue glasses, the nearly 3-year-old has been "into trains for quite a while," said his mother, Molly. Hence the trek from Menomonie, Wis., to .

Will the West 7th streetcar project move forward in St. Paul?

Transit planners are also studying a rapid electric bus line for what’s known as the Riverview Corridor in St. Paul.

Soucheray: Why do we think we should spend a billion-plus for a West Seventh streetcar?

We don’t need to become enslaved to another boondoggle that cannot possibly pay for itself.

Internal Amtrak memo highlights concerns over St. Paul Union Depot. 2nd train to Chicago, route to Duluth in the works.

More than a decade ago, Ramsey County poured $243 million into purchasing, renovating and reviving the downtown St. Paul Union Depot, a 1920s-era transit hub that hadn’t hosted passenger trains since 1971. Situated on 33 acres of riverfront property off Kellogg Boulevard, the neoclassical train depot welcomed their return in May 2014 when Amtrak’s Empire Builder began rolling in a morning trip .