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[[File:1891 Poor's St. Paul and Duluth Railroad.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An 1891 route map]]
[[File:SeventhStreetArches1.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Seventh Street Improvement Arches]] span the former right-of-way of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad in Saint Paul.]]

The '''St. Paul and Duluth Railroad''' was reorganized from the [[Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad]] in 1877.  It was bought by the Northern Pacific in 1900.  Known to this day as the "Skally Line", it operated from [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] to [[Duluth, Minnesota]], with branches to Minneapolis, Taylors Falls, Kettle River, and Cloquet, in Minnesota, and Grantsburg and Superior in [[Wisconsin]].

==Disposition==
The line was purchased by the [[Northern Pacific Railway]], which was succeeded by the [[Burlington Northern]] and then the [[Burlington Northern Santa Fe]].  Most of the line became redundant with other lines after the Burlington Northern merger, as it paralleled another line of the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]].  Most of the line therefore was abandoned and many segments were turned into [[rail trails]].

The disposition of those segments is as follows:
* [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] to [[Maplewood, Minnesota]] - abandoned; now part of the [[Bruce Vento Regional Trail]]
* [[Maplewood, Minnesota]] to [[Hugo, Minnesota]] - now operated by the [[Minnesota Commercial Railway]]
* [[Hugo, Minnesota]] to [[North Branch, Minnesota]] - abandoned; now the [http://www.co.washington.mn.us/info_for_residents/parks_division/parks_and_trails/hardwood_creek_regional_trail/ Hardwood Creek Regional Trail] and [http://www.co.chisago.mn.us/content.aspx?Id=57A7B935-D1DC-430D-9932-3F989D0B34CB Sunrise Prairie Trail]
* [[North Branch, Minnesota]] to [[Hinckley, Minnesota]] - now operated by the [[St. Croix Valley Railroad]]
* [[Hinckley, Minnesota]] to [[Duluth, Minnesota]] - abandoned; now the [[Willard Munger State Trail]]

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[[Category:Defunct Minnesota railroads]]
[[Category:Predecessors of the Northern Pacific Railway]]
[[Category:Railway companies established in 1877]]
[[Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1900]]
[[Category:Defunct Wisconsin railroads]]


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