- Winnipeg to Minneapolis
- Winnipeg to Calgary
I checked this out over a decade ago. To get from Winnipeg to Minneapolis, you cannot just walk in to Union Station in Winnipeg and hop aboard a train. No. You have to catch a Greyhound bus to Grand Forks, North Dakota.
It arrives there and you have to wait for the Amtrack train at 1:30 in the morning. The train arrives around 9:30 in the morning.
That's not good.
I'd like something like this...
Board the Amtrak (or Via) train in Winnipeg at say, 4 or 5
PM. Arrive in the Twin Cities ~ 8 PM.
This service would run 3x a week, in both directions.
There was talk 5 years ago, about reintroducing such service. But alas, someone must have stopped that from happening or it just wouldn't be "economical".
Winnipeg Free Press
Feb. 18, 2012
Manitoba could join Minnesota in 175-km/h rail link
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/op...139567258.html
Cost would be no more than $150 return.
To put this into perspective, there hasn't been such service since the late-1960s provided by Burlington Northern when I was but a small baby.