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A truck carrying explosives overturned, caught fire and exploded, leaving a massive crater, and damaging nearby UP rail, also used by Amtrak. Miraculously, noone was killed -- they had enough time to escape the area. http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_222165020.html

Two fatalities in the truck. Minor injuries aboard the train. Here's the story.

I was checking out the new satellite photo feature on google maps (maps.google.com), and was perusing around my parent's neighborhood, when I happened to find myself following the tracks west-bound toward the MSP station in St. Paul. If I'm not mistaken, I do think that I see an Eastbound...

Any idea what this means? This morning, I checked status and it said the train left Staples, MN (SPL) and was to arrive in St Cloud (SCD) a few minutes late. Now when I check status on this train, even back to Staples and before, the above message show in place of the status? Has anyone...

My family and I (wife and four kids) will be travelling from St. Paul (MSP) to Washington, DC by way of Chicago. I've been watching the Eastbound Empire Builder for the past week, and I'm starting to expect that our odds of making our connection are not too good. Last week seemed a bit better...