By Jessie Slater, CBS 3 Duluth; April 30, 2019
DULUTH, MN– 12 years ago, the idea to connect the Twin Ports with the Twin Cities via high-speed rail was born. Tuesday night, we’re getting a first look at renderings of the proposed project and learning more about how it would operate.
The Northern Lights Express (NLX) and would use 152-miles of existing BNSF railway track. It would make 4 round trips per day between the Twin Ports and Twin Cities, being two and a half hours one way. As it stands now, NLX would have six different stops along the way, all at a cost of $30-dollars one way.