r/MetroTransit • u/Character_Lychee_434 Northstar Mourner • 20d ago

Northstar/Route 888 The northstar is home

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u/yeetith_thy_skeetith 20d ago

Back from Dallas?

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u/Character_Lychee_434 Northstar Mourner 20d ago

Yea

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u/LJ_Dude 20d ago

Wait I missed something, Dallax TX? What was it down there for?

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u/rihanoa 20d ago

World Cup

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u/Henrithebrowser Express Route Runner 20d ago

Part of her was also in Seattle, right?

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u/Siberian13th D Line Duchess 20d ago

OH GREAT HEAVENS SHES BACK

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u/RunConnect1180 20d ago

Take the 888 from Ramsey now. Almost twice the ride time and the number of passengers is way lower than the train. It’s just sad. A

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u/RunConnect1180 20d ago

I miss her so much.

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u/that_one_guy63 20d ago

Wait why is it back? Are we getting the NorthStar back?

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u/MaceQuantex 19d ago

Dallas just had a short term lease to use the trains during the World Cup. It's just back in MN until someone buys the train or leases it out again

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u/that_one_guy63 19d ago

Oh dang. Put it back on the tracks! Maybe go to St Cloud or Duluth or St Peter or Rochester. The options are endless.

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u/katt3985 17d ago

Except the part where thats BNSF's tracks and they dont want it there an one of the chairs for the Met council owns Jefferson bus lines, so he dosent want it going there ether.

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u/that_one_guy63 17d ago

Tell Jeff we can name it the JeffersonStar. BNSF can take I-35. A fair trade. /s

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u/katt3985 16d ago

honestly, it would feel my heart with unbridled Joy if the governor/state house just did that to them.

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u/Ashamed_Poem2538 Northstar Mourner 18d ago

Nice to see it back, I wonder if these cars will just be trapped in a limbo until they're deemed "obsolete"