I grew up in Bloomington. In 1971 (4th grade) we had an overnight fieldtrip to Duluth. We took Amtrak from Minneapolis to Duluth. Except for our group of 4th graders, teachers and chapperones, I don’t recall any other passengers on the two-car train.
That Amtrak service no longer exists.
There is a reason that it no longer exists. There wasn’t any demand for it.
But when he talked to all the workers at his new plant in Fargo, North Dakota, he told them that something had happened to his home town.
Originally, he could depend on his crew there getting up early and working hard until quitting time. He'd built a great business, but he now couldn't find people like that any more in his hometown and so was moving production out. Fargo was the first stop in those expansion plans and he liked what he had saw. He told his employees to keep up the good work and not vote Democrat or Fargo would suffer the same fate as Duluth.
Long story short is that a railroad from Duluth to Minneapolis will only speed up the process of emptying out Duluth.