“Milwaukee Road 261,” a steam locomotive that likely pulled passenger and troop trains to Chicago and Puget Sound during World War II, will chug along the same Delano to Hopkins right-of-way this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2 and 3. It will be assisted by a restored Milwaukee Road, diesel locomotive. If you delight in the drama of belching plumes and jets of hot steam, driving pistons, mechanical noises, train bells and shrill whistles, remain in town this weekend. The Milwaukee Road 261 and its power assist are passing through Eden Prairie and will be pulling a train of beautifully restored…
Author: Jeff Strate
Jeff Strate
An Eden Prairie resident since 1994, Jeff has served as an organizer for local open-space initiatives and get-out-the-vote parks referenda. He has also served on the Eden Prairie Human Rights and Diversity Commission, conservation area task forces, the Southwest Light Rail Community Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Land Trust. Jeff studied journalism and mass communication at the U of MN and has been a producer/writer and occasional on-camera figure in the Twin Cities, New York, Boston, and Trenton. Jeff has written for websites and magazines and has produced award-winning access programing through Southwest Community Television (SWTV).
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The following temporary road closure alerts were included in a Thursday, Sept. 23, Southwest Light Rail Project construction update. Highway 62 Westbound lanes of Highway 62 between Highway 212 and Shady Oak Road are slated for closure from 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, through 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27. Beginning Monday morning at 5 a.m., only one Hwy. 62 westbound lane and one Hwy. 62 eastbound lane between Hwy. 212 and Shady Oak Road will be open. Additionally, the Highway 169 off-ramp to westbound Hwy. 62 will be reopened, but the eastbound Hwy. 62 on-ramp from northbound Shady Oak Road…
“There’s berry and then there is cranberry-apple,” explained a server to a woman customer. They were under one of the canvass canopies set up near the pavilion in Purgatory Creek Park. As the server lifted a chilled can of hard seltzer water from a cooler for her friend, he peeled back the tab on its lid. The action made a metallic charipp sound and a soft hisss. “The cranberry-apple is very good,” replied the woman. “I want to try the berry.” She was sampling the libations offered by Lift Bridge Brewing Company of Stillwater; one of 13 craft-brewers at this…
Southwest Light Rail Project work continues full throttle along its entire route from SouthWest Station in Eden Prairie to Target Field Station in Minneapolis. Highway 62 between Shady Oak Road and Highway 212 will be closed at variable times beginning tonight, Sept. 10. West 70th Street in the Golden Triangle begins a three-week closure on Monday. Visit the SWLRT construction website for new updates, details and maps for road closings in Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Hopkins, St. Louis Park, and Minneapolis. In brief, here’s what you need to know before you head to Hwy. 62 and W. 70th Street. Hwy. 62 closures Hwy.…
Eden Prairie Local News wishes everyone an enjoyable, restful and restorative Labor Day 2021. The 6th of September, the unofficial last day of summer, began at Mitchell Lake with the promise of a beautiful day. Alex Strate, son of EPLN regular contributor Jeff Strate, began his day at the Mitchell Lake fishing dock in Miller Park. Alex Strate took this picture at about 6:30 a.m. Earlier, he had caught and released two largemouth bass. A few northern pike, he said, also took interest but did not strike his lure. The only other person visible during the early hours, Alex State…
Eden Prairie residents can haul their no longer usable stuff to the city’s yard waste site and leave without it at a Sept. 11 city-sponsored event. Ninety-eight percent of the junk will be recycled, according to Certified Recycling, the vendor that is partnering with the city. When and where?The Fall Recycling Drop-Off is Saturday, Sept. 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The yard waste site is located at 9811 Flying Cloud Drive. Drop-off traffic must enter the site from northbound Flying Cloud Drive. Bring proof of your Eden Prairie residency in the form of a driver’s license, utility bill…
Orange and white traffic barrels on Valley View Road near the regional bike trail bridge that were installed in February should be gone in October. They were there in April and remain on guard in September. The barrels keep east-bound drivers from using Valley View’s right lane from Edenvale Boulevard to about 30 yards beyond the bridge. The sidewalk is also closed. The grassy and bushy area between the sidewalk and Purgatory Creek has been colonized by backhoes, compressors and work crews. They’ve scraped and moved a lot of soil on both sides of what has been named the Minnesota…
Weather permitting, Monday begins one of the busiest light rail construction weeks in months …
Weather permitting, construction crews will pour concrete on the light-rail span built over Nine Mile Creek and Flying Cloud Drive on Friday, Aug. 27. Flying Cloud Drive will be closed from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. between the Flying Cloud Dog Park and the Performing Institute of Minnesota Arts High School (PIM). According to a project construction bulletin, detour signs will be posted in the area. The south access to the high school via Valley View Road and Flying Cloud Drive will remain open. If the rain continues on Friday, work will be completed from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.…
The Met Council says $1.5 billion of investments have been stimulated by the SWLRT project.