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St. Paul become a city in 1854. For Minneapolis, it was 1867. More than 150 years, later the Twin Cities are two distinct places.

There was some early talk about building an actual subway — an underground commuter rail line — in the Twin Cities, however. In April 1907, the Minneapolis Tribune had a small notice (on page ...