Waseca Subdivision

v t e Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
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Waseca Subdivision
mi UP Winona Subdivision 1.8 Tower CK CP River Subdivision 3.3 Goodview 4.9 Minnesota City Junction CP River Subdivision 6.0 Minnesota City 11.3 Stockton 18.4 Lewiston 22.7 Utica 28.3 St. Charles 32.2 Dover 36.9 Eyota 37.9 Plainview spur 42.7 Haverhill (Chester) 49.2 Rochester south spur (former CGW) to Spring Valley and Iowa north spur formerly to Red Wing Olmsted 58.7 Byron 64.2 Kasson 68.3 Dodge Center 76.4 Claremont 87.6   to Mason City, Iowa CP/IC&E Owatonna Sub to Faribault (Comus) 88.1 Owatonna UP Albert Lea Subdivision 96.3 Meriden 102.5 Waseca DM&E Hartland Subdivision DM&E Tracy Subdivision

The Waseca Subdivision or Waseca Sub is a railway line in southern Minnesota owned and operated by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) subsidiary of Canadian Pacific. It stretches roughly 103 miles (166 km) from Winona, Minnesota in the east to Waseca in the west where the rails continue as the Tracy Subdivision. There's also a connection south to the Hartland Subdivision. U.S. Highway 14 closely follows the railroad line.

Most of the line is dark territory, meaning that it is not signalled and not equipped with centralized traffic control or automatic block signalling systems. The line is dispatched via radio using track warrant control. However, short stretches of track in and near Winona are under control of signaling systems of the Union Pacific Railroad and Canadian Pacific.^[1]