The line is part of BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon which runs from Chicago, Illinois to Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon.
This is former Great Northern Railway trackage, and now forms the southern set of BNSF tracks running through the Twin Cities.
The companion route running slightly to the north is the St. Paul Subdivision, former Northern Pacific Railway tracks.
[1] This line has access to an intermodal container facility at BNSF's Midway Yard.
The Wayzata Sub meets the Midway Subdivision at Minneapolis Junction, where the Milwaukee Road 261 steam locomotive is housed.