It briefly crosses the border into North Dakota around Wahpeton, across the Red River from Breckenridge.
Today (as of 2010), BNSF's Northern Transcon travels up the Staples Subdivision instead, which is a more direct route between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and Fargo, North Dakota.
Amtrak's Empire Builder, formerly a Great Northern Railway train, was shifted to take the Staples Subdivision in the late 1970s.
The Red River Valley and Western Railroad interchanges with BNSF in Wahpeton.
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