RED WING, Minn. — Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan said the new Borealis passenger train is on its way to bringing 15,000 visitors a year to Red Wing. Forty people a day either board or exit the Borealis in Red Wing, she said at a tourism promotion event. “When the state studied the viability of the service, the estimate was between 125,000 and 157,000 passengers annually,” she said. “We were wrong.” The Chicago-to-St. Paul zsd carried 150,000 in less than eight months, she said.
