Trains chugged through these woods before Theodore Roosevelt became president, or so it appears from the rails yanked from the old Minnesota Zephyr line in the past few weeks. "My guess is that the track was built in the late 1800s or early 1900s," said Terry Peterson, president of Tie Yard of Omaha, the company hired to clear the way for a new Browns Creek State Trail leading from Stillwater. All the rails and ties will be recycled, he said.
End of the line for dinner train rails
Rails that shuttled a dinner train are pried loose to open the way for a trail.
October 6, 2012 at 5:10AM
about the writer
It’s too soon to tell how much the immigration crackdown is to blame.
