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Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the

Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the


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Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre An illustrated history of the
 
Saga of the Soo West from Shoreham By John Gjevre
An illustrated history of the Soo Line Railroad Company and its predecessors in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana.  
Hard cover with Dust Jacket   (dust jacket has damage)
Copyright 1973
112 Pages

Table of contents:
Beginnings
Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Ry.  3
Minneapolis and Pacific Ry.  5
Aberdeen, Bismarck and Northwestern Ry.  7
The Consolidation of 1888  9
The Canadian Pacific, Van Horne and the Soo10
Tracklaying in 1893  15
Lines West from Shoreham
Soo - Pacific Line  18
The Winnipeg Line  19
The Wheat Line  30
Bismarck and Missouri River Lines  36
Moose Lake and the Plummer Line  38
Agriculture and the Soo  40
The Little Lines and their Times
Bismarck, Washburn and Great Falls Ry.  45
Fairmount and Veblen Ry.  54
Minnesota N.W. Electric Ry.  57
Valley City Interurban  58
Midland Continental  59
Passenger Services  61
Snow and Winter Operations 76
Disaster is a Dirty Word  78
A Potpourri of Memories  82
A Gallery of Locomotives  89
Depot Designs  96
First Men of the Soo (presidents)  99
A Synoptic Economic History 103
Acknowledgments 109
Bibliography 110

This narrative of the western portion of the Soo Line covers many facets of railway history - the financial struggles, the competition for routes, track rights, the building of grades, the progress and reverses experienced.
Here are the tales of many little railways which were eventually absorbed into the Soo Line. (One had trackage of only 1.4 miles and operated on electric power for 48 years.)
The reader will discover in this book the many ways in which this railway influenced the life and development of the Upper Midwest area. For not only did special immigrant trains (and railway land boomers) bring settlers, but railway men also planned prairie towns which they named for their own VIP's. Once the homesteader had settled within wagon reach of the tracks, railway men increased their lading by seed, potato, and livestock demonstrations and the services of their own agricultural agents.
In a world of quickly-changing values and technology, this is a book whose value will increase with the years.

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