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MINNEAPOLIS AND THE AGE OF RAILWAYS
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Hofsommer, 2005, Univ. Minnesota Press, 480p, HD.
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The author presents Minneapolis from the 1860s into the 1950s, when railroads served as a unique link between city and countryside.
Rails carried wheat and helped make Minneapolis the flour milling capital of the world; brought logs to Minneapolis to be processed into lumber that built towns and farms across the prairies;
and delivered coal and all manner of manufactured goods and merchandise to Minneapolis, its vast hinterland to the north and west and beyond.
Reviewed in: National Railway Bulletin Vol. 69 #4, NRHS, 2004, page 49.
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