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TOOTIN' LOUIE: HISTORY OF THE MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY
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Hofsommer, 2005, Univ. Minn. Press, 396p, HD.
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The Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (M&StL), affectionately known as the Tootin’ Louie, was founded in 1870 to serve a Minneapolis business community threatened by powerful railway interests emerging from both Chicago and Milwaukee.
Although its goal of providing a direct rail artery to St. Louis proved elusive, the M&StL became a 1,600-mile road that supplied essential freight and passenger carriage to the Midwest over its ninety-year existence.
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Reviewed in:
. Railroad History issue #194, R&LHS, page 91-92.
. National Railway Bulletin Vol. 70, NRHS, Spring 2005, page 44.
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