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 Interior Lakefield High School Assembly, Lakefield Minnesota, 1910 Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase |
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Steam Railroads of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota |
| Steam railroading became an integral part of the communities in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota in the late 1800s. The railroad provided hundreds of jobs and the ability to transport both goods and passengers across the Midwest. The Chicago & North Western Railway, the Chicago Great Western Railroad, the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (called the Milwaukee Road by employees) served five principal gateways, which included Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. Operating steam engines required tremendous manpower, and by the 1920s, some steam passenger trains were replaced by more efficient motor cars, fueled by oil-powered engines. Steam engines could no longer compete with the reduced operating costs, smaller crew requirements, and time savings provided by diesel, which ultimately led to the fall of steam in 1955. | |
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 Main Street, Lakefield Minnesota, 1913 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 State Bank and the Lewis Block in Lakefield, Minnesota, 1918. LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge Buy a reproduction of this postcard - Buy a print of this image |
 City Hall and Power House, Lakefield Minnesota, 1918 LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
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 Main Street looking north, Lakefield Minnesota, 1940s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 School, Lakefield Minnesota, 1940s LakesnWoods.com Postcard and Postcard Image Collection - click to enlarge |
 Lakefield Municipal Hospital, Lakefield Minnesota, 1945 Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase |
 Lakefield Farmers Cooperative Creamery, Lakefield Minnesota, 1945 Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society - click image to enlarge or purchase |
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