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Having lived in the area for the better part of my life i can add alittle. The iron mining is a little bit of a strech, but not for freelance. All the mining is to the north and east altough it is pretty close. Ag is big, but forest products are bigger. Brainerd has a paper mill that is the biggest shipper(includes need street running through my mother-in-law's neigborhood). Depending on when you want to model there use to be a cut-off from Little Falls to Brainerd. The southend of this line is still open to haul equipment to and from Camp Ripley a MN National Gaurd base. As far as maps the sanborns are pretty good espically of the old shops in Brainerd. The still repair MOW equipment there. Not really an industry but you could make into someother type of repair facility on a freelance. Also besides coal headed toward power plants east, through trains of grain go to the Twin Ports during harvest rush. hope that helps?.
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