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I still think that it's a big farm town - just like Minneapolis and St. Paul. I travel over there from time to time and in my job as a tech college instructor, I meet with people from the IBM plant and other hi-tech businesses, so I know that there is a lot of non-ag-related stuff going on. At the same time, though, a large chunk of the retail sector in Rochester is supported by all of the small towns that surround it, and those towns are made up of ag-related communities. If southern Minnesota ended up looking like a lot of the towns in South Dakota (no offence to those folks) Rochester would have a hard time keeping all of those malls and restaurants going just to satisfy the needs of the Mayo and IBM employees. A good point is that the town is bisected by the railroad. All of the towns on the DM&E are that way. Right now, an 80 car train takes a lot longer to pass a crossing than a 100 car train will, if the track is rebuilt and the speed limit is increased. On the BN that parallels US Hwy 10 north of St. Cloud, the wait for a coal train or double-stack to pass a grade crossing is measured in seconds, not minutes. Tom
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