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Hello. As a former Milwaukee Road employee, I can add some information. The coal trains came from lignite mines at Gascoyne, North Dakota and went to a power plant near Milbank, South Dakota. While I was working in the division office in Aberdeen, we extended a number of sidings and did some work on the main track to prepare for the coal trains. I staked out the main line turnout at the power plant about 1973. We started running the trains about 1974. <br /> <br />I never worked on the west end and was not as familiar with it. I believe it as at Black River Junction where the line split to go to Seattle or Tacoma. As I recall we had a track to Longview, Washington. In the late 60's or early 70's we got trackage rights to Portland, over UP, I think.
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