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As a former employee in the engineering department in Aberdeen and later in Chicago, I can tell you the following: <br /> <br />Fuzzybroker: Chicago Milwaukee Corporation (CMC) was the surviving parent company that held all of the land that the Soo Line did not get with the purchase of the railroad. There was a lot of valuable land. The asset purchase agreement was not as clear as it should have been and there was some disagreement as to what land should have gone with the railroad and what was to remain. <br /> <br />Solzrules: NIce pictures. <br /> <br />Murphy Siding: The Faith and Isabel lines lasted until near the end. When the Oahe dam was built around the early 1970's parts of the lines were raised to get them above water level. The bridge you see in the picture above is the new bridge that was built at the same time. We started running coal trains between Gascoyne and Big Stone about 1973. We extended several siding then to accomodate the longer coal trains. <br /> <br />By the way some of us former employees get together every year for a picnic and we will meet again here in the Chicago area in a couple weeks. <br /> <br />Larry
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