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Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board With Mount Shasta looming in the background, a light freight powered by Southern Pacific Mikado 3227 crosses the Hotlum trestle to reverse direction on the Grass Lake Wye. Southern Pacific Shasta Route in HO Otis McGee/photo by Dan Munson Growing up in the 1950s, I occasionally “played with” trains. But, by my teens, my attention had turned elsewhere. Not until years later, in need of a distraction from the rigors that came with my career, did I return t...

Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board Train No. 8, the Log Train, has just passed the Yard Limit sign as it makes its way eastbound to Incline where the empty log cars will be left. It will then continue east, turn on the wye at Moss Canyon, and return to pick up the loaded log cars and take them to the lumber mill at Merced Falls. August 1939 on the Yosemite Valley Railroad By Jack Burgess/photos by Dan Munson I was 13 years old when I received my first train set for Christmas. I soon had my ci...

New year, new Red Wing, Goodhue County leadership Brad Anderson is elected Goodhue County Board chair for the second time in three years while Becky Norton is elected Red Wing City Council president for the first time. Written By: Rachel Fergus | × RED WING — For the Goodhue County Board, the new year began with the swearing-in of members and the election of chair and vice chair. Todd Greseth, District 3, was sworn-in for his first term after winning the seat f...

To the Editor: The nexus of all the beneficiaries will be oil companies (“The New Shape of Travel: How to Play It,” Cover Story, Dec. 24). If airline travel returns to pre-Covid levels, the airlines will return to their pre-Covid levels of buying fuel. Cruise lines don’t run on electricity. The big question is, will businesses give up Zoom meetings? Office buildings and the lack of commuters and wear-and-tear on cars might be negatives, but kids going back to school and coming home and f...

Railroad Model Craftsman Extra Board Train 281, an empty unit coal train, pauses at the La Crosse depot for a crew change. The Milwaukee Road and Burlington Northern alternated coal trains and pooled U30Cs and wide-vision cabooses to run these trains between the Powder River basin in Wyoming and a power plant near Portage, Wis. Milwaukee Road on the Mississippi by Al Lesky/photos by Dan Munson Long a Midwestern fan favorite stretching from its namesake city across the prairies to the Pacific, T...