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Minnesota identity crisis

By Brian Schmidt | February 2, 2024

A black-and-white photo of an early diesel switcher moving a Great Northern boxcar through a snowy landscape — Duluth & Northeastern No. 32, still wearing its former owner Elgin, Joliet & Eastern’s livery and reporting marks, switches at Cloquet on a cold December day in 1963. The Electro-Motive Corp. SW1, built in 1940, is still in service today on the D&NE’s successor, the Cloquet Terminal Ry. John Gruber photo

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