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Minneapolis & St. Louis side-door caboose

By Angela Cotey | August 19, 2016

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

The conductor of Minneapolis & St. Louis’ Story City, Iowa, mixed train looks out from the old hack’s side door at McCallsburg, Iowa, in the 1940s.
William F. Armstrong photo

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