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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line
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Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the Historical Society by James Lyndon, a former public relations official with the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie Railway, who has identified the man on the far left as village president G.T. Vorland, a man interested in improving farming methods. Fourth from the left is E.C. Frost, a district official of the Soo Line, and sixth from the right is local farmer John Gunderson.
1917
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