Thanks, I’ve had some requests to share some of my sources with others so I thought I’d try to give back a little. I’m going to try to do it more often, but we’ll see. Hopefully some day I’ll take the time to actually put together a whole page dedicated to all the sources I use here on Explorer. That will take a little more time to put together however.

I really like the biblio/footnotes. A very nice touch.

Aha! That makes more sense. I didn’t think they’d run over the same line – since they were stiff competitors and all. Thanks for the help!

As far as when Mineral Range took over the H&C, I suppose we can say it was slowly merged into Mineral Range operations over a few years – probably due to a general buy up of stock I suppose until the owned a majority.

I hope this helps to answer some of your questions.

There is an excellent genealogy of the Mineral Range and a number of the railroads that operated up north, in the DSS&A section of the the Soo Line Historical Society web sight. There is a link on the main page to the DSS&A sight.