| Once upon a time, the Minneapolis & St. Louis was a failing mid-sized "Grnager" railroad in bankruptcy. Along came a man named Lucien Sprague, a talented railroader and salesman who nursed the "Louie" back to health. In fact, he traveled over the rails that once existed here during his tenure at the M&St.L. He would cry if he saw what had become of this stretch of the railroad he so dearly loved. We are in Victoria proper at this point along the abandoned grade of the "Tootin' Louie" that became the C&NW Morton Sub after the 1960 purchase of the Louie by the North Western. The rails came up in 1980 and mother nature moved in afterward. |