| The Winona and Western Railroad (nee the Winona and Southwestern) created the village of Simpson, Minnesota when it became a junction point from the W&W's main line to Rochester. The line from Rochester to McIntire, Iowa, lasted until the 1970s, being operated in succession by the W&W, Chicago Great Western, and Chicago and North Western. Now only this ragged, overgrown tract of land separating two properties stretching north out of Simpson remains as a monument to Simpson's glory days as a railway junction. |