Nostalgia & History > Wonder if the coffee menu changed in those 10 years ... ;^ )

1. 'Starbuck MN 6/2/73
.2. Ditto on 9/25/83
yup, no 's' though

Both By Bruce Black



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/24 09:59 by valmont.

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Does the little red card denote something.

Bob

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This is what it looked like in 2023. 
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6119119,-95.5311546,3a,15y,102.16h,87.32t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxkpKsXJ6-ngroNGPLDm2Iw!2e0!5s20231001T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

robj Wrote:

> Does the little red card denote something.

That's the train order signal.  The type is sometimes known as a rotary or "paddle" orderboard.  The operator can rotate the paddle 90 degrees using a lever inside the bay window.  The paddle parallel to the depot means no orders, perpendicular means orders to pick up.  It's not direction-specific, so generally found on lighter-density lines.

Starbuck, MN was on a 87 mile branch line from Little Falls, MN to Morris, MN. At one time it had a motor car train and a local freight train train on that line.. The track was torn up on during the 1980's in segments of three removals. According the two X GN conductors from Willmar, MN that transfrred to Northtown (Mpls) after the1970 merger, the GN and NP did very little, if any interchange traffic between the two roads.

Ed Burns
Retired NP BN BNSF clerk from Northtown.