About 1910 the Milwaukee Road completed
a line east from Cologne
https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.77163,-93.78135&z=13&t=U
to Hastings
https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=44.74300,-92.85200&z=13&t=U
A third of the way down the left column,
this page
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010881814&seq=577
says freight from the Pacific Coast to Chicago
would take the bypass and avoid delays in St Paul.
But Scribbins' book says the line east of Farmington
was abandoned in 1935. So that bypass idea
never happened?
