Editor’s note about the Great Northern Rail car: Several years ago, we investigated a site along Highway 2, west of Minot, North Dakota. It took some digging and neighborly visiting to get the story of the Northern Pacific, later a Great Northern rail car,...
The Confluence Center marks two major historic routes Imagine the merging of two major highways into one. (Think of the merger of I-90 and I-94 in Chicago, or the merger of Interstate 35w and 35e south of Minneapolis.) It means traffic, business, and civilization will...