Switchman's strike
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Looking east from the Western Avenue bridge over the Great Northern Railway during a switchman's strike. The state capitol and Rice Street are visible in the distance.
Photographer: St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press
Date: June 25, 1950
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Frogtown's Railroads
Frogtown's Railroads
The best view of the railroads is from the east sidewalk of the Dale Street Bridge, where the railroads passed through what is now Great Northern Business Park.
A railroad was first chartered by the Minnesota Legislature in 1857 and received a…