Any nice fresh news vis-a-vis further return of Horizon Fleet cars following rebuilds, let alone which routes such will likely be assigned to within measurable distance?
And note where this particular edition of #7 arriving LSE includes the "Day One" tribute locomotive, as in Siemens Charger 301!
And so the first of Amtrak's Airo trainsets for the Cascades services hath arrived, with seven more expected to follow within measurable distance....
Which I easily recognise as being of WIN (Winona, MN), what with the Jersey barriers separating the platform from the tracks.
(Would that the Borealis had more decent equipment for once; after all, such cannot depend on Superliner such forever ...)
Meanwhile, coming into Wisconsin Dells (WDL) on the cusp of another summer season ahead ...
Talk about keeping it nostalgic, while moving with the times ... and still faithfully serving the eastern part of Lake Minnetonka.
(This given the presence of construction activity there in the last fortnight or so)
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I was just looking at the train, so I didn’t see that the camera was focused on the grass. Oops.
This is the Amtrak California Zephyr headed for California from Chicago, about to make a stop at Union Station in Denver, Colorado.
The significance of the pipes at hand, per the story:
>Joseph Louis Maymaushkowaush inherited the position from his grandfather, also named Maymaushkowaush, who signed the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe, the agreement that ceded much of northeastern Minnesota to the United States, established the Grand Portage Reservation and reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights for the band.
>Ojibwe leaders carried pipes to those negotiations. April McCormick, Secretary Treasurer of the Grand Portage Tribal Council, said in announcing the repatriation that the practice "demonstrates that they viewed treaties as sacred oaths between nations."
>The hereditary title ended with Joseph, since succession ran through the male line and he had no son. His pipe was donated to the St. Louis Historical Society in 1939 and has spent almost 90 years in the collection of the St. Louis County Historical Society in Duluth.
Meanwhile, near LaCrosse, WI (LSE) ...
An interesting history of how KSTP-TV, Minnesota's first TV station (as first went on air in 1948) came into being ... including closed-circuit experimental tramsmissions at the 1940 Minnesota State Fair, a beautiful-looking lady serving as an early test card, and the first-ever affiliation agreement (with NBC, as opposed to network-owned-and-operated stations).
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