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Group To Meet Train No. 15. Will Whistle lis 'hm Song' Thursday Sioux Falls Argus-leader i April! 6, 1969 For mail delivery, April 17, 1969 vided real luxury for their pas sengers. There were armchaired meaning for special passengers on special trains soldiers on the troop trains. For thousands observation cars, a late afternoon tea of dainty bread and butter sandwiches served by the dining car steward, and excellent meals topped off with chocolate candy mints made by time of No.

15. Travel through the flood area still was on a basis of extreme caution. All but memory now is an era which witnessed about 40 passenger trains daily at the city's four depots. Only the freights are left and only three rail lines the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and aboard when equipment cars return to Minneapolis on a non-revenue run.

Gone with No. 15 it was No. 16 on return runs to the Twin City terminal will be passenger service by rail in South Dakota. Gone, too, will be the significance of the designation of Aberdeen decades ago as the in those years their memory of the Aberdeen rail stop is a can ABERDEEN (AP) Another "last train." And it is a far cry from luxury streamliners that once rolled over Milwaukee Road tracks. In its final days, passenger train No.

15 dwindled to three cars behind a diesel engine where once a single giant steamer trailed as high as 29 passenger cars with first class service as ritzy as any in the nation. Train No. 15 will roll into the FOLLOW THE CROWDS GET YOUR SHARE OF an Aberdeen candy company of teen in the Milwaukee station where they were served pheasant sandwiches. Pacific, itself dwindled in name All that is over. The last passenger train will be "abolished" "Hub City," focal point of four those days.

Then with air service on the upswing and more automobiles on the highways, the peak of service was passed in the 1940s. The end of the run westward Thursday morning. to the Milwaukee Road; the Great Northern Railway and the Chicago and North Western Railway which ab THE BARGAINS! At Vermillion VERMILLION, S.D. Planning and coordination in higher education in South Dakota will be the program theme of the 32nd annual Conference on Higher Education at the University of South Dakota on April 28. Faculty members of colleges and universities in the state will participate in the discussion.

Presiding at the sessions will be Glen Bachman, Yankton College; Ernest Teagarden, General Beadle State College, and Dean Henry V. Cobb, University of South Dakota. Guest speaker at the opening session will be Dr. G. Theodore Mitati, chancellor of the Minnesota state college system.

Other speakers will be Dr. Richard Gibb, South Dakota commissioner of higher education, and Dr. Richard Timmins, president of Huron College. rail lines to east, west, north and south. Beset in recent years by dwindling patronage and public criticism for service deteriora Jet Crashes Wl MONO sorbed the fourth line, the Min Aberdeen station from Minne MNMMERtCARO.

EJOHNSON HARDWARE BONN, Germany (AP) was cut to Spokane from Ta- neapolis and St. Louis Railway. In the peak period of nearly West Germany lost its 94th coma, in Washington, then apolis in the dark hours early Thursday. As it whistles its "swan song" and grinds to a tion and the inconvenience of F104G Starfighter jet Tuesday chopped by intervals across nine decades between the first single passenger train in 1886 in a crash near its home base at wide Montana to Billings, to Wittmundhafen close to the Ger middle-of-the-night scheduling, the Milwaukee's last run was beset, too, by floods. Sunday and Monday, high wa Deer Lodge, to Miles City and last depot halt it will erase the last vestige of a once glamorous era of train travel between and the final lone train in 1969.

man North Sea coast. The pilot to Baker. was killed, bringing the toll of there were glamorous names for the train-riding public the Olympian, the Columbian, the Finally Midwestern Aberdeen the Twin Cities and the Pa cifjc Coast. ter at Montevideo, canceled those runs and even for German Starfighter pilots to 50. became the western terminal IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS fkHEAVY-DUTY LAWN RAKE SPRING Olympian-Hiawatha.

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