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Daily Times
May 25, 2021
Ladies and Gentlemen, you are in Lahore and it is April 1955. The city is blown away by an extraordinary event and for a few vibrant weeks, residents of this historical city will converge on the railway station to catch a glimpse of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous pair – Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger. Hollywood has dropped in for a brief but memorable visit and a part of the Lahore Railway Station will itself take up an unusual appearance with lights, reflective mirrors, filming equipment and the dazzling atmosphere that one usually associates with movie sets, for this after all, is the location shooting of one of MGM’s most ambitious productions of that era,
The Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway (MN&S) was a Minnesota short-line railroad that operated between the cities of Crystal and Northfield from 1918 until 1982. It was a profitable bridge line, routing traffic past the crowded freight yards of the Twin Cities onto connecting railroads at Northfield.
The main route of the MN&S ran through the western and southern suburbs of Minneapolis. The southern terminus was at Northfield, with important connections leading from there to the Rock Island, the Chicago Great Western, and the Milwaukee Road.
The financially unsuccessful predecessor of the MN&S was the Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company. It was known as the Dan Patch line for the famous racehorse owned by the companyâs proprietor, Marion W. Savage. Colonel Savage owned the International Stock Food Company, a mail order supplier of animal feed. Contemporary advertisements attributed Dan Patchâs victories to the quality of Savag