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This Day in Minnesota History

July 9, 1975

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The reassembly of steam engine 201—once operated by Casey Jones and the last of its kind in existence—is complete and ready for display on the grounds of the Owatonna Tool Company. Reuben Kaplan and his son, "Buzz," brought the engine from Peoria, and they would move the Owatonna Union Depot building to the same site the following year.

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