FUN FACT OF THE DAY
DINKY SWITCH ENGINE
The quarry's engine, called the dinky switch engine, was constantly moving sandstone around the quarry. It pulled flat cars loaded with mill blocks to the saw mill. It hauled loads of scrap rock to the rock crusher and made many trips every day hauling undesirable rock to the dump south of the railroad bridge. When the sandstone was to be shipped, the switch engine moved flat cars with building stone, gondola cars loaded with paving blocks, and cars filled with crushed rock to the edge of the quarry to be picked up by Great Northern Railroad engines.
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