America's North Shore Journal

Here is the Milnor, North Dakota, Northern Pacific station.

As best my mother-in-law can recall, this picture dates from the late 1940′s or early fifties. Something about the grain elevator, over on the right.

As a little girl of six or seven, the lovely wife would take the train west, to Gwinner, to visit her maternal grandmother. By herself. She was a big girl.

She heard a term used for a couple of women that lived in the boarding house just beyond the station and had to have it explained to her. She cannot recall the term, but they were prostitutes. The railroad crews stayed at the boarding house.