Set Free upon the world ...

Today the Minnedosa Heritage Inc group launched the book Trails to Rails: The Railroading history of Minnedosa ...

About twenty five or so people gathered in the Library, and over coffee and story telling had a chance to preview the book and see the collection of stories, anecdotes and photos that Bob Mummery had gathered to document, celebrate and most importantly remember the importance that the Railroad has had on the town of Minnedosa.

The book is available in Minnedosa, or through mail order from the Minnedosa Tribune ... if your journey has taken you through or from Minnedosa, and somewhere in the background there lurks a connection to the Railroad that has been so much a part of Minnedosa's history, I invite you to get a copy and enjoy the stories ...

The best thing about this book is the way in which it preserves a portion of history that has been slowly ebbing away from the town of Minnedosa ... The roundhouse is gone, the various buildings have vanished, the tracks have been pulled up and the elevators have fallen ... now there remains only the red brick Station that has stood vigil along the tracks ... a station from which countless passengers set off, or arrived from their journeys, ... a station where countless crews traded off as they began or ended their shifts ... a station where a million memories were lived, shared and preserved as the memories of the railroaders of the Minnedosa and Braedenbury subdivisions ...

This year the station was saved thanks to the effort of a small dedicated group of volunteers who saw immeasurable value in its old brick walls ... and as the prairie summer that small dedicated group celebrated the hard work that went into a fine book that chronicles a small porton of the many years of service that the Railroaders of Minnedosa have logged ...

Good Job Bob. Good job Minnedosa Heritage Inc. Good job and thanks to all the men and women who over the years have been employees of the Railroad in Minnedosa ... as Bob Hope used to say: "Thanks for the memories ..."