About End O Line Railroad Park and Museum

End-O-Line Park had its beginning in 1972 when Colleen Illg and Roxanne Probst, junior leaders in the Poco-a-Poco 4-H club in Currie, decided to clean around the turntable in the railroad yard.   With the help of 4-H Leaders their 4-H project called Community Pride inspired them to preserve the manual operation turntable for the future. The 4-H club cleaned the pit of the turntable and picked up and mowed the area around the turntable. What had been an eyesore now attracted attention as a pleasant roadside stop.

One of the 4-H Leaders, Louise Gervais, continued working at the park for 37 years helping to restore and maintain this "gem" of southwestern Minnesota.   As Director of the Park, Louise put a tremendous amount of time into the park making it the showcase it is today.

One reason the 4-H Club started the park was to remind people about how the railroads helped pioneers by bringing in all kinds of supplies like the mail, milk, coal, farm implements, canned goods, dry goods, etc. Little communities sprang up about seven miles apart on the railroad lines.

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