Railroads

Grassroots Rebels: Municipal Power and Railroad Regulation in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1883-1900 / Eric J. Morser

An article by Eric J. Morser, then visiting professor of history at the University of New Mexico, that appeared in the Business and Economic History On-Line, volume 3, 2005. The La Crosse municipal government in the later part of the nineteenth-century forced a wealthy and influential Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad line to reconsider its practices and to act in the public interest.

La Crosse County Historical Sketches, 1931-1955

The Building of the Southern Minnesota Railroad / H.E. Rogers

Bridging the Mississippi at La Crosse and Winona / H.J. Hirssheimer

The Car Ferry from La Crosse to Grand Crossing, Minnesota / H.E. Rogers

Opening Celebration of the Southern Minnesota Railway, 1870

This reprint of an article from La Crosse Morning Leader newspaper, Nov. 18, 1870 reports on the celebration of the completion of a branch railroad, the Southern Minnesota Railway, which connected La Crosse with the Minnesota cites of Hokah, Houston, Rushford, Lanesboro, and Fountain.