  william crooks, named after the colonel of the minnesota volunteers' sixth regiment during the american civil war (and later chief mechanical engineer for the st. paul and pacific railroad),wills, jocelyn. boosters, hustlers and speculators: entrepreneurial culture and the rise of minneapolis and st. paul 1849-1883. minnesota historical society, st. paul, mn p. 105. 2005 is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the first locomotive to operate in the u.s. state of minnesota. william crooks laid out the initial ten mile track between minneapolis and st. paul the locomotive operated on. the william crooks was added to the national register of historic places on april 5, 1974. constructed in 1861 for the minnesota and pacific railroad as their number 1,keyes & middleton (1980). p.40 it first provided service a year later in 1862 for the st. paul and pacific railroad (into which the m&p had been reorganized by that time). after completion, the locomotive traveled by rail to la crosse, wisconsin, which was the nearest rail point to st. paul at the time. from there, it was loaded onto a mississippi river barge bound for st. paul. though it arrived in st. paul on september 9, 1861, it was not un
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