Tom Kotnour dies at 85

Written by jrood

Tom Kotnour, 85, of Wahpeton, N.D., died December 26, 2010 at his winter home in Mesa, Ariz. Tom was born January 29, 1925, in St. Paul, Minn. He was raised there and graduated from high school in 1943. He entered the U.S. Army in June of 1943 and left in 1946 when he started working for the Great Northern Railroad. He was assigned to the following locations: St. Paul (three times), Minot, N.D., Havre, Mont., Seattle, Wash., Chicago, Ill. Tom served as a consultant in the formation of the Washington Central Railroad in 1986, which was merged with BN in 1996. Tom assisted in the start up of the Red River Valley & Western. In 2002 he formed a corporation and purchased the Minnesota Northern Railroad, retiring in June 2006 with 60 years of railroading.

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