Editing Currie, Minnesota (section)

==End-O-Line Railroad Park & Museum==
[[Image:End-O-Line Railroad Park.JPG|thumb|right|The park's Georgia Northern #102 steam engine and coal tender]]
End-O-Line Park is nestled on Currie's northern edge. Founded in 1872 by Neil and Archibald Currie, this place was thought to be the most beautiful country with the [[Des Moines River]] moving across the prairie and Lake Shetek in the west. The park is along Murray County Road 38 near [[Minnesota State Highway 30|Minnesota Highway 30]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.endoline.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=105 |title=The Museum Today |accessdate=2010-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419055538/http://www.endoline.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=105 |archivedate=2010-04-19 }}</ref>

The railroads were the first great achievement in transportation of the machine age. This achievement led to the expansion and growth of the West. It is this story, as well as the story of the area, that the museum tries to tell.

A model railroad display, in [[HO scale]], is one of the museum's highlights. It is an authentic reproduction of the Currie railroad yards as they were around the turn of the 20th century. The layout features scratch-built locomotives and structures, complete landscaping, a full wraparound mural, and complete sound effects. Visitors can hear the old steam locomotive puff and chug throughout the countryside, accented by the steam whistle, bell, and hiss of steam.

District Number One, the Sunrise School, was moved to End-O-Line Park and restored by the Murray County Historical Society. The embossed tin ceilings and walls, vertical wainscoting, recitation bench and many blackboards are typical, but the triangular sunrise worked into the front and back of the schoolhouse is unique. The one-room school with tin dinner pails, water cooler, washbasin, old world maps, bell tower and rope, ink wells, and cloakrooms brings back memories to share with children.

End-O-Line Park's section house, originally in [[Comfrey, Minnesota|Comfrey]], was built by [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company|Chicago and Northwestern]] for a section foreman and his family. A saltbox structure, the house has been restored to the early 1900 style.