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A view from 1939:

LAUREL, (3,311 alt., 2,558 pop.), straggles on both sides of an intricate pattern of railroad tracks. Products from many parts of the world pass over the joint trackage here of the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. From here much of Montana's wheat, hay, copper, zinc, livestock, wool, lumber, poles, and other products are routed directly east to midwestern towns; southeast to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Gulf points; and west for ocean shipment. Long drags (ordinary trains, or strings of empty cars), redballs (special merchandise trains, with sealed cars), and hotshots (trains that travel at excess speed from terminal to terminal) arrive here, are "broke up" and "made up," and depart at all hours of the day and night.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.