Fairmount and Veblen Railway

The Fairmount and Veblen Railway (F&V) was a short line railroad which operated in Richland County, North Dakota; Roberts County, South Dakota; and Marshall County, South Dakota.

The railroad was established in 1913, and that year constructed trackage from Fairmount, North Dakota southward to the towns of Rosholt, Claire City, and Veblen, South Dakota. The line was extended southward the following year, from Veblen to the South Dakota towns of Roslyn and Grenville. A steam locomotive acquirred from the Soo Line Railroad was used on the railroad.

The town of Rosholt was named for Julius Rosholt, builder of the F&V.

In the mid-1910s the F&V was acquired by the Soo Line Railroad, and its trackage operated as a branch line by that railroad. The portion of the line between Veblen and Grenville was abandoned in 1971, and in 2000 the trackage between Rosholt and Veblen was sold to to the newly-formed Sunflour Railroad. Trackage north of Rosholt remains in use in 2006, operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Soo Line's corporate successor.

References

*Hufstetler, Mark and Michael Bedeau. "South Dakota's Railroads: An Historic Context". Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office, 1998.