Train time at Canton, S.Dak.

Train time at Canton, S.Dak.

By Angela Cotey | December 22, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


The Milwaukee Road’s station at Canton in the southeast corner of South Dakota is bustling with activity as cars off the Midwest Hiawatha from Chicago are switched into the Sioux Falls section of the Sioux. The year is about 1944; note the sign on the depot: “Canteen. Service men and wives only.”

Henry J. McCord photo

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