Trip to Phillips County inspires railroad story

EDITOR"S NOTE: Mark Mayfield, of Burlington, Iowa, visited Phillips County a few week's ago and submitted a Letter to the Editor asking if he could write an article about the railroad in Malta. His story follows below.

There was a time when you could watch a train passing by and count the cars. But some of the trains passing through Malta look different and it can be hard to figure out just what to count.

A recent planned trip found me overnighting in your pleasant town. Like any outsider, exploring was in order so I set out walking and was drawn to that famous of small town places, the train...