A re-enactment of an attempted train robbery that occurred near St. Peter and Kasota in 1892 was the brainchild of Arnie Lillo, an inverterate tinker-inventor who fabricated the train, car and railroad tracks in his rural Good Thunder workshop. He played the role of engineer in the re-enactment that was staged at the Nicollet County Fair on Saturday.

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