Talk:Thief River Falls, Minnesota

Looking for Railroad Info

I'm hunting for info on the railroad tracks that ran from TRF to Goodridge. It may apply to the county or TRF history, as well as histories of Mavie and Goodridge which were along the tracks.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Madbunny101 (talk • contribs) 08:57, 13 July 2007

On the Pennington County Historical Society website we have photos of the railroad, a postcard from Mavie, lots of Goodridge stuff, and a 1923 fire map from Mavie. On my personal site I also have pictures of Mavie. I've been adding my pictures of towns to Wikipedia articles (they're all CC-licensed or better) but I haven't got around to adding it to the Mavie article yet. If you're looking for the particular location of the tracks, you can see that on Topozone. -- Afiler 23:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

name

Question: Anyone know the orgin of the name?

Answer: The name "Thief River Falls" was given that name because long ago when it was home to the Indians(Native Americans), the chief's son was playing by the river, fell in, and drowned. The chief of the tribe was so upset toward what happened to his son, that he cursed the river so that every year one person will drown in it just like his son, and his/her family would suffer the same heart break that he did. Hence the given name, Thief River Falls.

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Citations for Cycle Detection Warning System

There is no evidence (that can be found with Google or Bing) that an entity called the Cycle Detection Warning System ever existed near Thief River Falls. Please provide some in the form of a reference. rhyre (talk) 04:33, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Regarding Citations for Cycle Detection Warning System

It looks like this is it: https://web.archive.org/web/20081120005117/http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1026661.html

Here you can see a blogpostfrom 2008 on baseballtoaster referring to the "Cycle Detection Warning System". On the sidebar of this archive, we see the referenced warnings, and in particular: "If a player needs a home run for the cycle, the level of the alert varies depending upon the determination of the Cycle Detection Warning System, which is headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minnesota."

Worth note is the fact that baseballtoaster did indeed shut down in 2009: https://fairpole.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1204218.html

I'm guessing a fan of the blog added the reference to Cycle Detection Warning System, possibly B. Timmerman himself. It appears it was just a small baseball news section published by baseballtoaster, although I was unable to find any official "about Cycle Detection Warning System" beyond what I have linked above.

It might be worthwhile to write a short wikipedia article about Baseball Toaster, and include the Cycle Detection Warning System as a brief subsection. I am not sure if web.archive.org can be cited as a source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.252.37.232 (talk) 21:37, 12 March 2021 (UTC)