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On June 13, 1968, Tracy was hit by an F5 tornado which killed 9 people and injured 150.

Until 1960s, Tracy was a highly active railroad town on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as a concentration point for numerous branchlines in the area serving heavy agriculture.

Today, Tracy holds an annual summer festival called " Boxcar Days ," a sign of the railroad's influence on the town.

Currently, Tracy is still a division point on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, where railroad crews from both east and west exchange trains.