 The Minnesota Connection is brought to you by Minnesota News Network. Awatonna Tool Company already had 50 years of history by the time they made headlines again in early July 1975. Already a leading supplier in special service tools and equipment, OTC's Reuben Kaplan, whose father founded the company in 1925, took on the task of reassembling a relic. He purchased the famed steam engine 201, the same once operated by engineer Casey Jones