After decades of rumors and three years of reprieves, the last Ford Ranger pickup will roll off the line at the Twin Cities Assembly Plant around December 16, 2011 ending an 86-year run of high-wage jobs cranking out everything from the Model T to armored World War II vehicles to Country Squire station wagons along the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minnesota's Highland Park. Here, Steve Overby aligns the latch on a hood. (Jeff Wheeler/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)
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