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Steam Locomotive Record - NP325

1907 Number: 325 Wheel Type: 4-6-0 Type Name: 10-Wheeler Class: S-10 Builder: ALCO Rogers Year Built: 1907 Construction Number: 37580 Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Former Owner: Former Number 1: Former Number 2: Former Number 3: Disposition: Scrapped Brainard Remarks: Total Built - 10 (320-329). In 1907 the South Manchurian Railways ordered ten top-heavy, lowwheeled ten-wheelers from the American Locomotive Co. After the engines were built the order was canceled and they were eventually purchased by NP for use on mixed runs and branch lines. The 321 and 328 were kept at St. Paul for the Stillwater, Taylors Fails and Grantsburg runs. The 325 and 326 were assigned to the Pony and Norris runs in Montana; the others went to North Dakota. The S-10s could not run fast or pull much but they could negotiate sharp curves, cross light bridges, and could even be turned by manpower on "Armstrong" turntables. The photo shows 328 being turned by hand at Grantsburg, Wisconsin, April 7, 1950. Note the complete unconcern of the engineer as the remainder of the crew strains to push nearly 100 tons!

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Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman