The Ron V. Nixon Collection

Steam Locomotive Record - NP4

1907 Number: 4 Wheel Type: 2-Truck Type Name: Heisler Class: V-2 Builder: Heisler Year Built: 1907 Construction Number: 1106 Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Former Owner: Former Number 1: Former Number 2: Former Number 3: Disposition: Sold to Pacific State Lumber Remarks: Total Built - 2 (1-2). NP had only two 2-10-0 Decapods, but when built they were the largest and heaviest locomotives in the world, a distinction which NP again held fifty years later. Originally Nos. 500 and 501, it is said they were designed to haul trains on the steep temporary track over the Cascades before completion of Stampede Tunnel. Afterward they were in mountain freight service, then on the Camas Prairie. Later they were used as switchers in Spokane, Tacoma and Hoquiam.

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