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The Ron V. Nixon Collection
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Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN02539
	Date: July 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Elizabeth C. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 5105, Class Z-6 exploded while moving X5105E killing 4 people. Cab of NP5105 ended up, upside down in the river"

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN04233
	Date: July 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Mrs. H.L.S Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "N.P. Locomotive No.5105 Boiler Explosion, low water."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01287
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 1841, Class W-3 on Work Train handling wrecker to scene of X5105E to pick up NP 5105 which exploded at Willis killing 4 people"

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01286
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Wreckers picking up derailed freight cars from X5105E which exploded at Willis, MT "

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01285
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: View of the freight cars that derailed after engine explosion with X5105E

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01284
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Close view of the engine of NP 5105, Class Z-6 which exploded at Willis, MT killing 4 people."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01283
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Closer view of NP 5105 which is upside down in the river after the explosion of the locomotive which killed four people. Ron wrote Verne Alexander: "You probably know all about [5105] blowing up at Willis 7-7-38."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN01282
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: Elizabeth C. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 5105, Class Z-6 exploded while moving X5105E killing 4 people. Cab of NP5105 ended up, upside down in the river"

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN03394
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: M. W. Scott Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 5105 explosion Willis, Mont. Same wreck as RVN01282. Views by M. W. Scott NP class Z-6 4-6-6-4 after boiler explosion View shows seven workers on top of the wreckage Remarkably, 5105 was rebuilt at Livingston and returned to service"

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN03395
	Date: July 7, 1938  Location: Willis, MT Photographer: M. W. Scott Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 5105 explosion Willis, Mont. Same wreck as RVN01282. Views by M. W. Scott Nixon wrote: "The guy picking his nose is Supt. G.N. Slade who got fired over the deal. No one felt bad about it."[Letter to Verne Alexander]"

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