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| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11522 |
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Date: October 18, 1941 Location: Muir, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "A W-3 and a W-5, NP's best Mikados, with a little help froma pusher at the end of the train, get a move on some fairly hot freight. Stockcars are in the standard position, right behind the engines." |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11523 |
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Date: October 18, 1941 Location: Muir, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: A woman indentified as JWC poses for a photo near Muir MT. |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11527 |
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Date: October 20, 1941 Location: Pablo, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "It looks like a mixed train, but passenger service was no longer offered on the Polson branch in 1941, so we can only speculate why there is a coach on this short freight extra. The engine is a Class W Mikado,,, Alco class of 1906. It will spend 49 years on the NP." |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11533 |
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Date: October 21, 1941 Location: Polson, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "A freight train can look like something small under the big sky of Montana. A W Mikado is bringing an eastbound extra out of Polson, bound for the mainline at Dixon and a tie-up at Missoula." |
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Date: October 21, 1941 Location: Polson, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Six freightcars and a combine coach, probably for the express and lcl freight as well as the crew, are a light load for a 1904 Alco Mikado. There were 160 Class W Mikados on the NP, pulling every kind of duty." |
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Date: October 21, 1941 Location: Polson, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 1516, Class W pulling X1516W out of Polson with a mix of freight cars and one coach." |
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Date: October 27, 1941 Location: Whitefish, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "GN 887 Steam Locomotive on passenger run as photographed at whitefish, MT" |
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Date: October 29, 1941 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The first car suggests that this 1909 Baldwin Q-4 is on some type of a work train today, or istied up, hence no white flags, after finishing a work assignment." |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11561 |
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Date: October 29, 1941 Location: Garrison, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 1841, Class W-5 sits still in yard at Garrison, for this photograph." |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN11562 |
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Date: October 29, 1941 Location: Garrison, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 1760, class W-3 locomotive hooked to a gondola in Garrison yard." |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |