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Date: December 01, 1945 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Class Z-8 4-6-6-4 no. 5138, near the Missoula, Montana, roundhouse. The coal dock appears in the left background." |
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Date: December 01, 1945 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: NP Class Q-5 4-6-2 Pacific no. 2239 awaits its next call at Missoula. |
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Date: December 01, 1945 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Class Z-8 4-6-6-4 no. 5138, near the Missoula, Montana, roundhouse. The coal dock appears in the left background." |
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Date: December 01, 1945 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 2239, Class Q-5, 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive awaits its next call at Missoula " |
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Date: January 16, 1946 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Leon Urbach, President, Seward Chamber of Commerce, at Missoula, Montana" |
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Date: January 28, 1946 Location: Auburn, WA Photographer: Albert Farrow Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 2453, Class T-1 locomotive at Auburn with ramp to coal dock in background." |
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Date: February 09, 1946 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 2671, Class A-4 stands on a yard track in Missoula yard waiting for its next assignment." |
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Date: February 11, 1946 Location: Dickinson, ND Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Class W-2 2-8-2 no. 1919 in yard service at Dickinson, North Dakota. Alco built this engine in July 1905 under construction no. 31134 as a tandem compound, and NP numbered it 1619. NP converted it to a simple expansion locomotive and renumbered it from 1619 to 1919 in July 1912. Shop forces dismantled this engine at Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1958. In the early 1950s, Dickinson crews liked Class W-2s for yard service, especially sister engine no. 1917, but it was destroyed in a head-on collision at Wibaux, Montana, on September 20, 1954." |
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Date: February 12, 1946 Location: St. Paul, MN Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Ready availability of diesels and the end of wartime traffic made many steam locomotives surplus in 1946, including this 43 Year old Class Q Pacific. It would be hauled north to Brainerd and the cutting torch in four months." |
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Date: February 12, 1946 Location: St Paul, MN Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 1646, Class W rests outside Mississippi Street roundhouse. Note this locomotive has a snow plow pilot." |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |