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Date: February 15, 1946 Location: Livingston, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 2687, Class A-5 passes the freight house platform in Livingston, MT." |
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Date: February 15, 1946 Location: Livingston, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP 2685, Class A-5 backs down toward roundhouse past the west end water tank and is about the pass the Livingston Ice House on the north side of the yards." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West prepares to depart Missoula, Montana. The engine is a Class Z-8 4-6-6-4 built by Alco in March 1943. The crew: Engineer Otto C. Behner; Fireman M. H. Slenes; Conductor Byron W. Jenison; and Brakemen T. L. Sparks and L. N. Olsen. Engineer Behner is the oldest among these men, having been hired as a fireman in June 1908 and promoted to engineer in October 1917. The youngest is Olsen, hired as a brakeman in February 1937. Ron Nixon rode in the cab with the engine crew to Paradise so as to obtain publicity photos of a string of new refrigerator cars that were in the train. Ron had permission to stop the train anywhere he wished for this purpose. The series of photos of this train between Missoula and Paradise were the results of his effort." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West prepares to depart Missoula, Montana. The crew: Engineer Otto C. Behner; Fireman M. H. Slenes; Conductor Byron W. Jenison; and Brakemen T. L. Sparks and L. N. Olsen. Engineer Behner is the oldest among these men, having been hired as a fireman in June 1908 and promoted to engineer in October 1917. The youngest is Olsen, hired in February 1937. Ron Nixon rode in the cab with the engine crew to Paradise so as to obtain publicity photos of a string of new refrigerator cars that were in the train. Ron had permission to stop the train anywhere he wished for this purpose. The series of photos of this train between Missoula and Paradise were the results of his effort." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West prepares to depart Missoula, Montana. The crew: Engineer Otto C. Behner; Fireman M. H. Slenes; Conductor Byron W. Jenison; and Brakemen T. L. Sparks and L. N. Olsen. Engineer Behner is the oldest among these men, having been hired as a fireman in June 1908 and promoted to engineer in October 1917. The youngest is Olsen, hired in February 1937. Ron Nixon rode in the cab with the engine crew to Paradise so as to obtain publicity photos of a string of new refrigerator cars that were in the train. Ron had permission to stop the train anywhere he wished for this purpose. The series of photos of this train between Missoula and Paradise were the results of his effort." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Cyr, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped between Plateau and Cyr, Montana. This location is on the long curve just west of Plateau Tunnel. It was on this curve in August 1967 that Section Foremen Ben Adams was killed when his track motorcar collided with fast freight 601, running as Extra 2806 West. Said Ron Nixon to me of the scene in this photograph: "I was supposed to get pictures in a scenic setting of a string of shiny new refrigerator cars. Shiny and new, my eye! The weather was so lousy and there was so much smoke and steam in some of these views that you couldn't tell whether those cars were yellow or pink with purple polka dots!"" |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Spring Gulch, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Passenger Extra 2193 East passes the west siding switch at Spring Gulch, Montana. Extra 5141 West is in the siding. The passenger extra is bringing troops home in the months after the end of World War II. Engine 2193 is a Class Q-4 4-6-2 built by Baldwin in October 1909. " |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Rivulet, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped at the west switch, Rivulet, Montana. The west siding switch was a spring switch, which required special block signals. There was a "dwarf" signal governing a train exiting the siding. This signal was located just behind the photographer, and its placement between the tracks necessitated a slight curve in the siding. A spring switch allowed a train in the siding to exit without having to stop for the brakeman to close the switch behind the train. Spring switches were typically installed at locations where such a stop would be operationally undesirable, such as with ascending grades (which made it difficult for the locomotive to start the train again) or sharp curvature (which made signalling the engine crew from the caboose difficult or impossible)." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Spring Gulch, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped in the siding at Spring Gulch, Montana. This train ran from Missoula to Paradise via the Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, nicknamed variously by crews as "the low line" (for its river grade along the Clark Fork) or "the snake" (because of its numerous curves). The Sixth Subdivision, known as "the high line," extended bewteen DeSmet and Paradise, via Evaro hill and Dixon. Through passenger trains operated via the high line, and most freights operated via the low line. Although there were places along the low line that permitted higher speeds, most freight trains operated at a steady 35-40 miles per hour. The high number and close proximity of these curves didn't allow a tonnage freight sufficient distance to accelerate much above these speeds. This line was very scenic, causing more than one young fireman to get himself into trouble by "gawking" out the window instead of tending the fire." |
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Date: March 01, 1946 Location: Spring Gulch, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Extra 5141 West stopped in the siding at Spring Gulch, Montana. This train ran from Missoula to Paradise via the Rocky Mountain Division's Fifth Subdivision, nicknamed variously by crews as "the low line" (for its river grade along the Clark Fork) or "the snake" (because of its numerous curves). The Sixth Subdivision, known as "the high line," extended bewteen DeSmet and Paradise, via Evaro hill and Dixon. Through passenger trains operated via the high line, and most freights operated via the low line. Although there were places along the low line that permitted higher speeds, most freight trains operated at a steady 35-40 miles per hour. The high number and close proximity of these curves didn't allow a tonnage freight sufficient distance to accelerate much above these speeds. This line was very scenic, causing more than one young fireman to get himself into trouble by "gawking" out the window instead of tending the fire." |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |