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| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN22188 |
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Date: June 5, 1958 Location: Seattle, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The end of the line in several senses of the word for L-9 switcher 1080. This switcher was built by Baldwin in 1907. |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN22189 |
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Date: June 5, 1958 Location: Seattle, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Certain parts like the headlight and the bell and the builders plate are missing in this scrapline scene. 1080 has a few more months to wait before scrapping. |
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Date: June 5, 1958 Location: Seattle, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Still looking cleand and road worthy 2626 waits in a scrapline at Seattle its home base for much of its service life. This engine was even briefly a movie star appearing with Clark Gable in "Key to the City" in a scene at Portland Union Station." |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN22239 |
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Date: June 6, 1958 Location: Noxon, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The eastbound Mainstreet Northern Pacific's secondary streamline follows the path of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark a century and a half after the Voyage of Discovery. |
| Click Image to Enlarge | Image Record Data - RVN22241 |
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Date: June 6, 1958 Location: Noxon, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Montana as seen from the Mainstreeter. A river does indeed run through it in this case the Clark Fork. |
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Date: June 13, 1958 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The first locomotive on the NP a Smith & Porter switcher named the Minnetonka was used for years as a goodwill ambassador for the railroad at on-line community ceklebrations like this one in Idaho in 1958. |
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Date: June 13, 1958 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Of course when the Minnetonka would come calling everyone would want to get a picture of the kids visiting the locomotive cab |
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Date: June 13, 1958 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The future CEO of StoryLine Trains poses in the cab of the first NP locomotive |
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Date: June 13, 1958 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The future CEO of StoryLine Trains poses in the cab of the first NP locomotive |
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Date: June 13, 1958 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Visit over - the photographers family leaves the Minnetonka. The little engine finally found a permanent home at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota. |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |