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Date: June 14, 1961 Location: Pablo, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "A decade before palletizing and lots of forklifts, and several decades befofre the rackflat cars for lumber, one man works at loading a typical rib-sided Milwaukee boxcar at a lumber mill near Pablo, MT. It is going to be a long workday." |
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Date: June 14, 1961 Location: Pablo, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "While a Rube Goldburg vehicle brings more lumber for the loading shed a pair of timber graders assess the quality of some new lumber before it is shipped out in forty foot boxcars from a lumber mill near Pablo, MT." |
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Date: July 10, 1961 Location: Gold Creek, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Descendents of Henry Villard, one of the early driving forces in the creation of the Northern Pacific pose below the sign commemorating the driving of the last spike on the NP. One of the guests is an NP stewardess nurse." |
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Date: August 06, 1961 Location: Nine Mile, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Can you find the freight train in this picture. An eastbound freight extra shows two diesel cvab units emerging from the trees and a string of freight cars far back following a river bank. See them yet? |
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Date: October 07, 1961 Location: Wallace, ID Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "A big railroad like the Northern Pacific would own several thousnad pieces of rolling stock that almost never produced revenue for the company but was essentially to keeping the roadway and tracks and bridges in good order. Here is a very modern pile driver, a recent product of American Hoist and Derrick, an east end customer inm Saint Paul." |
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Date: During 1962 Location: Lime Spur, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "NP Train No. 26 with Vista Dome on Butte Hill near Lime Spur, MT" |
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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: An SW1200 diesel switcher hauls a Shay onto the Missoula turntable. Thwe Shay has been visiting for minor repairs. |
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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Its not that tight a squeeze for a turntable designed to hable Mallets. A diesel switcher and a Shay hit just fine at Missoula, where the steamer will be getting minor repairs." |
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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "It?s a sight worthy of stoppingto watch, the visit of a steam locomotive in 1962. Except for the fact that the engine is a Shay, the sight of a steamer here seven years earlier would have been a normal daily event." |
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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Four General Motors freight units wait in the background and two men in the foreground brave the icy chill to watch the proceedings as a diesel switcher horses a Shay locomotive onto a turntable. |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |