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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: A Shay locomotive awaits its turn for repairs as it sits outside a roundhouse stall in Montana. Some railway officials have come by to observe the visit. |
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Date: February 06, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: James M. Fredrickson Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The roundhouse walls, at least some of them, have come tumbling down, but there is still a steam locomotive, even if it is a visiting Shay from an area industry, riding the turntable and awaiting entrée to what is left of the roundhouse" |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The westbound Mainstreeter pauses at Missoula on a late winter day. There is not much active on the platform, a few travelers, some empty baggage wagons, and a few railroad supervisors." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "It?s the end of a final run and a railroad career for a veteran engineer, and a manager is on hand to bid thank you and farewell. The master of the Mainstreeter is retiring." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "There are not many smiles at the end of Main Street. An engineer, Left front in coveralls, and glasses, poses at the end of his last run with friends and locomotive. " |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The blue flag is on the engine, so nothing will be moving for a while as a crowd of family and friends and railroaders join to have their picture taken with Mr. Yost, locomotive engineer, ending his career this 1962 winter day, with a last run on the Mainstreeter." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The blue flag is on the engine, so nothing will be moving for a while as a crowd of family and friends and railroaders join to have their picture taken with Mr. Yost, locomotive engineer, ending his career this 1962 winter day, with a last run on the Mainstreeter." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The retirement celbration is subdued. A career has ended, and the engineer and his wife look sad at the end of many years on and around the railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Yost and a railfan friend share a quiet moment." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "There are a few smiles now as two couple, railroader and tailfan, observe the retirement of a Northern Pacific engineer at Missoula in the Sixties." |
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Date: February 27, 1962 Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Northern Pacific engineer Yost and a friend sit for a picture after the engineer has made his final working run, to Missoula on the westbound Mainstreter" |
| Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman |