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Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25809
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Avalanche scene on Couer D'Alene branch as seen in official engineering department photograph.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25810
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: A passwenger car vestibule protrudes from the avalanche that covered a train and Couer D'Alene branch track in 1936.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25811
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The Couer D'Alene branch was already operated only for freight service in the winter of 1936, so a passnger car was very definitely in the wrong place when an avalanche occurred, covering a train. "

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25812
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: There is not much indication that a railroad ran here after a massive snowslide covered an NP branchline in Idaho.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25813
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The slow work of extricating a train, one piece at a time, from an avalanche, is under way. It is a long job involving pick and shovel and axe and plenty of muscle."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25814
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Heroes pause for a group photograph. They are making progress, and you can see the rails again on an Idaho branch after a snowslide."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25815
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The detail work is finished and a rotary snowplow arrives to finish the job of reopening the Couer D'Alene branch after a massive snowslide.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25816
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: The line is open after much hard work. Two of the men responsible stand beside the track they have reclaimed from a mountain winter.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25817
	Date: February 29, 1936  Location: Coeur DAlene, ID Photographer: Eng Dept Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Snowbanks dwarf a laborer who has just helped reopen a snow covered track. But Nature has all the time in the world. The NP has won a round. The fight will continue.

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Image Record Data - RVN32726

Date: Circa 1943  Location: Polson, MT Photographer: Maynard G. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The eastbound local freight makes a dramatic exit from Polson en route to Missoula. The exhaust from the steam locomotive reminds one of the cotton stuffing exhausts model railroaders would use when photographing their layouts. No cotton here, just a hard working steam engine on a cold winter day."

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Ron V. Nixon Collection - Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University - Bozeman

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