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The Ron V. Nixon Collection
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Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25839
	Date: Unknown  Location: Unknown, Unk Photographer: Unknown Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: A trestle and a fill are getting the finishing touches when laborers gouge out a right of way, probably in Montana, on the Milwaukee Road.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25829
	Date: circa 1900  Location: Fish Creek, MT Photographer: Unknown Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: It?s the opening stages on the building of another large bridge as the Milwaukee Road builds west. A contractor's locomotive helps position a crane bringing in another steel plate.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25840
	Date: During 1908  Location: Malden, WA Photographer: Unknown Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: A contractor's dinky locomotive brings some side-dump cars of fill material onto a curving trestle on a newly built stetch of the Milwaukee Road. Many railroad builders supplied their own light locomotives for construction work.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25825
	Date: August 17, 1908  Location: Tekoa, WA Photographer: Lynn Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: "Most of the bridge building crew pose with their device, labeled as the only traveler of its kind in the US. The scene is Tekoa WA. On the Milwaukee Road."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25823
	Date: August 19, 1908  Location: Tekoa, WA Photographer: Lynn Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: Construction scene on the Pacific Coast Extension of the Milwaukee Road. Elaborate machinery and ironworkers place another girder on the columns.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN25824
	Date: September 08, 1908  Location: Tekoa, WA Photographer: Lynn Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: "Much of a bridge has taken shape, but there are still more columns, still more girders before this part of the Milwaukee Road extyension to the west coast is finished."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN23749
	Date: circa 1915  Location: Spring Creek, MT Photographer: NP Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: MILW 118 and a crane at the construction of the Spring Creek Viaduct.

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Image Record Data - RVN32636

Date: During 1912  Location: Sentinel Butte, ND Photographer: J.T. Campbell Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "Bridge construction and replacement is a never ending project on a large railroad. In western North Dakota, NP 2415, a class T Prairie is on the job with a wrecking crane and a pair of cabooses, replacing a bridge during the brief North Dakota summer. The engine is a 1907 Baldwin, one of 150 2-6-2's on the NP. It will be rebuilt totally, in a design better suited to heavy switching, in 1926."

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Image Record Data - RVN00001

Date: September 1934  Location: Chicago, IL Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Minnetonka was the first locomotive purchased by the NP and was used during the original construction of the line in the east. It was then shipped to the west end for the line construction from Kalama to Tacoma. Later sold and used by logging interests. NP traded NP 51 to Polson Company in 1933 for Minnetonka which became a company symbol.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN04295
	Date: September 1937  Location: Coulee Dam, WA Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Not Applicable Caption: Grand Coulee Dam Washington Pan view of Grand Coulee Dam being constructed across the Columbia River

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

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