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The Ron V. Nixon Collection
Subject Search - Train Order - 28 Records Found
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Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33418
	Date: August 25, 1890  Location: Missoula, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The phrase "run wild" is yet to be superceded by the more sedate "run extra," but the form of the order would be recognized by most operators of a later era."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33411
	Date: December 16, 1890  Location: Livingston, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "A less formal train order that would never have passed muster a few years later gives advice to a train crew. The instructions are imprecise and engine numbers, a vital item of information, are lacking."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33414
	Date: August 14, 1900  Location: Cinnabar, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The wording has not yet taken on the clipped form that will be standard in the near future, but this order is a stage in the evolution of trauin dispatching by the timetable and train order method that will serve an industry for over a century."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33415
	Date: August 18, 1900  Location: Cinnabar, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The Form 31, which NP stopped using before many other railroads did, was an order used for restrictions so severe that they needed the signed affirmation of conductor and engineer. E. g., Hey, Mon, your train just lost all of its rights, per the pictured order."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33422
	Date: August 29, 1911  Location: Whitehall, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "This is a running order for a motor car, which probably means a small gas propelled vehicle for a track instector or a repair crew. Such equipment usually did not get orders. They got lineups listing expected trains and were simply expected to stay out of the way."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN33410
	Date: June 25, 1919  Location: Whitehall, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "The United States Railroad Administration is in charge as this order, A set of meets between scheduled trains is established, altering the normal patterns set up in the timetable. 41 is a through passenger train. 220 and 223 are local passenger trains. 826 is a local freight."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN32716
	Date: December 18, 1920  Location: Whitehall, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Many railroad station operator/telegraphers saved a copy of the first train order they copied. Ronald Nixon saved this meet order from Whitehall MT giving a westbound and inferior by direction passenger train certain rights over two eatbounds.

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN32719
	Date: May 08, 1921  Location: Whitehall, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: Extras received authority to run from train orders. This one authorized a freight train and established where it would meet a local passenger train.

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Image Record Data - RVN33413

Date: May 10, 1921  Location: Whitehall, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Northern Pacific Railway Caption: "This train order is probably indication that something bad has happened. Two work extras are putting in a long day during daylight hours, and they have as power some late model engines. The work extras are probably wrecking outfits, and all trains at Whitehall are being told about their location."

Click Image to Enlarge	Image Record Data - RVN32784
	Date: August 04, 1921  Location: Deer Lodge, MT Photographer: Ron V. Nixon Railroad: Milwaukee Road Caption: A form 19 train order from the electrified zone of the Milwaukee Road grants running rights and establishes a meet while also informing extras on the status of scheduled trains.

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

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