CM & St. P RR Trains – “first special train in Butte” including locomotive #462 and passenger cars with people, horse team, and building behind the train (August 2, 1908); group of men and a boy (“first visitors to Butte on the Milwaukee RR”) standing next to a passenger car with buildings behind them (October 1908); crew with locomotive #60 and freight cars near Butte; two men standing with electric box cabs #10205 (also called box motors, square heads, pelicans) at Deer Lodge (circa 1915); men on electric box cabs #10201 (circa 1904-1918); “700 calves delivered by the T-H for shipment” standing near a corral with a train and water tank behind the herd (1926)., circa 1904-1926
Scope and Contents
Photographs of locomotives, train cars, tracks, bridges, tunnels, and scenery along the rail line arranged by date, if known. Some photographs were received from the Milwaukee Road News Bureau. A series of Montana canyon photographs through the Bitterroot Mountains was received from the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1969.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1904-1926
Language of Materials
No textual or other language materials are included in the collection. Captions are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 4 Boxes
From the Collection: 401 Photographic Prints
From the Collection: 47 Film Negatives - Nitrate
From the Collection: 20 Film Negatives - Nitrate
From the Collection: 27 Film Negatives - Safety
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
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