GNRR Trains & Tracks – MWRR locomotive and passenger car “through train” (1910); large group riding in an open-air sightseeing car on a passenger train traveling between Glacier Park Station and Troy (circa 1910); crewmen and others with engine #2008 (1913) (taken by Brainerd Photo of Havre); group of men, including A.G. Baker, standing at the end car of a passenger train in Great Falls (1914); crew and train of open-air cars at Glasgow loaded with automobiles and tourists traveling west (June 1923); engineer and engine #1, St. P&P “William Crooks” pulling two cars (1927); group of people looking at “William Crooks” engine, probably at Chinook station (circa 1927); locomotive #3232 at the Whitefish station (1953); front of locomotive #2584 at Havre; windmill in field (with sign reading “Fairbanks Morse”) with a freight train on the tracks at Opal Siding, Blackfeet Indian Reservation in background., circa 1910-1953
Scope and Contents
Photographs of trains and tracks for GNRR, Montana Central Railroad (MCRR), Montana Western Railroad (MWRR), and St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (St. P&P) including locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, caboose, livestock cars, sightseeing cars, dome cars, and flat cars hauling aluminum. Some images are from the GNRR Photo Division taken in 1966 to promote the Empire Builder passenger train traveling through Glacier National Park.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1910-1953
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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