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CM & St. P RR Construction Postcards – men and equipment used for hydraulic excavating; dead trees with track and buildings along a hillside at Bryson; locomotive pulling freight cars on hillside above a river; two tracks along a river; men on top of freight cars being pulled by a locomotive along a hillside; men with rifles, a dog, and a buffalo skull on the tracks in front of a CM & St. P RR freight car (“4th of July at Sumatra, Montana”); group of men and two women standing on a depot platform next to train cars; man sitting on a one-person handcar on the tracks at “Hold Up Cut, Bearmouth”; bridge spanning a small canyon; two men, two women, and a child sitting on a handcar on the tracks at Ravena tunnel; entrances on both ends of a short tunnel with one entrance close to buildings.
File — box-folder: 1/10
Identifier: Subseries I
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Images document equipment, crews, construction camps, preparing rail bed, laying track, locomotives, steam shovels, dirt excavation, building of bridges and tunnels, etc. This subseries includes images taken near Missoula (circa 1907-1912) donated by Jack McDougall who worked as a contractor for the railroad. These photos were removed from a scrapbook and donated in 1962. There are images of track laying, tunnel and bridge building, and construction equipment, camps and crews. Photographs of...
Dates:
1880s-1960s