Box-folder 2/6
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Contains 1 Result:
GNRR Construction, 1888-1900 – crew dormitory cars and supply cars on tracks; crew and horses pulling iron cars work laying track (c. 1888); group in front of log building with sod roof and “Restaurant Meals at all hours” sign with caption “Hotel on the Manitoba Railway” (from “Sport Among the Rockies” published in 1889) (taken by Charles S. Francis); locomotive #155 and crew unloading ties; men, horses and wagons in front of Shepard Winston & Company office car for the St. PM&M in Marias Valley (c. 1891) (taken by H.G. Klenze); in the distance, crew, horses and wagons near the river and tracks in Marias Valley (c. 1891); train with construction materials on bridge over Two Medicine Creek (1891); logging crew, horses, wagons (one loaded with logs), St.nPM&M engine and cars, and building with ”Libby Townsite & Lumber Co.” sign (1892); steam shovel loading dirt on flat cars for construction of rail bed near Fort Benton (1899); man shoveling in a ditch to relocate tracks near Fort Benton (1899)., 1888-1900
File — box-folder: 2/6
Identifier: Subseries I
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Construction photographs for the St. Paul Milwaukee & Manitoba Railroad (St. PM&M) and the GNRR are arranged by date: 1887, 1888-1900, 1911-1966. The subseries includes crews, equipment, camps, dormitory cars, rail bed construction, laying tracks, building train stations, etc. Some photographs were received from the GNRR’s Public Relations Department.
Dates:
1888-1900