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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2020
Caption: The Iron Horse Comes To Billings Marker, panel 2
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) This engine worked the mine-tipple of the Northwestern Improvements Co. coal mine in Red Lodge in 1915. The engineer is Palmer Boyd. The engine came from the elevated railroad in Chicago.; This Yellowstone Park tourist train in Red Lodge, MT on September 1, 1939 is met by the Northern Pacific transport bus that ran from Red Lodge to Silver Gate, where passengers were transferred to the yellow Yellowstone Park Hotel Company buses. The mailman and paper boy are also meeting the train.; (upper right) Photographed in Billings during the summer of 1915, this Pacific Express train carried passengers and freight to and from the Pacific coast.
Submitted: March 13, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p572702
File Size: 3.641 Megabytes

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