Decorated locomotive for an employee picnic with Northern Pacific Railroad Shops roundhouse in Brainerd in the background. Banner says COME FOR FUN. The Roundhouse was demolished in the 1960s.
Northern Pacific Railway Transcontinental Train, the first northern transcontinental train, as it appeared in September, 1883, enroute from Saint Paul to Gold Creek, Montana, where on September 8 the Northern Pacific's last spike was driven. Aboard this train were President Henry Villard of the Northern Pacific, General U.S. Grant, and other dignitaries of the United State and foreign countries. Following the spike driving ceremonies, the train proceeded to Portland, Oregon.
Soo Line Railroad Locomotive 504 with workmen, Ole T. Lee (1849-1926), John Lurth, Theodore Nelson (1866-1952), Michael Padden (1859-1939), John Bernath (1834-1908), and Cassius A. Sholes (1858-1960).
Train engine number 1 of the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad . Guy Otis an engineer from Bigelow is one of the men in the photograph.
Two men are posed by the front of a Chicago and North Western train engine. A hand operated turntable is visible in the rear. A wooden pilot (cow catcher) is attached to the front of the engine. The man in dark clothes on the right is Joe Bell.
Engine on the Minnesota and International railroad bridge over the Battle River. Claude Ritchie is the engineer, Art Setterholm is the fireman, John Vanhouse, is the brakeman and Roy Rice is the pilot. (description from,"The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
View of the William Crooks Locomotive, the first railroad engine in Minnesota. Left to right, #2 Wm. E Litchfield,#3 Col. Wm. Crooks (namesake for the locomotive). #4 Mr. Willmar, #5 Charles A. F. Morris (namesake for Morris, MN).
Oliver Iron Mining Company train, engine #308. The location of this photograph is unknown; but the Iron Range includes parts of the following Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis.
D. M. & N. Number 505 pulling a loaded ore train over the scale in Proctor. Viewed from the St Louis River Road bridge. Used on page 100 of F. A. King's "The Missabe Road."
Panoramic view of an operating Winston-Dear Company 0-6-0 steam locomotive number 114 in a winter scene drawing several Winston-Dear Company ore cars at may be a switch junction at an unknown location. A non operating steam locomotive is near the end of the line of ore cars. At right are several empty open hopper cars idle on the tracks.