The Great Railroad Arrives at Last – How it Feels to be a Terminal Town. Correspondence New North West. Missoula, June 25. – The week just passed has been one of excitement for Missoula. The entire talk has been railroad, and each evening citizens met, compared notes, watched for the Read More
Four Missoulian Views of Weeksville – “Tough Railroad Town” Tale of Forgotten Cities Is Recited Old-Timer Tells of Weeksville, Where Bandits Were Hanged A story of a community of more than 5,000 persons which virtually sprang up over night and then disappeared as suddenly was told yesterday by an Read More
Americans in Siberia – 1919 – Everett Showalter Railroad Dispatcher One of the most interesting of letters which has come from faraway Siberia to Missoula, in many days, is one received by Mrs. Everett H. Showalter, from her husband, who is now a dispatcher with a railway regiment in the Read More
525 busy men finish railroad through Missoula – 1883 – Missoulians Mrs. Dora Hauck, Sutton Draper, and James P. Lee were witnesses Missoula (M. T.), July 16 – At the railroad front this morning 400 whites and 125 Chinese were laying track. The road is finished seven miles from here, Read More
NP Line Missoula to Wallace – 1889 How the Snake[1] Was Built The following recollections of events that occurred during the construction of the Northern Pacific line from Missoula to Wallace – more than 20 years ago – probably contain some inaccuracies; for these the lapse of time is pleaded Read More
Titus Has Chicks For Easter On His Diners Eats Artist Of Great Big Spud Line Will Make Guests Feel At Home As is already well known by the patrons of the Northern Pacific railway, the dining car department rarely allows a holiday of any kind to pass without making a Read More
Rapelje Nearly Killed in Rail Accident – 1909 One of Montana’s well-known railroad men, John Rapelje, was injured in an accident near “Eddy” Montana in 1909. Eddy was located about ½ way between Plains and Thompson Falls, Montana. When the accident occurred the Daily Missoulian gave it a front-page headline: Read More
Riding Old Rails. We’ve been strolling down to the NP station the past few days, just watching the trains pull in and pull out. As No. 1 and No. 2 met the other day, I had an expert observer at my side. Bob Sheehan retired from railroading 30 years ago Read More
N. P. Ice Harvest To Start Tomorrow – Missoulian 1/7/1926 Railroad to Put Up 20,000 Tons on Local Division; 8,000 Tons Come Here. The annual ice harvest on the Northern Pacific system is starting. Cutting at Homesteak, 10 miles east of Butte, will be begun tomorrow for the local division Read More
Missoula Gas Company and the World’s Shortest Belt Line Railroad Dentist ‘Ties Up’ Railroads By Al Darr Free enterprise found a happy home in Montana. Back when the income tax was a bad joke and a bureaucrat’s pipedream, inventive men came here in droves to coin money. Dr. Joseph Oettinger, Read More