Taking It Easy After 55 Years of Railroading By John Forssen George E. Odion is relaxing at his home at 420 E. Pine St. these days after 55 years and 10 days of railroading. For the past several years, he has been engineer of the crack North Coast Limited, sitting Read More
Honored for 45 Years of Service With Milwaukee Tom Petroff, who helped construct the Milwaukee Railroad through Missoula, was honored Wednesday for his 45 years of service. Division Roadmaster T. A. Prata presented Petroff and his wife with a lifetime silver pass, which is given to employes with 45 years Read More
Isaac Stevens knew a good thing when he saw it! In 1853 Isaac I. Stevens was commissioned by Congress to lead a survey expedition to this area to find a favorable route for the Northern Pacific. Two members of his party – Captain C. P. Higgins and Frank L. Worden Read More
The Almost Lolo Railroad Northern Pacific Missoula – Kooskia Division 1909 – Seattle, Wash – The Northern Pacific Ry., W. L. Darling, St. Paul, Minn., Chief Engineer, is to let contracts at once for the construction of the Missoula – Kooskia Division, known as the Lolo Read More
Frontiersmen Welcome Electric Train The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway is now electrified for a distance of 440 miles in Montana, over two mountain ranges from Harlowtown, Mont., to Avery, Idaho. Through Missoula near the western terminus of the electrified section, all regular freight and passenger trains Read More
Trains Will Run Despite Handcar Thriller Article from The Missoulian – July 4, 1913 Railroads Will Keep To Their Schedule During Great Contest On Avenue Today Trains ran as usual on both railroads yesterday, the average number of travelers came and went and everything was regular Read More
Tragic Train Fire Kills Four Four members of a theatrical troupe en route to Missoula from Spokane to appear in a performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at the Empire Theater here were burned fatally March 16, 1901, when one of two special cars caught fire. The Northern Pacific train to Read More
A Notable Man Connected directly and personally with the construction of both the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound roads through western Montana is one man whose record in this particular is without parallel in the history of railway building. W. O. Winston of the Read More
Linked below is an article about the NP’s Missoula Rocky Mtn. Division by J. A. Phillips: http://home.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/rmintro.html
Linked below is an interview with Clarence by J. A. Phillips, originally published in The Mainstreeter- Quarterly publication of the Northern Pacific Railway Association: http://pw2.netcom.com/~whstlpnk/rmhay.html