Taken sometime in the 1950s. Otto Conrad Perry photo, my collection.

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

Three NP passenger locomotives F7A 6511A, F9B 6701B and F7A 6501A has just uncoupled from the passenger cars at St. Paul Union Depot on April 11, 1968. Photo by RR Wallin, from my collection. ... (more)

With a mixed of mechanical and ice reefers on the head end, Extra 3617 East heads into the yard at Yardley, Washington with units 3607 and U25C 2512 in August 1968. Fruits from central Washingt... (more)

NP SD45 3617 leads a beer tasting train South across state highway 61 and into Duluth.

NP SD45 3617 leads a beer tasting train South out of Palmers on the return trip to the Duluth depot.

Northern Pacific F7 6510C leads train number 2 near Dickinson North Dakota in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

NP In ND. Built in 1898, teh Northern Pacific Railway Depot designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert. Passenger train ceased to used this facility in 1970, but it was added to the National ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local begins the trip up the branch to Harrison at Sappington, Montana, on October 4, 2022. On the rear of the train is former Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 th... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local trundles upgrade on the branch to Harrison, Montana, on October 4, 2022. On the rear of the train is weatherbeaten Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 that is ... (more)

On October 4, 2022, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local departs Logan, Montana, with a lone, weatherbeaten, but unique car. Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 is headed to a new owner, and will ... (more)

When it was the Inland Empire Railway Museum @ Spokane International Fairgrounds, now relocated west to Reardan as Inland NW Rail Museum.

Preserved. The former Northern Pacific Railway station in Missoula, Montana is a wonderfully preserved example of simplified Renaissance Revival architecture designed by Reed and Stem. From... (more)

F3(A) 6501C with F3(B) 6501B and F5(A) 6505A photographed at Seattle, Washington in August 1961, wearing NP's two-tone green and white passenger livery. Photo by H.G. Benton, photo part of my ... (more)

NP 105 and the CBQ 13500 caboose give rides at the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse. The ride passes a string of Soo, Milwaukee Road, and Burlington Northern Cabooses. ... (more)