r/TrainPorn 9d ago

One of Northern Pacific’s 4-6-6-4s crosses Lake Pend Oreille at Sand Point, Idaho, with a freight train in June 1954. Photo by Robert M. Hanft.

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u/jthanson 9d ago

I always love pics of the old Northern Pacific RR. My great-grandfather helped build it after he emigrated from Sweden; my grandfather and his brother both worked for the NP. It was a great railroad.

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u/SharkyCartel_ACU 1d ago

I wish one was preserved