For the past few months I've been trying to help a fellow Billings resident with selling a large train collection, which had belonged to her late husband. He and his father had worked for the Milwaukee Road in Montana, and I was gifted a few items from his collection. There are lots of Milwaukee items, along with a few other railroad mementos he picked up along the way. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, and had some interesting artifacts from his time with the union.
There are some MRR pencils and a spiffy Christmas matchbook, a few maintenance handbooks, and several MRR official business envelopes. There's also a NP Vista Dome North Coast Limited train schedule from 1958, and a photograph of a UP Big Boy from 1966. Of greatest interest to me are some handwritten notes listing details about various MRR round houses in Montana, and a listing of many of the unique MRR diesel and electric locomotives in use in the 1960's and 70's.
All of these items will be stored and treasured like the rest of my railroadania collection, and will eventually be housed in the museum/display section of the "train room of the future". Thank you Dee, for giving me this wonderful collection of railroad history!
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| MRR pencils and a matchbook |
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| Christmas wishes on a MRR matchbook |
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| MRR business envelopes and booklets |
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| NP schedule, UP photo, handwritten MRR notes about Montana roundhouses and locomotives |
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