Great Northern and Northern PacificRailway Companies steam locomotive drawings. circa1900-1945.

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Great Northern and Northern PacificRailway Companies steam locomotive drawings. circa1900-1945.

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Steam locomotive, erecting and parts drawings from the GreatNorthern and Northern Pacific Railway Companies. Almost all of the drawings areoriginal inked tracings on starched linen paper, produced by the railroad for itsmaster files. In general these files are complete (containing both erecting andparts drawings) only for those engines still in service at the end of World War II.A few erecting drawings for earlier engines were acquired, and several partsdrawings date back to the 1880s. Most of the drawings are from the period 1900-1945.

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