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The
next work/history weekend for 2009 will be held on October 10-11. Bruce Butler will present pictures of the old Milwaukee electric and will discuss his time as an NP telegrapher.
The weekend schedule tends to go as follows:
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out
of town guests begin to arrive Friday night and friendships are
renewed
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work
begins around 8:30 on Saturday morning as more guests arrive
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most
workers take lunch around 11:30-12:00
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local
museum members produce a dinner potluck about 6 PM.
This occurs under the east portico of the depot
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after
dinner the history portion of the weekend commences with a
presentation of an NP topic
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Many
out of town volunteers are put up at museum members residences. RV parking with
electrical and water hookup is available for those that bring their
RV's.
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Sunday
work usually begins at 8:30 to 9:00 AM and continues as long as
people want to work on the various projects
Previous
work projects have included the stenciling NP 50409 (drop bottom
gondola), work on new spur lines into the depot yard, painting of NP
1238 wooden caboose and stenciling of the letterboard, prep work on NP
588 passenger car, lowering of the old REA room door, stenciling SCCX
715 (Shell Oil tank car) and cataloguing of the Joe Caron slide
collection. Journal boxes have been repacked and speeders have
been cleaned and repainted. The decking was applied to the tender
of NP 1364. Various signs have been sandblasted and
repainted. A semaphore signal was made operable. work has
been done on new museum displays. The gift shop has been
improved. There has been a wide variety of projects so that
members and guests have been able to select projects that fit their
interests.
There have
been a variety of history programs. These have included the
following:
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April 14, 2007: Dave Sprau,
retired NP dispatcher, presented his talk on the railroad's
"Crossing the Cascades".
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June 9, 2007: Gary Tarbox,
president of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical
Association, presented "Steam Power on the North Coast
Limited" including our steam engine NP 2152
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September 8, 2007: Gary Tarbox
presented "Steam across Montana" with photos of the SPS
700 steam trip traversing the old NP mainline
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October 6, 2007: Jim
Frederickson, retired NP dispatcher. photographer, and author of
"Railroad Shutterbug", "Steam to Diesel" and
"Railscapes" presented his program on Stampede Pass
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April 12, 2008: Doug Shearer
presented a slide show on the history of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Museum
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June 14, 2008: Fred Fisher presented his program,
"Roslyn, Coal Mines and the NP". Fred was born in Ronald
in 1929 and moved to Roslyn at age 3. He worked in the NP's
Northwestern Improvement Company store for a year and contracted with
the NWI to cut and supply mine timbers.
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September
13, 2008: Jack Christensen, retired NP/BN engineer told many
tales of Stampede Pass including stories of pushing our Mann-McCann
spreader with a W-3
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October 11, 2008: Rick Leach presented a potpourri of slides covering various NP topics.
Phil
Edminster's webpage has
many photos that give an idea of an earlier workday. If you have
questions or wish to participate please RSVP to workday@nprymuseum.org
or telephone Doug Shearer at (509)
865-5019 evenings.
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