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Collection Summary
Collection: 00095 - North Dakota Historic Sites Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00072
Title: Railroad tracks to install Northern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive at Camp Hancock Bismarck (N.D.)
Date: 9/27/1955
Creator: Sperry, James E.--(James Edward)
Inscription/Marks: [Handwritten in black ink on bottom front of photograph] Col. 95-72
Summary: Caterpillar tractor using tow rope is pulling locomotive into permanent location. Russell Reid and others watch the progress. [Camp Hancock was originally known as Camp Greeley, founded in 1872. The name changed the following year. The site initially was the supply depot for Fort Abraham Lincoln. The post, as seen here, became an office of the Weather Bureau after it was no longer needed to supply Fort Abraham Lincoln. Today the site is located in Bismarck on West Main Street.] __[Bismarck_Tribune_Mon__Oct_24__1955_p01, p04] Steam locomotive 2164 moved to Camp Hancock Tues 09-27-1955 Bismarck_Tribune_Wed__Sep_28__1955_p13 Give ‘Er Th Snoose, John! It was the last run for “2164” as the 1909 Baldwin locomotive was pulled up into the park at Camp Hancock Museum here Tuesday, September 27, 1955. The Northern Pacific donated the Q-3 locomotive to the North Dakota State Historical Society. Dedication ceremonies are planned later. Special trackage was laid to pull the locomotive in with a Caterpillar tractor. (Tribune photo) NP Locomotive Dedication Camp Hancock 10-22-1955 Bismarck_Tribune_Fri__Sep_16__1955_p01 Dedication of a steam locomotive which the Northern Pacific Railroad is presenting to the state of North Dakota as an exhibit at Camp Hancock, Bismarck will be held October 22 at 2 p.m., according to Russell Reid, superintendent of the North Dakota Historical Society. The dedication date was selected at a meeting between Reid, L. L. Perrin, public relations counsel for the railroad and Paul L. Westine, local Norther Pacific Railroad agent, here Thursday. A special track is to be erected at Camp Hancock, which is located at Main and First to get the locomotive on the grounds. It will be placed on a section of track which will be underbedded with a crushed rock base. A fence will be erected around the engine to protect it from marauders and souvenir hunters. Reid said that he hopes to arrange a transportation parade for the day with local civic organizations and business houses cooperating. Governor Norman Brunsdale and Robert MacFarlane, president of the Northern Pacific, have signified that they will be on hand for the dedication. The locomotive is a class Q-3 engine, serial number 2164 which has been used to power the North Coast Limited between Chicago and the west coast through Bismarck. It was made in 1909 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. It will face west at the museum in honor of the railroad’s conquest of the west. It is 78 feet, 4 inches long and is 11 feet wide. It is now stored in Mandan and has been painted and renovated. The Northern Pacific expects to bring it to Bismarck soon and move it onto the grounds.
Red ID: PH_I_146604 Image ID: 107814 Image Notes: 00095-00072

Collection: 00095 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: North Dakota Historic Sites Photograph Collection
Date: 1872 - 1963

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