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My ancestor was the second wife of Antoni Del Valle, Jacoba Feliz who lost her share of the ranch due to debt and court proceedings.

I’d love to see Amtrak or some other passenger rail operator reopen and restore Homestake Pass one day.

Thanks great stuff

Really appreciate your effort into this series. I followed the entire Montana portion of my way up to Montana for my ongoing internship.

Great stuff thanks so much

The Amtrak North Coast Hiawatha was down to 3 or 4 days a week when discontinued. Had this train become a Superliner, it may have remained to this day. Hard to match the Montana scenery anywhere by rail in America.

Thanks very interesting stuff

I live in Riverside, Ca, and I'd love to know if the last rail car talked about is still in this area and possibly able to be seen? I have also come across somebody's collection of Vista dome cars and a Caboose located in an industrial park, on a spur line, in the city of La Mirada, Ca on Valley View Avenue. If anyone has any information to share, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I boarded the North coast Ltd in prairie Du chien, Wisconsin en route to nozeman, MT to get .away from the searing heat wave in the midwest and join my parents who regulaarly summered in the Bozeman area to fish snd camp and get away from Iowa's heat

Keep this amazing videos coming!

Well done! Thank you for capturing the fascinating history of Rancho Camulos.

AMTRAC, boo hiss.

Rail passenger service worked, now government managed 😢, FUBAR

Thanks for the show. The town, now ghost town, on the west side of the tunnel was called Lester. My aunt, after graduating high school being 17, 1943/44 was hired by the NP to train as a telegraph operator. Her first job was in the town of Lester working third trick. She would have to walk out on the ice in the middle of the night to pass orders to the crew and throw a Mail bag on as they threw one off as the train passed by. I believe she worked at Kanaskat and Easton also. I believe I saw her picture on the screen in you intro video. She died a few years ago at 94. She was a real neat lady with lots of rail stories.

*The picture quality of this documentary is impressive!* 🎉🏆

Wheres episode 1

Just stumbled onto your ch. The North Coast Limited was one I missed although I had the privilege of riding the Super Chief and original California Zephyr. There’s one minor correction-the NP passenger trains traveled west of Missoula via Evaro Hill which were steeper grades but shorter distances to from the west.

No evasive action with a locomotive

Hey Dan! Amazing video, and the mention of Duluth MN got my ears up! I'm a volunteer at that railroad, and I hope to see you in Duluth sometime later on.

The NP used to run passenger service down one of their spur lines, well into the 1960's. South out of Spokane, through many small towns, to both Moscow, Idaho and Pullman, Washington. They used one of those all-in-one Budd cars. Engineer could drive from either end, and had a nice passenger compartment and baggage room. In Grade School, we even got to go on a class trip, riding from Pullman to Moscow. We always referred to it as The Bug. The farmhouse I grew up in, was up on a hillside above the Palouse River, and just across the river were the NP tracks, heading to and from Spokane. Big picture window in the living room, so I could sit next to the window while waiting for the school bus and count the cars on an NP freight going north. My loyalties were divided, however, because the Great Northern also came through, and also the W, I & M. And it seems as though all three were quite active in those days.

Back in 1959,,,Bevercreek , OHIO. A PRR train killed 10 at Factory rd. 2 Scout leaders and 8 6th grade girls. Everyone in the car were killed. To this day, this event haunts the greater Dayton area. There is a memorial. Plenty of links about this event on internet.

The NP first built a temporary switchback route over Stampede Pass to reach Tacoma. A few years later, Stampede Tunnel was bored from both ends using the switchback line for access. It took longer than one winter to bore these tunnels; the 1864 Pacific Railroad Act land grant requirement was satisfied earlier via the switchback route into Commencement Bay/Tacoma. And yes, there is a road over Stampede Pass. I've driven it many times. It just ends at the Tacoma Watershed border at Lester, so you can't continue into Tacoma.

RE: Your "The Northern Pacific was unique in that it had two color schemes." Unique means like no other. AT&SF, CRI&P, D&RGW, MP, N&W, SP, SSW, NYC, and other RRs all had one (or more) diesel color schemes for passenger service and another (or two other) diesel color schemes for freight service.

Nicely done video! I used to work at the Livingston Rebuild Center in the 90's, which facility has been closed for many years now. Sadly, the entire facility is likely to be closed up by the new business model. Rebuilding loco's there was probably one of the favorite jobs I ever had! It is a real kick in the pants to work the electrical problems and put the unit through it's paces!

Hi, Dan! Nice place here, that contractor did a very nice job. The house is sitting on a very good foundation, and looks amazing! I'm in construction as well, but I do the fine custom cabinet carpentry. Building a house is no easy job. I've built a few structures myself. By the way, are you going to the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association 2023 convention?

Difficult to subscribe to your channel ,most videos have a subscribe symbol on the video, had to click on your channel to subscribe...great grandfather worked for NP for over 50 yrs out of the Staples Mn depo

Via Rail's "The Canadian" is the last of the original streamliners from Toronto/Montreal to Vancouver. Beautiful !

UPDATE: BNSF and the citizens of North Dakota have been in a legal battle since this video was posted on CZcams over two years ago. Part of this has regarded the ownership of the bridge, which seems to have been settled in BNSF's favor. Very little progress has been made in regard to resolving this issue. The new bridge is to be built about 20 feet away from the old one, which may be behind their reason for wanting to destroy the old bridge as soon as the new one is finished. I have subscribed to the Bismarck Tribune newspaper in order to keep current with this situation. Still, I have yet to hear BNSF''s reason for wanting to remove the old one. You'd think they would just give the bridge to the citizens' of North Dakota, especially as the NP and now the BNSF have relied on their graciousness for over 140 years of profiting from running trains thru the state, and doing much business with its farmers, ranchers and other businesses. The reason behind BNSF's demands seems to be the final mystery of the Bismarck Bridge. I'll keep you apprised as to the outcome.

My grandfather had just retired from the Glendive, MT, (Yellowstone) division NP in '61, he got several phone calls from his engineer friends about this accident. He sat at the kitchen table and wept. A senseless disaster.

I'm sure you remember what happened in Motley , Minn.

My grandfather worked on the NP, first as a fireman (shoveling coal into the engine’s furnace); then, after taking a home study course, worked in the Round House as a boiler attendant, Mandan, ND.

Dan, here. I was born (1951) and raised in Bozeman (25 miles west of Livingston). Upon completing my final exam for a business degree from Montana State University, I left so fast that I was in California before the graduation ceremony took place. Not that I didn't love Montana, but there was not much opportunity in the state at that time (1973), And it was colder than all get out. And the bright lights & big city of Los Angeles beaconed. I made my mark here and am now retired. I did get thru the backdoors of many Livingston businesses when I helped my dad deliver laundry to motels, restaurants and other establishments (and Yellowstone Park in the summers). He made the drive from Bozeman to Livingston - over an often snow-covered Bozeman Pass on a busy and winding two-lane road - five or six times a week for around 25 years. What a sacrifice for his family! I tagged along to help him during summers and any other time I could do so. At that time, the Livingston Laundry occupied half the current Industrial Towel building. Dad and I would often have lunch at the Sport Bar which was at that time (1960's) a hangout for NP railroaders to play poker and cuss while they waited for their next assignment. What a treat for me that place was! There were card games on the left and (as it is today) the bar on the right. I never saw a woman in the place. Now, of course, it is a socially acceptable type of place. I'm told that some of the women who now dine there have even been to finishing school. Delivering laundry to the place so often, I was on a first-name basis with just about everyone at the old Murray Hotel (which had a good restaurant at the time). Anyway, I always loved Livingston and would have my eyes glued to the NP depot, shops and yard whenever possible. There were always handsome EMD F-units to be seen, and we'd often see the beautiful westbound North Coast Limited resting there while its domes were washed and the three-unit diesels were switched out for four-unit diesels to handle the upcoming grades in the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Range.

My dad was an NP employee until the 1970 merger, but passed away several months later. Family had railroad pass which enabled free passage on NCL once a year. Last took the train from Seattle to St. Paul with mom and sis in December, 1970. North Coast Hiawatha was a shadow of the grandeur of original NCL (which began running in 1900) but Amtrak should have retained it, even if only 4 days a week. Politics in railroading and politics always wins. This is history that will never be repeated on this line. Thanks.

hi Dan - I am from Livingston and am wondering who you are..... thankyou,

Wonderful information - thanks for the great video!

Great programs. I road both the NP North Coast Limited in 1967 and then Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha in 1973 (I think). The greatest memories on this southern route were the badlands of eastern Montana and wild horses running along beside the dome car at sunset.

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Hi Dan, I ran across your channel a few years ago, and I'm amazed at the history work you've done on the Northern Pacific. Are you with the NPRHA? I've got a lot of old Northern Pacific flyers, magazine advertisements, booklets, telltales, etc. Even got an old N.P. handbag that someone wrote their name and address in. (I expect an N.C.L. crewmember did it.) Very nice work here, thanks for the content.

In 1952 or 53, when I was three or four, we took the North Coast limited from Seattle to Spokane. Due to my early age my memory of it is a bit vague, but what impressed my little gray cells, the dinning car with white tablecloth and silverware. A bit of trivia, the Smith Tower is the tower to the left of King Street Station. At the time it was built, it was the tallest building west of Chicago.

Love it... Thank you... Rancho Camulos is simply magical...

Mike Gelhaus did write to Warren Buffet for financial assistance, he was hoping to get lucky. From the research I have done about Warren Buffet is his goal to increase his wealth and he has no interest in transportation history, railroad preservation or passenger trains. His focus on trains is he owns BNSF, because it's a money maker and he can't loose. Thanks for reading.

Dining car refurbishment would take two persons working fulltime one year, assuming they had funding for the entire project. Not two weeks!

Worked 25 and 26 from St. Paul Forsyth Mt on the baggage car beast job ever

Great job this video in every respect. I am almost more of a railroad structures fan than of the trains themselves. It would be great if the rr built its new rr bridge close to the old one, assuming that the trail idea goes through. Sep. 29, 2022, St. Joseph, MO, downstream just a little ways. Again--great video! Please make an update video.

Thats most likely A Butte Anaconda & Pacific caboose