Montana Railroad History - MONTANA POSTCARDS

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         This section contains postcards of various locations in Montana
I have been collecting Montana postcards for quite awhile and have found that they are a wonderful research source concerning the history of Montana. This section contains
postcards from around the Big Sky State focusing on locations that are somehow
transportation related. The photos are listed in alphabetical order and since most are quite old the quality may not be all that good, but hopefully the subject makes up for it. As for the "Dates" listed in the captions...many dates are the ones listed by the postmark which could vary quite a bit from the actual date of the photo.
There are separate sections for Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Milwaukee Road related postcards.

When available the postcards will have a brief place name description and other relevant caption information.

The photo files are "thumbnailed" with some files being large which may take awhile to load and No...I don't have any copies of the postcards for sale as most have been resold or traded.

Many folks are wondering where the rest of the alphabet locations may  be - well, I'm working on it. Please check back now and again, I'll be adding some more images when I can.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MONTANA POSTCARDS

 A Alberton - Alhambra - Anaconda - Armstead

 B Babb - Baker - Basin - Belfry - Belgrade - Belt - Big Arm - Bigfork -
     Big Sandy - Bonner - Boulder - Bozeman - Broadview - Brockton - Browning

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Alberton- town in Mineral County; named for Albert J. Earling, at one time the president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway

                                             
                 2500 Dollar Bar at Alberton                 4000 Dollar Bar at Alberton              Milwaukee Road Alberton Depot

The "Silver Dollar" Bar started at Alberton, Montana as can be seen from these postcards. It was first called "Lincoln's Silver Dollar Bar" and after moving to Haugen, Montana along Highway 10 {Presently Interstate 90}
kept changing its dollar value until it became the $10,000 Dollar Bar that it is today. Of course, before the big
silver inflation in the 1980's all the silver dollars were actually "silver." Today the majority of dollars are bi-metallic "Eisenhower" dollars. 

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Alhambra - a town along the Montana Central Railway {Great Northern Railway} just south of Helena near Clancy whose tracks were abandoned after floods in 1981.

                                                         
                   Alhambra Hot Springs - View 1                    Alhambra Hot Springs - View 2                 Alhambra Spring Water Car at Great Falls

                                                               
                Alhambra - Sunnyside Hot Springs               Alhambra - Sunnyside Hot Springs                Alhambra Hot  Springs - Boat Ride
                       Side & Rear View 1914                                   Hand-tinted Postcard

                                                                                                          
                                                                                  Passengers Detraining Great Northern
                                                                                    train Alhambra Springs circa 1916   

Looking at the Alhambra Hot Springs tank car shows that "Designer Waters" were popular even in the 1920's!

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Anaconda - county seat of Deer Lodge County; named for the Anaconda Mine at Butte. Michael Hickey, who chose this rather odd name from a remark attributed to Horace Greeley to the effect that McClellan’s army would surround Lee’s like a giant anaconda, owned the mine

                                   
           Anaconda Panorama 1887             Looking South Toward Smelter        Main Street Looking South 1900's       Park Avenue Looking East 1909

                                   
       Main Street Looking South 1909         Main Street Looking South 1910              Washoe Smelter 1940's            585 foot Anaconda Stack at Night

                                
       Birdseye View Looking East - 1923      Looking Toward BA&P Depot        Furnace Inside Anaconda Smelter      Main Street Looking North 1950's

                                  
           Anaconda Washoe Smelter         Anaconda Main Street Parade-1908        Anaconda Hotel in Anaconda        Aerial View Washoe Smelter 1950's

                                       
            Anaconda Washoe Stack           Anaconda - Silver Lake Highway               Anaconda "Big Stack"                    Anaconda Washoe Park 

                                       
            Anaconda Washoe Stack               Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Ry -              Men standing at BA&P             Anaconda Washoe Park and Baseball
                                                               Anaconda depot circa 1940's             Anaconda depot - March 1915        Grounds looking south toward Smelter

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Armstead - A town in Beaverhead County named for Harry Armstead, a mining man who developed the Silver Fissure mine at Polaris

                                                                                
                                                   Armstead Main Street                                               Armstead Hotel & Post Office - 1910                          

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