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Montana Railroad History - MONTANA POSTCARDS |
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   Great Northern Flyer near Chinook - 1900's Milwaukee Road Bi-Polar - 1910's Northern Pacific at Missoula - 1900's This section contains
postcards of various locations in Montana 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 Absarokee -Alberton - Alhambra - Allard - Amherst - Anaconda - Armstead - Apgar ___________________________________________________________________________ Absarokee-
Alberton- town in Mineral County; named for Albert J. Earling, at one time the president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway
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. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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.
Looking at the Alhambra Hot Springs tank car shows that "Designer Waters" were popular even in the 1920's! Allard -
Amherst -
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
_____________________________________________________________________________________ Apgar - The first "town" after entering Glacier National Park from the south entrance. Eddy's cafe is a landmark and a "hang-out" for locals and tourists alike.
Armstead - A town in Beaverhead County named for Harry Armstead, a mining man who developed the Silver Fissure mine at Polaris
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