P a g e 8 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r per and tin shop graces a corner room, thus enabling the covering and burnishing of the engines. The boiler shop is the next in size, being devoted to the building and rebuilding of boilers and their accompaniments, G. M. Wilson is the foreman, while the blacksmith shops are under the supervision of James Towers. In these departments the boilers of locomotives are overhauled and repaired preparatory to turning them over to the force in the machine shops, to which they are readily conveyed by means of the complete system of tracks in use. The blacksmith shops also supply such iron and steelwork as may be required in all other departments, and for which its equipments are intended. The car and paint shops occupy a building 67x152 feet, under the foremanship of Millard Lashorn. In the car department all repair work for the Rocky Mountain, Montana and Yellowstone divisions of the road is done. It is fully equipped with all modern machinery for entirely rebuilding the woodwork for coaches, cabooses and cars, having during the past year turned out on an average of 600 cars of heavy and light repair work. In addition to this work the cabs, tanks and pilots of locomotives, undergoing repairs, are put in condition, or rebuilt when necessary. Boiler Department Northern Pacific Shops Carpenter Department Northern Pacific Shops The motive power for this immense plant is supplied by a handsome Atlas-Corliss engine of fifty horse power, supplied by steam from three large boilers, 54 inches in diameter and 14 feet in length. The exhaust steam from the engine is utilized in heating the entire group of buildings, which are brightly illuminated with arc and incandescent lights furnished by the electric light company. The roundhouse is a semi-circular building provided with fifteen stalls for the accommodation of engines in from a division run. Tracks from these stalls converge to a turntable, situated east of the roundhouse. Its capacity is not commensurate with the demand, while several other tracks have been laid adjoining the building for the temporary accommodation of engines. -Read More in Next Month’s Issue! Accessed via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Get your Ghost Towns of Montana Map! The size of the map is 11 x 17. It features 40 towns with a map on the front side and a little history and specific directions to the towns on the back side. The map is laminated. Send a check or money order in the amount of $20 (S & H included) to Ghost Towns & History of Montana, 99 Lampert Ranch DR, Anaconda, MT 59711. U.S. orders only, please) Or, paypal here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UL6TZCWUUTCWN
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