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Montanal Railroad Alias: the Jawbone by Don Baker Hard Cover Notice front cover
The Montanal Railroad Alias: the Jawbone by Don Baker
Hard Cover NOTICE the front cover damage - lowere edge
96 pages
Copyright 1990
CONTENTS
The Jawbone (author unknown) 5
Route Maps 6 & 7
Time Tables 8 & 9
Acknowledgements & Thanks 10
Preface 11
Introduction 13
Chapter I, Castle, Montana 15
Chapter II, The Contracts 23
Chapter III, An Operating Railroad 29
Chapter IV, The Extension 35
Chapter V, Operational Problems 39
Chapter VI, Passenger Stories 47
Chapter VII, Rumors 51
Chapter VIII, Closing the Sale 55
Chapter IX, Reminiscing 75
Chapter X, The Spartan Railroad 81
Index 95
ON THE BACK COVER
The Montana Railroad, succeeded by the Milwaukee Railroad, served central Montana for nearly a century, was one of the few railroads that operated with all three forms of power: steam, electric and diesel. It connected with the Great Northern Railway at Lewistown, and the Northern Pacific at Lombard.
Nicknamed the Jawbone, because suppliers were "jawboned" for credit, the line had a difficult birth, many years of tenuous existence, some years of relative prosperity, and then a long, slow, lingering decline and demise. It operated in mountainous terrain, in a part of the country where winter weather can be brutally harsh. That it survived for almost a century seems, in retrospect, almost a miracle.
This is the story of that railroad.
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