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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
2/19/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Northern Pacific
Model:Porter 0-4-0TBuilt As:NP 1 (0-4-0T)
Serial Number:84Order No:
Frame Number:Built:7/1870
Notes:Smith & Porter, 1870, named Minnetonka
Other locos with this serial:  NP 1(0-4-0T)
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NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Title:  NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Description:  Built by Smith and Porter of Pittsburgh in 1870 for the Northern Pacific, this little saddle tank 0-4-0T was nicknamed "Minnetonka" after the large lake in Minnesota.
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 10:04:28 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NP 1(0-4-0T)
Views:  123   Comments: 0
NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Title:  NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Description:  Here is an information sign posted next to the NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka". Unfortunately the skylight in the Union Station display area wiped out the first few lines.
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 10:04:32 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NP 1(0-4-0T)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Title:  NP 0-4-0T #1, "Minnetonka" - Northern Pacific
Description:  The 1870 0-4-0T switcher started out hauling track building supplies for the Northern Pacific as the laid rails westward. Later it served the logging industry through the northwest US. After traveling to various railroad events around the nation, the new owner Burlington Northern finally donated it to the Lake Superior RR Museum where it rests today..
Photo Date:  6/7/2023  Upload Date: 10/2/2023 10:04:37 AM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  NP 1(0-4-0T)
Views:  116   Comments: 0


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