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By Angela Cotey | October 15, 2014

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Pacific 2119 leads Northern Pacific train 288 east in Silver Bow Canyon, a dozen miles west of Butte, Mont., in the late 1940s.
Linn H. Westcott photo

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