Historical Museum at Fort Missoula (original) (raw)

Give to the Save Our Train fund : Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our Match this July! Donations are still welcome and will help restore this wonderful piece of history!
Volunteer! We will be hosting volunteer workdays on Saturdays starting at 10am throughout the summer. Check out our Facebook page for more information or email anacondalumber.7@gmail.com

Oldest known surviving Willamette Locomotive in the Nation.
Spent its life in our mountains and valleys, never traveling more than 80 miles from Missoula.
Hollywood Movie Star when it played a leading role in the 1954 Timber Jack!
Only Willamette originally built to burn coal as a fuel.
The ONLY locomotive left from Western Lumber Co.
One of two surviving locomotives from Anaconda Lumber Co. and the only one in Montana.
This Engine represents a once bustling industry that shaped Missoula and Western Montana.
Check out a more in-depth look at Engine #7’s history here.

Work Party Reports
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- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8,9, & 10
Tune into our YOUTUBE channel for “What’s That Thingy?” Episodes.
Heron Lumber Co Article by Tall Timber Short Lines: Published 2005
Brief History of Engine #7
NBC Montana News Story
KPAX SAVE THE TRAIN STORY!
Missoulian Clipping from 1992
A Message from the Director
Willamette Iron & Steel Engineering Plans
The Lumberman’s Library Car Article by Tall Timber Short Lines: Published 2003
- Engine #7 very likely pulled the Lumberman’s Library Car to its Logging Camp Locations throughout Western Montana.
- This Library car it the ONLY one to have ever existed in the Nation
Join the Steam Engine #7 Facebook Group
See Engine #7 TURN OVER FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1954! And another view!
Missoulian Article: March,2019
Missouliian Article: April, 2019
This restoration project is funded in part through the Cultural and Aesthetics Projects Trust Fund that was created through coal severance taxes paid based on coal mining in Montana.
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