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 Montana Territory Centennial Locomotive - Columbia Falls, MT Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 48° 22.776 W 114° 10.895
11U E 708684 N 5362331
Montana was declared a territory by the US government on May 26, 1864. In 1964, Columbia Falls, a small city in Flathead County, Montana decided to restore an old locomotive to commemorate the centennial of Montana's becoming a territory.
Waymark Code: WMN1EC
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2014
Views: 4
As a home for the locomotive, a Shay, the city created Depot Park. At the north end of Nucleus Avenue, along Railroad Street, this little park is an ongoing project of the city of Columbia Falls. So far it contains the Shay, an information sign telling of the Shay and its restoration and a small picnic pavilion with a picnic table within. They still have plenty of room to expand as finances and necessity permits.
Depot park was located and named for the fact that Columbia Falls' railway depot once stood here. It once stood about 100 feet north of the sign and the Shay Locomotive.
Remembering the Shay
In 1964, with help from many local volunteers, the 1904 Shay Locomotive was restored for the Centennial celebration of Montana as a territory. This locomotive, which pulled its short train of flatcars loaded with logs from the woods to a sawmill at an average speed of 12 mph, was used for logging in the Swan Valley and north of Half Moon. Today it is the pride of residents and the attraction of tourists here in Depot Park.
From the Plaque
Subject: Territory
Commemoration: Centennial
Date of Founding: May 26, 1864
Date of Commemoration: 1964
Address:
57 Railroad Street
Columbia Falls, MT
59912
Overview Photograph:
Yes
Detail Photograph:
Yes
Web site if available: Not listed
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