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Montana Railroad Co (83779)

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Montana Railroad Co  (83779)
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Cancelled and assigned 1 share cert #1 issued to Milton S. Gunn. Signed May 8, 1895. Raised company seal. Listed in Cox. Montana Railroad was built and operated between the towns of Lombard and Lewistown, MT connecting with the national railway network via a connection with the Northern Pacific Railway at Lombard. Constructed between 1895 and 1903, and operated independently until 1908, when taken over by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Railroad was the brainchild of Richard A. Harlow, a Helena, Montana attorney and entrepreneur, who envisioned the construction of a railway eastward from Helena to serve the mining and agricultural regions of central Montana. Montana Midland began construction in 1893 failing due to the onset of the Panic of 1893. In 1894 Harlow organized the Montana Railroad beginning construction in 1895. Railroad reached Leadborough, at the southern end of the mining district, in Nov., 1896. In 1899 railway construction crews began working eastward down the Musselshell River valley. Montana Railroad was completed to new town of Harlowton (named after Harlow) in 1900. Traveling northward they reached Lewistown in 1903. 1908, Montana Railroad was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. Lombard-Harlowton segment of Montana Railroad became a part of this new Milwaukee line. Work to electrify the line began in 1914. The Montana's Harlowton-Lewistown route became a secondary main line for the Milwaukee. Prag collection. State: Montana City: Date: 1895