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Great Northern Layout.
Great Northern Railway - Kalispell Division.
Belton.
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Westward view of Belton
on lower level
below Shelby on upper level.

Eastward Second Class
Livestock Train XLE
"Extra Livestock East"
with GN 2044 class R-2
2-8-8-2 steam locomotive,
20 loaded stock cars
and 50 foot drovers caboose
arrives from Columbia Falls
on main.

Train XLE GN 2044 class R-2 GN-Hillyard "articulated"
2-8-8-2 freight
oil burning steam locomotive
has Belpaire fire box,
front mounted dual air pumps
and enclosed cab.

Train XLE GN 2044
was most powerful locomotive
in world when it was built
by GN at Hillyard in 1929.
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Belton Diagram.
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Eastward view of Belton
on lower level
below Shelby on upper level.

Train XLE leaves to Essex
on main.

Glacier National Park
tourist season cars
for first class trains
on track behind Train XLE.

See box for Belton
train instruction cards,
box for sorting car waybills
and track boxes for car waybills
on Columbia Falls page.

See intercom
for Belton station operator
on Columbia Falls page.