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| Title | Northern Pacific roundhouse, Lester, ca. 1900 |
| Photographer | Longworth, George |
| Date | ca. 1900 |
| Caption | The original Northern Pacific Railway roundhouse at Lester, Washington, contained six locomotive stalls and was replaced in the early 20th century to accommodate larger locomotives. Note the "armstrong" turntable in the foreground. Workers had to push the turntable. A new, larger motorized turntable is shown to the right waiting for installation. |
| Subjects | Railroad roundhouses--Washington (State)--Lester; Railroad locomotives--Washington (State)--Lester; Northern Pacific Railway Company |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Lester |
| Digital Collection | Northwest Railway Museum Image Collection |
| Accession Number | 97.07.51 |
| Ordering Information | To inquire about reproductions or permissions, please contact the Northwest Railway Museum at info@trainmuseum.org or write to PO Box 459, Snoqualmie, WA 98065. |
| Repository | Northwest Railway Museum |
| Repository Collection | George Longworth Collection |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 18.6 x 12 cm |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
