The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-10
ANACONDA NEWS.
THE SHOPS
Thirty Carloads of Machinery AL
s ready Shipped Away.
END OF MONTANA UNION
By the Last of July Nothing Will Be Left
! of the Old Shops but the Bare
! Buildings and the
Sidetracks.

IL The diSmantllng OF tne Moi.tohd
Union shops in Anaconda is going ahead
apace. Already so cars of machinery
and material ave been shipped away.
There are about eight carloads left 10
.be loaded up. There is a small force or
amen at work packing up and every
thing movable will have been shipped
away by The end of The monin ana al.
the windows i'm the buildings boarded
up and the pace entirely abandoned.
l. The machinery has been sent to ihs
different shops of the No":nern Pae'hc
railway, more going to Livingston than
any other one point. Part Of the ma
chinery, however, has been sent to the
Como shops in st. Paul. some pieces TO
Butte, and Spokane, Glendive, Brainerd
and Winnipeg have Zach received a
share.
George Lindoff. the master MECHANIC,
and Henry Rainesford, his assistant,
are experimenting the dismantling of
the shops. 1t is work that is not of a
pleasant nature to them, for they have
seen the shops grow from a small be-
ginning to the best equipped shops in
the West. Mr.. Lindoff had been mas
ter cha for 10 years and Mr..
Rainesford has been connected with
them for nine years. The steam ham,
mer, hydraulic presses, lathes, steam
shears and other pieces of large ma
chinery are in a sense their children, n
In loading them on the cars they have
taken the greatest care.
The last Montana Union engine to
leave was No. 100, which was sent to
Brainerd Thursday. Now the round
house is empty save for two b., A. q p.
engines, which are being stored there
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them. The Northern Pacific railway
also has an engine stabbed there in the
d. day time; otherwise the large iron
horse stable is empty, and Mr.. Lindoff
has not lone the customary thing-he
has not locked the stable door after the
horses have gone.
The only thing left in the shop yards
that makes it still look like a railroad
shop is the tender of switch engine No.
$50. That tender has quite a history. II
belonged to al engine of that number
that blew up pm the Butte hill several
years ago.. killing two or three switch
men. There is another historic piece of
machinery in the shops yet that has not
been moved. That is an old narrow
gauge locomotive that was years ago
converted. into a stationary engine. This
engine Is left in much of its old form,
and was probably considered a wonder
in its day. 1t is 26 years old n orig
inally ran on the Utah Central, that was
owned by Brigham Young. The men at
the shops always called it Brig" and
it was one of the pieces of machinery
that every visitor was taken to see. As
compared with one of the mammoth
hog engines used on the B., A. & p. 1t
looks like an Indian cayuse foal.
Everything in the shops that is move
able is being sent away, even the steam
radiators, smoke jacks on top the build
inps electric light nlant and wires.
shafting, stationary engines n boil
ers. When the wreckers get through
there will be nothing left but the bare
buildings. The Livingston papers a few
days ago made mention of the most
curious thing in the way of a locomo-
tive that had ever been seen in the
shops there. 1t was the Shay engine
that used to work on the Butte hill. II
worked with a gearing and shaft thai
turned every wheel on locomotive and
tank. 1t was powerful on hill work, be.
ing able to take up 81 cars, where q
regular switch engine could only handle
seven. 1t was very Slow. however, and
the best speed that could be got out OF
it on its trip from Butte to Livingston
was eight miles an hour. Mr.. Lindof1
saws he does not envy the Livingston
shops their new acquisition, as he says
that engine was wonderfully and fear
fully made. He was made bald-headeC
studying its peculiarities, and Mr.
Rainesford claims it is responsible fol
his premature grayness.
Messrs. Lindoff and Rainesford hav,
not decided what they will do when they
get their work of spoliation completed
1t is not probable, however, that they
will experience any great difficulty il
securing good positions with some o.
the western roads.