On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:37 PM, Andy Harman wrote:

At 12:19 AM 3/17/2012 +0000, you wrote:

Here is an NP GS gon--really neat

http://muse.museum.montana.edu/rvndb/rvnjpeg_img_rec.php?

objno=RVN11007

No locomotive in sight... car just sitting there halfway up the
ramp. Probably was a posed shot.

No locomotive necessary, Andy - and no locomotive could ever have
climbed that grade in any case. Cars were towed to the top of the
coal dock with a cable (not visible in the photo) operated by a small
stationary stem engine.

Richard Hendrickson