Northern Pacific No.8

[Dillon rail enthusiast Trinh]

Northern Pacific Railroad had a small 2'6 gauge tie plant in Brainerd, Minnesota. The 0-4-0 fireless was built in 1945 by H.K. Porter, a tie plant is where it processed the Northern Pacific railroad ties before shipping them to where they were needed all around the NP system. The No.8 lasted long in the Burlington Northern era, it last ran in 1982, and now display at Brainerd, Minnesota.
Photo credit:
Jeff Terry

[Mike the Choochoo Nix]

It's at the county fairgrounds, there were two of them, does anyone know what happened to the other one? They used to have some of the cars they pulled as rustic street displays in downtown Brainerd.
M.Nix

[Dillon rail enthusiast Trinh]

It's at the county fairgrounds, there were two of them, does anyone know what happened to the other one? They used to have some of the cars they pulled as rustic street displays in downtown Brainerd.
M.Nix

There's another one?

[Mike the Choochoo Nix]

maybe it was a typo, but I thought they had 2.

[John McNamara]

"Take two, they're small."