North Pacific Coast Rail Road (narrow-gauge) Engine #21 at Howards Station (Occidental). Overexposed print showing North Pacific Coat Railroad Engine #21. in foreground with Howard Train Station on other side of train. Photo shows engine, a boiler car, a freight car, and a passenger car. Victorian homes in background. Engine #21 was an experimental train engine built in the Sausalito shops by NPC in 1901. It was the first water-tubed boiler, oil-burning, cab-in-front locomotive in the United States.
Sources: The Northwestern Pacific Railroad, p.g. 29. Coyright 1964 by Fred A. Stindt and Guy L. Dunscomb. Library of Congress #64-24033
Just Before Yesterday, pg. 90 by Lorna Dracke, Copyright 1982
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