Category:Minnetonka (locomotive)

English: The Minnetonka was one of the first locomotives owned by the Northern Pacific Railway. It was one of four construction locomotives built in 1870 by en:H. K. Porter, Inc of Philadelphia for the railway. It was first put to work between en:Brainerd, Minnesota and en:Duluth, Minnesota. The locomotive was sent overland to San Francisco and then by ship to en:Kalama, Washington in 1871. The Minnetonka then worked between Kalama and en:Tacoma, Washington. In 1886, the locomotive was sold and it was used in logging operations until 1928, having survived a forest fire on the middle fork of the en:Hoquiam River in Washington state in 1902. The Minnetonka had been forgotten and abandoned in the timber country near Hoquiam until 1933. After it was re-discovered, the Northern Pacific restored it to working condition and first displayed its old locomotive at the 1933 en:Century of Progress in Chicago. Today the Minnetonka is on exhibit at the en:Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth.