Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 2510, Class P-2, with passenger train just off bridge, undated.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 2510, Class P-2, with passenger train, undated.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 2510 with passenger train at station platform, Class P-2, at Whitefish, Montana, 1945.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive 2510, Class P-2, 1936. Photo by Ron Nixon.

Great Northern steam locomotive 2510 at Superior, Wisconsin on June 19, 1960. Class P-2. Norm Priebe Collection. Photograph by Vierkant. Black & white negative, 2 7/8 inch x 4 3/4 inch. Other Subject classes: Steam locomotive

Great Northern steam locomotive 2510 at Superior, Wisconsin on May 17, 1959. Class P-2. Norm Priebe Collection. Photograph by Vierkant. Black & white negative, 2 7/8 inch x 4 3/4 inch. Other Subject classes: Steam locomotive

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 2508 at Whitefish, Montana, 1940.

Great Northern steam locomotive 2507 at Willmar, Minnesota on October 7, 1960. Class P-2. Photograph by Norm Priebe. Black & white negative, 2 1/4 inch x 3 1/4 inch. Other subject classes: Steam Locomotive

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 2507 at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1948.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive 2507 at Mukilteo, Washington in 1947. Steam Locomotive 2507, a Class P-2, wreck on side in Puget Sound. Notes by photographer Hal Will: 'Great Northern train Number 27, the Fast Mail, hit a landslide near Picnic Point, south of Mukilteo, Washington, in the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1948. The engineer, Al White, and fireman, W.P. "Bill" Murphy, were both injured when a slide rolled the engine, tender and a baggage car off the track. Murphy lost a thumb when it got caught in a valve handle as Number 2507 went over the rock sea wall into Puget Sound. The Great Northern yard bull (railroad cop) tried to prevent picture taking, but I shot this one and ran fast enough to save my 4x5 camera, and my skin. [HW]'. Bill Murphy states it was the tender footplate that sliced off the tip of his thumb . Other subject classes: Stm Loco