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Izaak Walton Inn
The Izaak Walton Inn is a historic inn in Essex, Montana, USA. It was originally built as the Izaak Walton Hotel in 1939 by the Great Northern Railway as a soup kitchen and lodgings for railway workers. The hotel was also originally envisioned as a potential official southern gateway to Glacier National Park, hence its size, but World War II intervened and that plan never materialized. Today, the inn is served by Essex station, the only request stop on Amtrak's ''Empire Builder'' route. A van from the inn meets both the morning eastbound and the evening westbound Empire Builders to convey passengers between the station and the inn. The Tudor Revival inn is named after Sir Izaak Walton, the English writer and fisherman. Its location, Essex, was originally named Walton.Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman; Aarstad, Arguimbau, Baumler, Porsild, Shovers; Montana Historical Society, 2009; page 132 The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. ...
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Essex, Montana
Essex is an unincorporated community in Flathead County, Montana, United States. Located in the northwestern part of the state, Essex lies along the Hi-Line railroad line, near Glacier National Park, southwest of East Glacier and southeast of West Glacier. Amtrak's ''Empire Builder'' makes a flag stop at Essex station, westbound at 7:41pm and eastbound at 8:55am. The Izaak Walton Inn hotel is close to the Amtrak station platform. Essex also is home to a small BNSF Railway yard. Historically, it was used to provide coal and water for steam trains, and to station helper units used to push freight trains over Marias Pass Marias Pass (elevation ) is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in the western US state of Montana. Lying on the southern border of Glacier National Park, it is traversed by US Highway 2 and by the BNSF Hi-Line Subdivision. The pass is the .... It is still used to base snow-clearing crews in wintertime. Named for a county in England, Essex (original ...
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EMD F45
The EMD F45 is a AAR wheel arrangement#C-C, C-C cowl unit, cowled diesel-electric locomotive built by Electro-Motive Diesel, General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1968 and 1971. Power was provided by an EMD 645E3 20-cylinder (engine), cylinder engine which generated . Design After sponsoring the development of the EMD FP45, FP45 passenger locomotive, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Santa Fe requested a similar freight locomotive from Electro-Motive Diesel, Electro-Motive. Where the FP45 was an EMD SDP45, SDP45 wrapped in a full-width cowl carbody, the new F45 was essentially an EMD SD45, SD45 given the same treatment. Where the Santa Fe requested a full-width carbody for aesthetics, the Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Great Northern saw an opportunity to protect crews from the dangers of winter operation in northern climates. Original owners The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Santa Fe ordered two lots of twenty each, for 1968 delivery. The EMD FP45, F ...
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1939 Establishments In Montana
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National Register Of Historic Places In Flathead County, Montana
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Flathead County, Montana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 148 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks. Current listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana * National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person h ...
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Tourist Attractions In Flathead County, Montana
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Hotel Buildings On The National Register Of Historic Places In Montana
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and En-suite, en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre (with computers, printers, and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, day spa, and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually Room number, numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and Bed and breakfast, B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some boutique, high-end hotels have custom decorated rooms. Some hotels offer meals as part ...
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National Register Of Historic Places In Glacier National Park
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Essex Station (Montana)
Essex station is a stop on Amtrak's ''Empire Builder'' line in Essex, Montana. Essex has a year-round population of less than 50; most passengers are visitors to the nearby historic Izaak Walton Inn located about away. There currently is no station building at Essex, passengers are shuttled directly to the Inn. Essex is a flag stop In public transport, a request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop or station at which buses or trains, respectively, stop only on request; that is, only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off. In this way, st .... That is, the stop is skipped in the event that there are no passengers listed in Amtrak’s digital reservation system to alight or board at the station. Between 1970 and 1985 there were no regular stops at Essex. In late 2010, Amtrak built a concrete platform with embedded heating coils for automatic snow clearance to replace the former asphalt platform, and also added additional lighting and f ...
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United States Department Of The Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington, D.C. It is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States, as well as programs related to historic preservation. About 75% of federal public land is managed by the department, with most of the remainder managed by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. The department was created on March 3, 1849. The department is headed by the secretary of the interior, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current secretary is Deb Haaland. Despite its name, the Department of the Interior has a different ro ...
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties with various title designations. The U.S. Congress created the agency on August 25, 1916, through the National Park Service Organic Act. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., within the main headquarters of the Department of the Interior. The NPS employs approximately 20,000 people in 423 individual units covering over 85 million acres in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories. As of 2019, they had more than 279,000 volunteers. The agency is charged with a dual role of preserving the ecological and historical integrity of the places entrusted to its management while also making them available and accessible for public use and enjoyment. History Yellowstone National Park was created as the first national par ...
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Flathead County, Montana
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Flathead County, Montana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 148 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks. Current listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Montana * National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person h ...
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Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north. It is the fourth-largest state by area, the eighth-least populous state, and the third-least densely populated state. Its state capital is Helena. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges, while the eastern half is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands, with smaller mountain ranges found throughout the state. Montana has no official nickname but several unofficial ones, most notably "Big Sky Country", "The Treasure State", "Land of the Shining Mountains", and " The Last Best Place". The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, mining, and lumber. The health ca ...
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