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Tony Held's Collection
 
4/20/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Great Northern
Model:BLW 4-8-2Built As:GN 2523 (4-8-2)
Serial Number:57343Order No:
Frame Number:29X28 cylinders, 73" driversBuilt:10/1923
Notes:Blt by BLW Class P-2, retired 04/58, donated 09/65
Other locos with this serial:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
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History Of The 2523
Title:  History Of The 2523
Description:  This display sign mounted on the 2523's tender tells her story to visitors of the Kandiyohi County Historical Museum.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 6:34:53 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
Vanderbuilt Tender
Title:  Vanderbuilt Tender
Description:  A back end view of GN 2523's Vanderbuilt tender, one of the most distinctive steam engine tenders in the world.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 6:34:14 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Cool Cab
Title:  Cool Cab
Description:  G.N. 2523's cab. Ah for the days when visitors could readily visit the cabs of preserved steam engines. Those darn vandals had to spoil things for everybody.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/1/2018 10:05:27 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  162   Comments: 0
Sound Advice
Title:  Sound Advice
Description:  Do not climb on the engine? Sound advice, man.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 6:05:38 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Stately Front
Title:  Stately Front
Description:  The front of G.N. 2523 is quite stately, as only the face of a steam engine can be.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/1/2018 10:04:58 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Glorious Great Northern
Title:  Glorious Great Northern
Description:  The Kandiyohi County Museum is the home of G.N. Mountain 2523. You know, G.N. sure had a flair for painting steam engines.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/1/2018 9:54:14 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
At Last!
Title:  At Last!
Description:  I had not seen a preserved Great Northern steam engine before. Sure I've seen the William Crooks up in Duluth, but the Crooks was for a predecessor road. At last, I have finally seen and photographed a Great Northern steamer: Mountain 2523, on display in Willmar for over fifty years.
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/1/2018 9:53:47 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
Hallowed Logo
Title:  Hallowed Logo
Description:  Need I say more, fellow railfans?
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/1/2018 10:06:54 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  174   Comments: 0
Where Did That Come From?
Title:  Where Did That Come From?
Description:  A water spout is on display next to 2523's tender. I wonder where the spout came from?
Photo Date:  7/1/2018  Upload Date: 7/4/2018 6:06:19 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
Andy In The Engineer's Seat
Title:  Andy In The Engineer's Seat
Description:  My buddy Andy poses in the engineer's seat aboard GN 2523 thanks to the engine being open the day we visited.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:22:35 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Imposing Front
Title:  Imposing Front
Description:  The front of GN 2526 sure is imposing.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:17:55 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  74   Comments: 0
Engine Number And Markings
Title:  Engine Number And Markings
Description:  Detail shot of the engine number and other markings below the right side of GN 2523's cab.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:20:01 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  71   Comments: 0
Christmas In June
Title:  Christmas In June
Description:  Great Northern 2523 still sports her Christmas lights on a warm and sunny June afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:18:33 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
Classic Logo
Title:  Classic Logo
Description:  The Great Northern logo on the right side of GN 2523's tender.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:20:18 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  65   Comments: 0
How She Got Here
Title:  How She Got Here
Description:  This interpretive sign on the right side of GN 2523's tenders relates how she got from the Willmar roundhouse to her current display site.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:21:35 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  89   Comments: 0
Tony In The Engineer's Seat
Title:  Tony In The Engineer's Seat
Description:  GN 2523's cab was open depsite the Kandiyohi County Museum being closed, which offered me and my friend Andy chances to photograph each other in the cab. Here I am in the hallowed engineer's seat, playing out a childhood daydream of growing up to be an engineer.
Photo Date:  6/12/2022  Upload Date: 6/17/2022 10:22:20 PM
Location:  Willmar, MN
Author:  Tony Held
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  GN 2523(4-8-2)
Views:  79   Comments: 0


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