Historical Photos

AERONAUTICS

Aviation Career Education | image 2
Jeanne Lesnik - master search trainer
Lincoln airport
Montain Search Pilot Clinic - 1995
Nav-Aids - Ennis NDB | Lookout beacon
Schafer Meadows Fly-In - clearing runway rock
West Yellowstone airport
Winter Survival Clinic shelter | chilly participants

Delta airplane at Helena Region Regional Airport
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BEARTOOTH PASS

Construction activities | image 2
Beartooth Pass - Scenic View | image 2 | image 3
1932 Construction - NPS image
Historical image
Snow levels on the Beartooth Highway

Beartooth Mud Slides - May 2005
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Clearing Beartooth Pass
Photos/Videos from 2011 clearing
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BRIDGE

Modern Highway Bridge
Another Bridge

CONSTRUCTION

Maintenance crew placing a asphalt mix overlay
Road Construction Sign
Construction on 6th Ave. in Helena | image 2
Loader on 6th Ave. in Helena
Maintenance crew placing chip and seal aggregate | image 2

HISTORICAL

Anaconda Copper Mining Co. smelter at sunset 1903
Billings Laurel Roadway
Boulder Hill
Bridge over Missouri River
Broadway and 2nd, Billings
Butte Airport
Capitol Interchange
Car stuck in muddy road
County road near Rudyard
Covered Wagon Crossing River
Going to the Sun Highway
Going to the Sun Highway - Heavens Peak
Historic Montana Dept of Transportation Building
I-15 Railroad Crossing
I-15 Construction (Helena)
Kings Hill - Car stuck in mud 1933
Kings Hill - Snow plow - Apr. 1933
Klein-Billings Roadway 1920s
Missouri River Caynon - U.S. HWY 91
Montana 3 near Noxon 1938
Montana Capital Building | image 2
Old Car driving through snow 3 miles south of Browning
Old Collapsed Bridge | image 2
Old snow blower in operation | image 2 | image 3
Past MDT administrators
Paving in front of Northern Pacific Depot, Glendive 1922
Red Lodge - Cooke City Hwy
Road between Fairfield and Bole - Dec. 1931
Road Construction Sign | image 2 | image 3 | image 4
Sign at junction on MT Federal Aid System 1936
Snow plow west of Alberton - Feb. 1943
Soft spots US10 near Taft 1938
Striper West of Havre
Surveying the Skalkaho 1921
Surveying the Skalkaho on Mule Oct. 1922
Surveyor | image 2
Surveying in winter
University Hall University of Montana

Billings Airport Road (large high-resolution images)
1940s image 1 | image 2
First airport road - early 30s
Road to airport - 1936 | image 2

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LIVINGSTON STORM (1999)

Snow Storm in Livingston | image 2 | image 3 | image 4 | image 5

MACDONALD PASS PROJECT

Curshing Aggregate for Plant Mix
Bituminous Mixing Plan Dust Collector | image 2
Hot Mix Plant and Crusher | image 2 | image 3
Front-end Loader getting Aggregate for Hot Plant Mix
Loadout for Hot Plant Mix
Reconstruction of US Highway 12 going up MacDonald Pass

MAPS FROM THE PAST

1935 Highways Map front
1936 Highways Map cover | back
1937 Highways Map cover | back
1938 Highways Map cover
1939 Highways Map cover
1940 Highways Map cover
1941 Highways Map cover
1942 Highways Map cover
1948 Highways Map front
1949 Highways Map front
1950 Highways Map front
1951 Highways Map front
1952 Highways Map front
1953 Highways Map front
1954 Highways Map front
1955 Highways Map front

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MISCELLANEOUS

Current MDT Headquarters Building
Dave Manning Memorial Building Sign
Snow Blower on road outside of Baker MT
Snow Blower on Lookout Pass
Road Closed Sign
Rock Slide on US 93, Nov 1995 | image 2 - courtesy Daily Interlake, Kalispell

SIEBEN FLATS PROJECT

Aggregate Gradation Testing
Compaction of Hot Plant Mix | image 2
Crushing of Aggregate for Recycle Plant Mix
Department Survey Bus
Front-end Loader Filling Grizzley
Front-end Loader Stockpiling Aggregate
Lime Silo and Recycled Material Grizzley
Paver Laying Hot Recycled Plant Mix | image 2
Paver With Pickup Attachment
Project Signs not in use
Reconstruction of I-15 North through Seiben Flats
Windrow of Recycled Bituminous Material

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