WINNING RAFFLE TICKETS, June 28, 2025
Our raffle drawing was held June 28, 2025, immediately at the close of Farmers Market in downtown Missoula. Here are the winning ticket numbers:
315118 - HO model engine
315158 - Brio set
315177 - Milwaukee Road vintage calendar print
315185 - Stan Hughes print
315166 - Great Burn basket
315129 - Double Front gift certificate
315170 - Farmers Market gift certificate
315137 - 1356 T shirt
315181 - Brave Engine book
315112 - Brave Engine book
The winners have been emailed or called, so if you see your number here and you haven't heard from us, check your email! Congratulations, and thank you for your support of Northern Pacific 1356.
1. Vintage Pacific Fast Mail HO Scale S-4 model in brass: Northern Pacific 1367, sister engine to 1356. Donated by Neil Thorson. As is or we can renumber if for you. $350 value.
2. Brio Cargo Railway Set. This set includes two trains, a battery-powered engine, 3 cranes, a truck, cargo, a bridge, rocks, a crossing signal, wood tracks, more. $165 value.
3. Original June, 1963 American Oil Company calendar page featuring a Ron V. Nixon photo of a Milwaukee Road west bound freight emerging from Eagle Nest Tunnel in the Belt Mountains. Image (shown above) is 16 X 12 inches; complete calendar is 16 X 30 inches. Framable vintage collectible. $100 value
4. Signed, numbered Stan Hughes print of Engine 1356. 14 X 16 framed. Donated by Mitchell Dahl. $100 value
Other prizes include:
5. From Great Burn Brewing: Bucket hat, pint glass, folf disc, growler, sticker, $20 gift card. $100 value. Great Burn Brewing is connected to the 1356 through the 1910 fire. Visit their Facebook page here.
6. Double Front Cafe gift certificate, $40. The Double Front used to host The 1356 Club; the cafe’s founder, Gene Herndon, was a fireman on the NP. It’s a Missoula institution, with some of the best chicken you’ll get anywhere. Here they are on Facebook.
7. Farmer’s Market gift certificate, $25. At Market Plaza, Saturdays and Tuesdays throughout the summer, the end of North Higgins where you come to visit 1356.
8. Northern Pacific 1356 T shirt, $20
9, 10. Children’s book, The 1356: A Brave Engine (two prizes), $20 each.
Ticket sales close June 28, 2025, at 12:00 MST, with drawing held at Farmers Market on the same date. A total of 1000 tickets are available for purchase. You need not be present to win. Buyers who are not in Montana are responsible for following their state laws regarding raffles.
This is a charitable raffle to benefit Friends of the 1356, Post Office Box 1356, Missoula, MT, 59806, a Montana based, 501c3 non profit organization.