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Old Photo 11-5-13

| November 5, 2013 11:08 AM

ÒSix SpotÓ Charles Bovey, Great Falls wheat farmer, state senator from Cascade County and the man behind the restoration of Virginia City and Nevada City, uses a chain fall while disassembling the drive mechanism of the J. Neils ÒSix Spot.Ó Bovey was here last summer to prepare the ÒSix SpotÓ for moving after purchasing the old Shay locomotive. He plans to move it to Nevada City, where it will become a showpiece as part of the Alder Gulch Short Line Railroad at the Nevada City depot. Photo from the Oct. 24, 1963, files of The Western News.