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    Francis Nelson Blount (May 21, 1918 – August 31, 1967) was an American businessman, railroad enthusiast and president and founder of Blount Seafood Corporation...
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    and 1961. In 1962, No. 2124's flue time expired, and it was sold to F. Nelson Blount, who added it to his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection. As of 2024, No....
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  • 1964 when F. Nelson Blount, who also operated a museum of steam locomotives, called Steamtown, USA, in North Walpole, New Hampshire. Blount convinced...
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    NHS were originally collected by F. Nelson Blount, a millionaire seafood processor from New England. In 1964, Blount established a non-profit organization...
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    was purchased by New England millionaire F. Nelson Blount for his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection. After Blount died in 1967, No. 3713 was loaned to the...
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  • in Warren, Rhode Island. Blount Seafood Corporation was founded by F. Nelson Blount, whose family was involved in the shellfish industry since the 1880s...
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  • retired from revenue service, the locomotive was purchased in 1965 by F. Nelson Blount for excursion trains at his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection. The locomotive...
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    1983. The museum was founded by millionaire seafood industrialist F. Nelson Blount. The non-profit Steamtown Foundation took over operations following...
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    1293 was purchased by F. Nelson Blount, and it was moved to his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection in Bellows Falls, Vermont. Blount would also acquire fellow...
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  • Eric Blount (born 1970), American football player James Blount (disambiguation) F. Nelson Blount, (1918–1967), President and founder of Blount Seafood...
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    kilometres (2 million miles) in active service. In the early 1960s, F. Nelson Blount wanted to expand his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection, and one of the locomotives...
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    commuter service. Following retirement in June 1959, No. 47 was sold to F. Nelson Blount for $2,000, and it became a part of his collection of steam locomotives...
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    chemical plant. In 1965, it was repurchased by New England millionaire F. Nelson Blount for his locomotive collection at Steamtown, U.S.A. in Bellows Falls...
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    6039 became one of the very first steam locomotives to be owned by F. Nelson Blount, and it subsequently became part of his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection...
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    New York businessman, who, in turn, sold it the following year to F. Nelson Blount, the founder of Steamtown, U.S.A.. As of 2024, No. 790 is on static...
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    USS Monadnock in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1961, F. Nelson Blount established the Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad, a local steam-powered...
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    purchased by New England seafood magnate and steam locomotive collector F. Nelson Blount and moved to North Walpole, New Hampshire, in the United States. No...
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    in 1959 and placed into storage. In 1965, No. 759 was purchased by F. Nelson Blount for display in his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection in North Walpole, New...
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    fairly good condition as it was rescued by New England millionaire F. Nelson Blount for his private collection of steam locomotives at Steamtown, U.S.A...
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    football legend F. Nelson Blount, founder of the Blount Seafood Corporation and steam locomotive collector Luther Blount, started Blount Marine, American...
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    Company retired No. 216 in 1956. A New England seafood processor, F. Nelson Blount, bought the locomotive for his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection in 1957...
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    Pennsylvania sometime by 1949. In 1966, the locomotive was donated to F. Nelson Blount and Steamtown, U.S.A. in Bellows Falls, Vermont in 1966. A sister 0-6-0ST...
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  • and Sunapee were used by F. Nelson Blount and his Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad, a tourist excursion railroad. Blount approached Pinsly when...
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    smokebox, and it was given a nameplate with the lettering “F. Nelson Blount” to pay tribute to Blount's passing two years prior. No. 1246 was used by the GMRR...
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    along with a 4-6-6-4 Challenger and an office car. Steamtown founder F. Nelson Blount, faced with space limitations at Steamtown in 1962, could only accept...
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  • Blount was born on September 5, 1916, in Warren, Rhode Island, to Willis Eugene Blount and Ruth Gibbs Blount. Luther had one brother F. Nelson Blount...
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    the CN's Turcot roundhouse until being sold the following year to F. Nelson Blount for his Steamtown USA collection. It eventually wound up with most...
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    locomotive enthusiast F. Nelson Blount purchased No. 2317 and moved it to Bellows Falls, Vermont, where the locomotive was added to Blount's Steamtown, U.S.A...
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  • firm of Charbonnages du Hasard, operating until 1960. Purchased by F. Nelson Blount, and brought to the U.S. in 1964, the engine was given the name "Prince...
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    operations at Edaville until the railroad was purchased in 1957 by F. Nelson Blount, a railroad enthusiast who had made a fortune in the seafood processing...
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