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The Great Northern Railway; Great Northern Railway Page; Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 — photographs and short history of one of six streamlined baggage-mail cars built for the Great Northern by the American Car and Foundry Company in 1950. Great Northern Railway route map (1920) Archived September 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railway director. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and the Pacific Northwest in the United States.
John Frank Stevens (April 25, 1853 – June 2, 1943) was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907. He also led the commission of American railway experts to Russia and was later President of the Interallied Technical Board.
He was heavily involved with railroad tycoon James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway. [ 65 ] : 331–2 Industrialists such as Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould became wealthy through railroad ownerships, as large railroad companies such as the Grand Trunk Railway and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company spanned several states.
The Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of the merger of four major railroads: the Great Northern Railway (GN), the Northern Pacific Railway (NP), the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S) and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q).
That honor belongs to the former International and Great Northern Railroad station, which today is home to Generations Credit Union. Opened in 1908, the elaborate building — with its grand ...
March 1, 1970 Burlington Northern is created with the consolidation of the *Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Spokane Portland & Seattle railroads. March 22, 1970: The California Zephyr , on its last run, arrives in Oakland, California , from Chicago; the train name will soon be resurrected by Amtrak on a train ...
The exhibition is free, and author Richard Furness will be giving a talk at the centre on local railway history and the railway posters on Saturday 11 January between 14:00 and 15:00 GMT.