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Great Northern Railway Historical Society; The Great Northern Empire — Then and Now; 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.
"The Great Northern Railway Company: All-Time Locomotive Roster, 1861–1970". Railroad History. ... Boston, Mass.: Railway and Locomotive Historical Society: 20 ...
The Great Northern Railway consistently resisted this in Parliament, but finally decided that it was only a matter of time before the GER got what it wanted. The outcome was a joint parliamentary bill, which obtained royal assent on 3 July as the Great Northern and Great Eastern Railway Companies Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. cx). Existing GNR ...
The Michigan train wreck was the worst rail disaster in both North Dakota and Great Northern Railway history. [2] It happened on August 9, 1945, at Michigan, North Dakota, and involved Great Northern's premier train, the Empire Builder.
The Great Northern Buelow Wreck occurred on March 7, 1966, when two Great Northern Railway trains, an eastbound Empire Builder passenger train and a westbound Western Star mail and passenger train, collided near Chester, Montana. [4] Two were killed, 77 were injured, and 29 were hospitalized. [3] [1]: 1
In 2015 the Minnesota Transportation Museum and the Great Northern Railway Historical Society signed a two-year operating lease to have the 400 operate on MTM's Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway in Osceola, WI. [10] GN 400 operated during the 2015 and 2016 excursion seasons, including a special for the 2015 Great Northern Convention.
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.
At one of the lowest points in the Great Depression, January 1, 1932, Ralph Budd left the Great Northern to become president of the Burlington.While leading the Burlington, he met Edward G. Budd (distant relation), who had formed the Budd Company in 1912, and had recently begun to apply his automobile body construction knowledge to build railroad passenger equipment in a new venture using ...