On March 15, 1969, GN F7A 309C leads an F7B, a GP9 and another F7A with more then 200 ore cars, totaling around 15,000 net tons of taconite pellets into Minneapolis. The Great Northern usuall... (more)

On April 20, 1970 Great Northern SD9 584 is working a long transfer drag through Minneapolis. It's more than two months into the Burlington Northern merger and the SD9 has yet to be renumbered... (more)

Great Northern F3A 351A leads the three car #6 the Seattle-Spokane Cascadian at Berne, Washington on June 2, 1958. Photo by Montague Powell, from my collection.

GN 1720 sits dead in Northtown Yard awaiting its fate. Built in 1959 for the Colorado and Southern, 1720 is by far the oldest unit in the deadline.

A quiet Sunday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails in front of the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot. This depot happens to be James J. Hil... (more)

Visiting from Duluth is the rare EMD NW-5 from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. GN 192 was built in December 1946 but looks practically brand new. This was LSRM's 4th appearance at Train Days... (more)

GN, Great Northern NW5 192, at Duluth, Minnesota. October 1, 2004, Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Pulled by GN 400, a North Shore Scenic Railroad excursion train passes downtown Duluth, MN as it departs for points north.

Lots going on in this Minot North Dakota scene on July 11th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

The Great Northern comes to life on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ry. based in Osceola, WI, featuring a restored 1916 era Soo Line depot on the former Soo mainline between Minneapolis & Sault Ste... (more)

The 3018 one of Great Northern GP35s rests between assignments at Minneapolis on July 28, 1965. The major identifying feature between the first and second GP35 orders was that the first group was... (more)

GN 192 is on display for Train Days at the St. Paul Union Depot. The engine is from the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth.

Great Northern City. Great Northern class 717 Desiro City train no. 014 (Siemens, 2018) is seen arriving at Old Street station on the Northern City Line. The line was built by th... (more)