Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired (in broad outline, not in specific details) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [26] The song Great Northern by the Western band Riders In The Sky featured on their 2002 album Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad describes a journey along the Great Northern ...
International – Great Northern Railroad in Texas, part of the Union Pacific Railroad; New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern in Louisiana and Mississippi, part of the Canadian National Railway (freight transport) and Amtrak (passenger service) systems; Paris and Great Northern Railroad in Texas, merged into the St. Louis–San Francisco ...
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GN): Midland Railway and Great Northern Railway (MR/GNR), latterly London and North Eastern Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LNER/LMS). This was the UK's biggest joint railway system at 183 miles (295 km) and operated with its own locomotives and rolling stock. The system stretched ...
The International – Great Northern Railroad (I&GN) was a railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Texas. It was created on September 30, 1873, when the International Railroad and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad merged. The railroad was officially incorporated as the International & Great Northern Railroad Company. [1]
Below is a table of information for the Great Northern Railway's steam roster with a symbol, Whyte notation, common name and notes. Included is a breakdown of the Great Northern classes, along with the date of their first construction (when known), builder, and road numbers.
Great Northern bean, a white common bean; Great Northern Brewing Co., an Australian beer manufacturer; Great Northern (country band), led by former Mission Mountain Wood Band member Rob Quist; Great northern diver (Gavia immer), a bird also known as the common loon; Great Northern Elevator, a historic grain elevator in Buffalo, New York
Flying Scotsman at Doncaster Works in July 2003 Doncaster works plate. Doncaster Railway Works is a railway workshop located in Doncaster, England.. Also referred to as The Plant, it was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853, replacing the previous works in Boston and Peterborough.
A 1903 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Spalding (upper centre). Spalding gained its first rail links to Peterborough, Boston and Lincoln in 1848, courtesy of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) who built their main line from London to Doncaster through the town; Spalding railway station opened on 17 October 1848. [2]