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8,368 miles (13,467 km) GN's 4-8-4 S-2 "Northern" class locomotive #2584 and nearby sculpture, U.S.–Canada Friendship in Havre, Montana. The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J ...
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 Railway express locomotive (type GNR Stirling 4-2-2). The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took leases of, many local railways, whether ...
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad 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.
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. GN 400 operated during the 2015 and 2016 excursion seasons, including a special for the 2015 Great Northern Convention.
27,000 miles (43,000 km) The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1995. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora ...
The Minnesota Historical Society and the Great Northern Railway provided the following important historical timeline: 1881 - James J. Hill commissioned the Stone Arch Bridge project [ 6 ] 1882 - The initial stockholders meeting was held and Col. Charles C. Smith was assigned as the construction's head engineer
The Historic Belton Chalet Built by the Great Northern Railway in 1910, archived from the original on August 2, 2008; Young, Biloine W., and Eileen McCormack, The Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill, Life in the Shadow of the Empire Builder, James J. Hill, St. Paul, MN, Ramsey County Historical Society, 2010; ISBN 978-0-934294-71-3