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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 Railway. [27] The Great Northern is mentioned in the song "Jack Straw," written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter and originally performed by The Grateful Dead.
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 ...
A nickname given to Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains in the 1970s due to the fact it used former Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington Northern railroad passenger cars used on the famed Empire Builder passenger train still in their former owners paint schemes with CNJ patches on them. Johnson Bar (US)
Great Northern Railway (U.S.), a defunct American transcontinental railroad and major predecessor of the BNSF Railway. Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), a defunct British railway company formed in 1846, namesake of: Great Northern Route, a group of railway services in the South-East and East of England, UK; Thameslink, Southern and Great ...
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]
Great Northern Railway (U.S.), part of the BNSF Railway system; Houston and Great Northern Railroad in Texas, a predecessor of the International – Great Northern Railroad; 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 ...
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.
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.