Before cosmetic restoration and an indoor home in the Milwaukee Road Sioux City roundhouse, GN 1355 Pacific was parked outside in downtown Sioux City.

After a very successful two-year display period at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, a replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is being shipped by truck to its next viewing location in Antioch... (more)

GN 274 poses in the afternoon light at Garibaldi with the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad's evening dinner train.

Rocky lives!
Rusty and surrounded by faded Big Sky Blue, the famous mascot of Great Northern still survives on GN 50-foot boxcar No. 319499 sitting at the former GN yard in Sandpoint, I... (more)

Nearly a half a century after the demise of the Great Northern Railway, GN 50-foot boxcar No. 319499 sits at the former GN yard in Sandpoint, Idaho, on October 12, 2017. Even though it is rusty an... (more)

Great Northern 599 sits quietly in the snow outside the rail depot in Skykomish, WA This unit has been in the midst of a very long and drawn out cosmetic restoration process. It was painted over a... (more)

A close up of the rear of GN observation 1196, named City of Spokane brightens up a gray July day in Seattle at King St. Station. The car had come in as a charter on an Amtrak train. Note the BN o... (more)

GN observation 1196, named City of Spokane brightens up a gray July day in Seattle at King St. Station. The car had come in as a charter on an Amtrak train.

GN SD9 no. 581 gets some attention at the combined washing and fueling rack in Superior, WI in late summer 1970. By now the unit is BN, but there is no indication on the unit.

Welcome to Havre, MT........ Along the Former GN's now BNSF's Hi Line across Montana is a town by the name of Havre, Home to a BNSF Yard and a Shop, along with the Amtrak station that the east and... (more)

This cab end view of GN NW3 was taken at Whitefish, MT in August 1994 when the paint was freshly applied on the unit. My last visit showed a much more faded unit with a herald missing. The unit is... (more)

Great Northern NW5 No. 192 pauses during switching at Duluth, Minnesota, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on June 10, 2016. Only 13 rare EMD NW5s were built between December 1946 and February ... (more)

Here's another shot of the Great Northern power awaiting their next assignment from the Kellogg Boulevard bridge. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Three months before the BN merger, GN class GP20 no. 2000 shows off its Big Sky Blue colors in the snow at the GN Harrison St. roundhouse. This was the first unit of two groups of GP20s delivered ... (more)

GN 181, a rare NW3 locomotive now lives on displayed at Whitefish, MT. GN owned 10 of the 13 built. This one was built in March 1942, rated at 1000 hp and could be found in switching, local freigh... (more)