This former Santa Fe F45 is now repainted in Great Northern "Big Sky Blue" and repurposed as a luxury cabin at the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, MT. The inn itself was built in 1939 by the ... (more)
The cabs of three locomotives await final disposal after they were cut up at NRE Silvis. NRE has been scrapping locomotives lately as they prepare to close their facility in Silvis.
GN 24 ft. caboose no. X592 basks in the gray skies of western Washington on April Fools Day, 1979. I have not been able to find any more info on the caboose, perhaps someone might know what happen... (more)
GN 2505 sits in the snow outside the Harrison St. roundhouse in Minneapolis in early January 1970. In about 60 days it will become a part of Burlington Northern, renumbered as BN 5405.
Near the end of a sunny below zero early January day in 1970, GN U25B (later version with a double windshield) catches the last rays of sunshine as well as the sunset of its career on Great Northe... (more)