Steam Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway
Author: Kenneth R. Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780615387598
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Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780615387598
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Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1452907102
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by
Author: Norman Groves
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780901115744
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Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781634990080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great Northern Railway Through Time takes us on a tour of the American Northwest―the last American frontier―from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington. The Great Northern opened up the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, the dramatic Cascade Mountains of Washington and the Continental Divide at Marias Pass. President James J. Hill intended the Great Northern to be a freight hauling road, but tourists riding on the GN's premier passenger train, The Empire Builder were delighted by the prairie, the farmland, the Big Sky Country, the mountains, and Glacier National Park. The G.N.'s reputation grew. Today, Amtrak's Empire Builder traverses the same territory. The Great Northern Railway Through Time presents photos taken over the course of seventy five years by photographers of the era. The author has provided ample photo captions pointing out features that have changed over the years and features that have stayed the same. The early photos are fresh―never before published. The more recent shots were made by twenty of America's finest rail enthusiast photographers.
Author: Norman Groves
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780901115621
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Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760318478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Travel the rails of the American West in this stunning illustrated history Names for renowned entrpeneur James J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway, the incomparable Empire Builder was jaunched in 1929 by legendary CEO Ralph Budd. Powered by steam until 1947, the Empire Builder charged into the diesel era at full-bore with streamlined EMD E7As trailing Pullman cars from St. Paul to Spokane and generating millions for the railroad. This authoritative and richly illustrated history [Illegible] the Empire Builders through their 1970s demise. Included here are the trains, their various forms of motive power and rolling stock, and their services. wealth of black and white archival images and period color photography depict the Empire Builder along one of the nation's most scenic routes. Also shown are uniforms, dinnerware, terminals and stations, interior views of Pullman and dome cars, period advertisements, and route maps.
Author: Richard Yaremko
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781932804270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is an all-color pictorial of James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway. Formed from a pair of bankrupt startup Minnesota railroads in 1878, Hill and his partners went on to acquire and build, with private money, what would become a railroad empire. First as the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba then, after reorganization, renamed the Great Northern Railway in 1890. Hill's investors would never have to contend with another financial failure. Hill's railroad construction enterprise expanded beyond Minnesota to connect the Duluth-Superior Lakehead to the west coast at Everett, Washington, followed by a north-south link connecting Vancouver, British Columbia, with Seattle, Portland, and California. His business plan of using branch lines and feeder systems routing traffic to his Great Northern Railway from the Great Lakes, Canada, Europe, and Asia would serve his transportation enterprise well. During economic downturns, the Hill interests acquired the Northern Pacific Railway and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. In March 1970 all these corporate entities, along with the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, were finally merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad. During the steam era, Great Northern operated big articulateds that moved iron ore from the Mesabi Iron Range to the Twin Ports and their famous Class O-8 Mikados could be found hustling fast freights across the Dakotas and Montana. The Great Northern also operated a 72-mile-long electrified district through Washington state's Cascade Mountains.With the arrival of the diesel era, the Great Northern owned and experimented with locomotives from nearly every builder"--Amazon.com.
Author: C. W. Guthrie
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781560372769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Glacier National Park and the Great Northern Railway became synonymous in the early 20th century. Original photographs, posters, menus, postcards, and other rare materials support this fascinating pictorial history of the creation and promotion of the park by Great Northern as railroad barons raced west and competed for precious territory to expand their empires.
Author: Norman Groves
Publisher:
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780901115614
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