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	Great Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Great Northern Railway Historical Society Railroad historical society dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Great Northern (GN) Railway.
		The Great Falls Model Railroad Club This club operates a large HO scale layout and is active in railfan photography and the collection, preservation, and display of railroad/train memoriabilia and historic artifacts.
		Northern Great Plains Initiative for Rural Development A network of businesses, institutions, and organizations dedicated to building a strong economic and healthy ecological future for the Northern Great Plains.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Great_Northern_Railroad.html (415 words)

	Great Northern Railway (US) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bridge ceased to be used as a railroad bridge in 1978.
		In 1970 the GN became part of the Burlington Northern Railroad in a merger.
		A Great Northern train pauses for the photographer four miles west of Minot, North Dakota in 1914.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Northern_Railroad (209 words)

	Burlington Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Burlington Northern Railroad ((AAR reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad operating between 1970 and 1995.
		The Burlington Northern was the product of a 1970 merger comprising the Great Northern Railroad; the Northern Pacific Railway; the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad; and the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway.
		In 1995, the Burlington Northern merged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form the new Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, possibly the largest railroad in the United States by track mileage.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/b/bu/burlington_northern_railroad.html (135 words)

	International-Great Northern Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International-Great Northern Railroad Company was a major component of the Missouri Pacific lines in Texas.
		The railroad was formed on September 30, 1873, by the consolidation of the International Railroad and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad.
		In 1880, the railroad reached San Antonio and reached Laredo on December 1, 1881.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International-Great_Northern_Railroad (217 words)

	California State Railroad Museum Foundation - Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42
		A primary function of the railroads in the era prior to the wide use of the airplane was the transportation of the United States mail.
		Great Northern RPO No. 42 served some of the railroad's speediest passenger trains, including the Western Star and possibly the Mid-Century Empire Builder, carrying mail between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest.
		The car remained in the Great Northern's St. Paul, Minnesota yards until 1979 when it was donated by Burlington Northern to the California State Railroad Museum.
	www.csrmf.org /doc.asp?id=186 (429 words)

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		The great success of the Erie Canal was finally hailed as a conclusive argument against all the ridiculous claims made in favor of the railroad and precipitated a canal mania which spread all over the country.
		The establishment of five great railroads extending continuously from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago and the West was perhaps the most remarkable economic development of the ten or fifteen years succeeding the war.
		Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext02/rroad10.txt (20047 words)

	Hand forged and blued Great Northern Railroad spike knife
		Railroad spike knives are hand forged from discarded railroad spikes found along the Great Northern tracks.
		I have found that the railroad spikes used on the main line are of better quality that those found in yards or sidings.
		I first heat the pommel end of the soon to be railroad spike knife, cool the pommel or cap, if you will, in water to prevent marring and then twist about half of the spike to form a handle with a pipe wrench.
	www.bronksknifeworks.com /railroad-spike.htm (374 words)

	Great Nothern
		The Great Northern was the dream of Jim Hill, He bought in 1878 a small Minnesota line called the St. Paul and Pacific.
		In 1893, the Great Northern as it became known reached Puget Sound at Everett Washington.
		Thus the Great Northern trains were always full, carrying cotton westward and lumber eastward.
	www.multied.com /railroad/Greatnorthern.html (254 words)

	Great Northern Railroad: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Great Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A separate article treats the Great Northern Railway in Britain.
		Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington --- more than 1700 miles --- was the creation of the 19th century railroad tycoon James J. Hill.
		In 1970 it became part of the Burlington Northern Railroad[?] in a merger.
	www.encyclopedian.com /gr/Great-Northern-Railroad.html (103 words)

	The Great Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the Great Northern was a late bloomer in terms of transcontinental railroads, the organization grew and became prosperous.
		The railroad not only influenced the state of trade in the railroad not only influenced the state of trade in the northern U.S., it was the catalyst for expansion, development of communities, an enabled man to conquer wild impassable territory.
		The gentleman representing the advertising department of the Great Northern railway declare that it is the intention of the margar roads to give particular attention to Montana in the immigration movement....
	www.lchigh.net /library/pintler.htm (789 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: INTERNATIONAL-GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD
		The railroad was formed on September 30, 1873, by the consolidation of the International Railroad Company and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad.
		Although operated as a part of the International and Great Northern, the Henderson and Overton Branch was not consolidated until August 31, 1911.
		The International and Great Northern entered receivership on April 1, 1878, was sold at foreclosure, and conveyed to a new company organized under the original charter on November 1, 1879.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/II/eqi4.html (1193 words)

	James J Hill and the Building of His Railroad Empire - RailServe.com
		Railroads like the Union Pacific, Central Pacific, and Northern Pacific were each given millions of acres of public land to build their transcontinental routes.
		Hill's Great Northern was the only railroad in the Pacific to remain in good condition through the panic.
		A Great Northern stockholder objected using the Minnesota law prohibiting the combining of parallel and competing railroads.
	www.railserve.com /JJHill.html (3236 words)

	Great Northern #A22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was used by Louis W. Hill, then president of the Great Northern Railway, which had been founded by his father, James J. Hill.
		In 1970, the Great Northern merged with the Northern Pacific and CBandQ to form the Burlington Northern.
		In honor of this milestone, plans for the restoration of the Great Northern #A-22 are now underway.
	www.mcrwy.com /collectn/stlpas/gna22.html (519 words)

	Great Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The depot, a residence for the section foreman, a bunk house for the section crews, a signal tower near where the Northern Pacific and Great Northern crossed, and a coal chute west of the depot were all erected in 1912.
		After the Great Northern became a transcontinental railroad and as years went by, they made up a special train of 10-12 cars which was called the "Silk Train." Cargoes of silk valued at millions of dollars were hauled to Chicago and then New York.
		In 1914, the Great Northern passenger train stopped 2 1/2 miles west of town to let people off and on to attend the "Big Auction Sale" on the Donald Campbell farm which was located about a quarter mile from the track.
	www.webfamilytree.com /great_northern_railroad1.htm (1478 words)

	Great Northern Railway Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		is one of the most haunted in all of northern Virginia...
		The Great Northern Railroad (AAR reporting mark: GN), running from St.
		Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington—more than 1700 miles—was the creation of the 19th century railroad tycoon James J. Hill.
	great-northern-railway-us.wikiverse.org (237 words)

	A History of Minneapolis: Railways
		This railroad, which would become the Great Northern, crossed the river into Minneapolis at Nicollet Island in 1866.
		The Great Northern Railroad Station (1922) at Hennepin Avenue and the Mississippi River.
		(The Great Northern Station was built in 1914 and razed in 1978.) Empty for many years, the Milwaukee Road Depot and train shed have been transformed into a hotel, restaurant and ice rink complex.
	www.mplib.org /history/tr2.asp (515 words)

	Northern Pacific Railroad, Idnian Treaty, Yellowstone River, Fort Rice, Stampede
		Northern Pacific Railroad surveying and building clearly an boldly broke the 1868 Treaty with the Indians.
		Northern Pacific Railroad surveying teams were antagonized by the Sioux Indians as they began surveying the Yellowstone river valley
		This transcontinental railroad, the Northern Pacific Railroad was finally completed in September of 1883, due in part to Henry Villard taking over the board of directors and becoming president in 1881.
	www.linecamp.com /museums/americanwest/western_clubs/northern_pacific_railroad/northern_pacific_railroad.html (682 words)

	Great Northern War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Front and its backersâ roles in the ongoing war for the Great Lakes region...
		The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one side and Sweden on the other side from 1700 to 1721.
		It started by a coordinated attack on Sweden by the coalition in 1700 and ended 1721 with the conclusion of the Treaty of Nystad, and the Stockholm treaties.
	www.wikiverse.org /great-northern-war (288 words)

	Great Northern Railway Page
		Local artist David Hose has painted a beautiful rendition of Great Northern
		steam locomotive #2555 (a 4-8-4, S-1 class Northern) on the side of a
		Great Northern Goat fans have visited since April 16, 2002.
	www.gngoat.org (110 words)

	Great Northern Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The epic completion of Great Northern Railway's transcontinental line to the Pacific in 1893 and the creation of BN some 77 years later were in a very real sense the fulfillment of one man's dreams.
		The expansion of the railroad in Minnesota and into Dakota Territory continued at a steady pace, and by the close of 1885 the system of main and branch lines had grown to 1,470 miles.
		In September 1889 the name of the railroad was changed to Great Northern Railway Company.
	trishymouse.net /family/goat.html (399 words)

	Leavenworth Dining and Restaurants at the Icicle Inn Resort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Built solely around the Great Northern Railroad's east side entrance to the Cascade Mountains, the town was platted in 1893 by a group of financiers headed by "Captain" Charles F. Leavenworth.
		From the very beginning the heart of the town was the Great Northern Railroad with its depot and roundhouse.
		Because of the railroad the abundance of timber in the Northwest could now reach the unquenchable markets in the Midwest and east coast.
	www.icicleinn.com /dining.htm (420 words)

	Great Northern Depot--Fargo, ND
		The Great Northern Depot, built in 1906 at 425 Broadway, was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by St. Paul architect Samuel Bartlett, a friend of James J. Hill, the founder of the Great Northern railroad.
		In 1970, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific merged to become the Burlington Northern Railroad.
		It was opened as the Great Northern Restaurant and Brewery in late 1995 and was considered a major event in the revitalization of downtown Fargo.
	www.fargo-history.com /downtown/gn-depot.htm (418 words)

	James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railroad
		The railroad had received subsidies but those were not sufficient to overcome the railroads mismanagement, or perhaps it was mismanaged because of the availability of the subsidies.
		In addition these railroads got Federal loans of $16,000 for each mile of track laid in flat praire land, $32,000 for a mile in hilly terrain and $48,000 for a mile of track in the mountains.
		Hill's Great Northern Railroad did not go broke despite all of the impediments placed in its way by the political maneuvering of the subsidized lines.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/hill.htm (768 words)

	Railroad History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The charter states that the railroad may transfer its rights to the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad.
		1873 The Canton, Kosciusko, Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Railroad is reorganized as the New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad.
		The route from Kosciusko to Canton is abandoned and new route from Kosciusko to Kosciusko Junction (south of Durant) is chosen.
	www.ksry.com /history.htm (409 words)

	Cascade Tunnel Poster
		The print measures 19 X 25 inches and depicts the flora, fauna and historic significance of the Great Northern Railroad's "8 mile" Cascade Tunnel between Wenatchee and Everett, Washington.
		Only two Burlington Northern officials were at the burial ceremony, along with one or two others interested in the the event.
		The Cascade Tunnel is one of the longest railroad tunnels in the United States, built by the Great Northern railroad, located in central Washington about 60 miles (100 km) east of Seattle.
	www.tinynet.com /cascade.html (969 words)

	Great Northern Railway in BC's Fraser Valley (1)
		By 1889 the FandS had built south to Sedro in Skagit County, and the following year the line was extended from Fairhaven north to the boundary, finally connecting with the NWSR early in 1891 -- creating the first rail connection from British Columbia into the United States.
		Previous to the construction of the Cloverdale-Sumas line, the Great Northern's VTRandF and VWandY (Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway, built in 1904 linking New Westminster with Vancouver) had fallen under the flag of the VVandE.
		In 1912 the VVandE was extended east of Abbotsford to Kilgard and then eventually, in 1916, to connect with the main line of the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) between Chilliwack Mountain and Sumas Mountain.
	www.vanc.igs.net /~roughley/gn_fv.html (412 words)

	Wisconsin Great Northern Excursion
		The Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad is a tourist railroad in northern Wisconsin that operates over trackage of the former Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, from Spooner to Trego, WI.
		This wonderful railroad boasts several passenger cars, an interesting variety of equipment, and plenty of friendly people who work hard to provide a nice train ride for their customers!
		This former passenger station is what is left of what used to be a larger station, built by the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Co. Today it is used as a railroad museum, and the passengers board just north of the station.
	www.kc0jow.com /photos/WGN_20031018 (552 words)

	Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad Excursion Train Home Page
		About Us The Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad is a historic excursion and dinner train operating on approximately 20 miles of former Chicago and North Western track between the northern Wisconsin towns of Spooner and Springbrook along the picturesque Namekagon River.
		The railroad operates locomotives from the 1940's and a fleet of mahogany interior passenger cars built between 1910 and 1930.
		The Wisconsin Great Northern has professionals ready to assist you in creating a special event, from the train ride to the food and entertainment, we can handle all of the details.
	www.spoonertrainride.com /Home_Page.htm (437 words)

	Great Northern Railway Combo DVD
		For over 40 years, respected railroad photographer Anthony DeRosa railfanned the Great Northern Railway system, filming its operations from Seattle to Lake Superior and capturing the essence of a once-powerful and always popular railway.
		Witness the iron ore operations of the Great Northern from the mines and ore docks at Kelly Lake to Allouez, St. Paul, and Superior.
		See the Great Northern’s widely varied fleet of steam power in action, from the smallest 0-6-0s to the giant 2-8-8-2s.
	www.pentrex.com /gnrdvd.html (211 words)

	LST&T Railroad - Great Northern Empire
		The Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railroad, full corporate name, the Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway of the State of Wisconsin (big name, small railroad) operated about two dozen miles of trackage entirely within the City of Superior from the 1880's to the 1980's.
		Operations-wise, the Terminal was mostly a first and second trick railroad with some third shift during busy times such as the traditional grain rush.
		In the 1970's, the story I was told by various personnel there was that the railroad was owned 50% by Burlington Northern, and 25% each by Soo and CandNW.
	www.greatnorthernempire.net /GNELST&TRailroad.htm (993 words)

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