Former CB&Q GP35 2543 and an Erie Lackawanna F3B lead an early BN train at the Saint Anthony Parkway overpass in Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo
BN 990 is one of ten rare NW5 locomotives built for the Great Northern. This was built in December 1946 as GN 190. The front grill gives away the original GN color scheme striping with sheet metal... (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)
About 60 days are left in the history of the Great Northern Ry. on this cold early January 1970 afternoon. GP20 2011 displays its historic color scheme, minus the GREAT NORTHERN lettering on the l... (more)