The final train of the season to Two Harbors returns to Duluth behind Hustle Muscle as sun fights with clouds. The passengers on the sold-out North Shore Scenic Railroad train enjoyed a nice sampl... (more)

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 Great Nort... (more)

EMD's first production SD45, GN 400 Hustle Muscle, is moved at BNSF's Belknap Street engine facility in Superior. The SD45 is being moved to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Amazingly,... (more)

GN NW5 192 leads the Duluth Zephyr south back into downtown Duluth.

Burlington Northern GP30 2205 in GN's Big Sky Blue, former GN 3005.

While the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad is known for its steam locomotive operations, it also has Oregon's only operating F unit. The former Great Northern 274 reposes outside of OCSR's enginehous... (more)

Even with its fading paint, Great Northern EMD NW3 No. 181 makes a great display in the parking lot of the station at Whitefish, Montana, as seen on the morning of October 8, 2018. Only seven NW3s... (more)

A baker’s dozen years after the Great Northern was merged into the Burlington Northern, an unaltered 50’ GN boxcar rolls through Lilly, Pennsylvania.

McCloud River Railroad's 2-6-2 No. 2 meets with an Great Northern F7 unit by the shop at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad in Garibaldi, OR.

Both locomotives are owned by the tourist line and a... (more)

The McCloud River Railroad and the Great Northern Railroad meet - again!

A long time ago, these two railroads once met up just north of Bieber, California at a place known as Lookout Ju... (more)

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)