A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
The Great Northern comes to life on the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Ry. based in Osceola, WI, featuring a restored 1916 era Soo Line depot on the former Soo mainline between Minneapolis & Sault Ste... (more)
The 3018 one of Great Northern GP35s rests between assignments at Minneapolis on July 28, 1965. The major identifying feature between the first and second GP35 orders was that the first group was... (more)