Without the Great Northern Railway, there would be no Glacier National Park in Montana. The park was established north of the GN mainline, today owned by BNSF Railway. The Great Northern built its ...

With popular national parks still searching for the answers to congestion, train travel is a practical solution—and a unique ...

A four-episode documentary on The Great Northern Railway will be released Sept. 30, telling the story of the man who built it. “The Empire Builder: James J. Hill and The Great Northern Railway ...

Right now, the Riverside and Great Northern Railway have two operating steam engines, but Welke said they are working on a third and a fourth. "We want to keep them up and we want to keep them running ...

Special thanks to Great Northern Railway historian Scott Tanner for research assistance with this story, and to John Chase, author of a 2014 “Reference Sheet” about the Monroe greenhouses for ...

In 1878, railroad “Empire Builder” James J. Hill gained control of the SP&P, which would become part of the Great Northern Railway (GN), a BNSF predecessor. The GN, which eventually became Burlington ...

Great Northern Railway clocktower. ... Originally constructed at the turn of the 20th century as part of the Great Northern Railroad depot, the clock tower was preserved to keep time at Expo ’74.

"Great Northern Railway" has telling details, too, like chips of concrete along a walkway, broken loose not by industrial work but by sub-zero temperatures and structural strains.

A Spokane jury ruled that the Great Northern Railway was not liable for the summer wildfire that essentially destroyed the town of Milan, which is about a mile east of the current Riverside High ...

Hill always saw his railroad’s mission as moving goods, not producing them; mining wasn’t part of the Great Northern Railway charter; and above all, by 1906 it became illegal for railroads to ...