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  1. Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home

    Built 45 years earlier by EMD for Great Northern to work out of Klamath Falls on the Oregon, California & Eastern, BNSF 6126 (ex-GN 599) works home turf in Klamath Falls.  
  2. Eastbound at Odessa

    Eastbound at Odessa

    A BNSF EB stack train approaches Odessa, WA.
  3. Cool Lodging in Essex, MT

    Cool Lodging in Essex, MT

    Our hotel room for two nights! What a great place for the railfan to stay.
  4. GN boxcar!

    GN boxcar!

    Last time I was @ IPSCO (major scrapper) I spotted an old NP mail coach, so I knew there was treasre to be found. On my last trip to Regina I made sure I didn't miss any of it, by driving around every block of the compound. I got lots of strange looks from buldozer operators, but look what I...
  5. Glacier Green at Hillyard

    Glacier Green at Hillyard

    Hillyard in Spokane Wa. was Great Northern's main Steam & Diesel shop in the West. After the BN merger in 1972 the new Company decided to use Northern Pacific's Parkwater facility in Spokane as their repair facility and Hillyard became redundant. A few years after this picture was taken...
  6. Great Northern's Butte Depot

    Great Northern's Butte Depot

    Great Northern's station in Butte, Mt. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to go in it & look around because I was too busy outside taking pictures of the Copper King Express & the locomotives pulling it (we only had about 10 min. & you expect me to fit both taking pics. of the train &amp...
  7. Rocky's out and about

    Rocky's out and about

    Someone must have been mouth balling some of these old Great Northern car some where .Seen a lot of them all of a sudden
  8. Great Northern Survivors

    Great Northern Survivors

    My lucky day Found Two Great Northern survivors in the mile high city.To see one is cool but to see two is Killer!
  9. Hustle Muscle

    Hustle Muscle

    The GN 400, known as Huscle Muscle waits on the CP ready line at St Paul Yard. This is the first production SD45 from EMD.
  10. GN in the Snow

    GN in the Snow

    The old GN NW-5 at Whitefish on a cold, cold night.
  11. Old GN tracks by the High School

    Old GN tracks by the High School

    Old GN tracks by the high school. the tracks were pulled up just a month or two after this picture was taken.
  12. The Y

    The Y

    A "Y" in the tracks by the City Park. It actually makes up a triangle.
  13. Old Lewistown Tracks

    Old Lewistown Tracks

    Picture of the tracks near the high school before they got torn up.
  14. 1914

    1914

    This is the date on the side of the rail. We had some very old tracks in Lewistown- that is, until they pulled them all up this summer, now there are no more trains for Lewistown.
  15. Overpass View

    Overpass View

    A view of part of the Whitefish yard & train station from the overpass that goes over the tracks.
  16. GN International

    GN International

    One of my first train photos with my dad\'s Brownie Box camera. Southbound GN International cruising through Bellingham yard enroute to the depot in 1969.
  17. NB International

    NB International

    GN 369-C brings the evening International (Seattle-Vancouver BC) to a stop at Bellingham WA in the summer of 1969.
  18. Great Northern NW3 #181

    Great Northern NW3 #181

    This is Great Northern NW3 #181, 1 of only 7 built by EMD in 1942. It is on display at the Whitefish depot.
  19. Ex-ATSF Caboose

    Ex-ATSF Caboose

    A closer look at OTVR Caboose 101 shows the old ATSF emblem plus the Great Northern goat on the hopper in the Otter Tail Valley Railroad yard.
  20. Reporting for Duty!

    Reporting for Duty!

    This Great Northern unit was hiding in the Camas Prairie Railnet yard in 2003 (Now Great Northwest RR). About as rare as it gets for a unit that is still in use!


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