GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS &WESTLAKE CO. ADLAKE RELIABLE GNRy 1897
This is a Vintage piece of Railroad History made by The Adams & Westlake Company for the GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD. The frame is marked THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO.
21, 1897, last date APR. The Brass burner is marked ADLAKE PAT. 27,1909, burner and fount are in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe is embossed G. Cnx D MADE IN U.
"SAFETY ALWAYS", No cracks, some small flea chips around rims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the US railway. For other railways with the same name, see Great Northern Railway.
1918; dotted lines represent nearby railroads. 8,368 miles (13,467 km). Canada Friendship in Havre, Montana. The Great Northern Railway reporting mark.
GN was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. And was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern's route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad.
In 1970, the Great Northern Railway merged with three other railroads to form the Burlington Northern Railroad. Which merged in 1996 with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. To form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway. In 1939 with the Great Northern logo above the drivers.
The Great Northern was built in stages, slowly creating profitable lines, before extending the road further into undeveloped Western territories. In a series of the earliest public relations campaigns, contests were held to promote interest in the railroad and the ranchlands along its route. Adams used promotional incentives such as feed and seed donations to farmers getting started along the line. The very first predecessor railroad to the company was the St.
He had gone bankrupt running a small line between St. He named the locomotive he ran for himself and the William Crooks would be the first locomotive of the Great Northern Railway. (a wealthy fur trader friend), Donald Smith. A Hudson's Bay Company. Smith's cousin and president of the Bank of Montreal.
On March 13, 1878, the road's creditors formally signed an agreement transferring their bonds and control of the railroad to J. On September 18, 1889, Hill changed the name of the Minneapolis and St. (a railroad which existed primarily on paper, but which held very extensive land grants throughout the Midwest and Pacific Northwest) to the Great Northern Railway. On February 1, 1890, he consolidated his ownership of the StPM&M, Montana Central Railway. And other rail lines to the Great Northern.The Great Northern had branches that ran north to the Canada-US border. In Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. It also had branches that ran to Superior, Wisconsin.
Connecting with the iron range of Minnesota and copper mines of Montana. The railroad's best-known engineer was John Frank Stevens.
Who served from 1889 to 1903. Stevens was acclaimed for his 1889 exploration of Marias Pass. And determined its practicability for a railroad.Stevens was an efficient administrator with remarkable technical skills and imagination. Through the Cascade Mountains, set railroad construction standards in the Mesabi Range, and supervised the construction of the Oregon Trunk Line. He then became the chief engineer of the Panama Canal. The logo of the railroad, a Rocky Mountain goat.
Was based on a goat William Kenney. One of the railroad's presidents, had used to haul newspapers as a boy. This section does not cite. Please help improve this section. By adding citations to reliable sources.
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Learn how and when to remove this template message. A Great Northern H class pacific with a Belpaire. Fireboxes were rare in the US, but the Pennsylvania.And Great Northern both had locomotives featuring them in significant numbers. They were mostly manufactured by or to Baldwin.
Great Northern brakeman checks train from caboose. The mainline began at Saint Paul, Minnesota, heading west along the Mississippi River bluffs, crossing the river to Minneapolis on a massive multi-piered stone arch bridge. Just below the Saint Anthony Falls.The bridge ceased to be used as a railroad bridge in 1978, becoming a pedestrian river crossing with excellent views of the falls and of the lock system. The mainline headed northwest from the Twin Cities, across North Dakota and eastern Montana. The line then crossed the Rocky Mountains. It then followed the Flathead River.
And then to Spokane, Washington. The company town and extensive railroad facility of Hillyard, Washington. Was named after James J.And briefly manufactured the R Class 2-8-8-2 around 1927 which was the largest steam locomotive in the world at the time. From there the mainline crossed the Cascade Mountains. In 1893, with the driving of the last spike at Scenic, Washington, on January 6, 1893. The Great Northern electrified Steven's Pass and briefly owned the electric Spokane and Inland Empire Railway. The deadliest avalanche in US history swept two Great Northern trains off the tracks at Wellington, Washington.
By the Cascade Tunnel killing 96 people. The mainline west of Marias Pass has been relocated twice. The original route over Haskell Pass. Montana, was replaced in 1904 by a more circuitous but flatter route via Whitefish.
Joining the Kootenai River at Rexford, Montana. A further reroute was necessitated by the construction of the Libby Dam.
On the Kootenai River in the late 1960s. The United States Army Corps of Engineers. Built a new route through the Salish Mountains, including the 7-mile-long (11 km) Flathead Tunnel. Second-longest in the United States, to relocate the tracks away from the Kootenai River.
This route opened in 1970. The surviving portions of the older routes from Columbia Falls. To Eureka, are operated by Watco.
As the Mission Mountain Railroad. The Great Northern mainline crossed the continental divide. Through Marias Pass, the lowest crossing of the Rockies south of the Canada-US border. Here, the mainline forms the southern border of Glacier National Park.
Which the GN promoted heavily as a tourist attraction. GN constructed stations at East Glacier and West Glacier entries to the park, stone and timber lodges at the entries, and other inns and lodges throughout the Park.
Have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to unique construction, location, and the beauty of the surrounding regions. In 1931, the GN also developed the "Inside Gateway", a route to California that rivaled the Southern Pacific Railroad.
S route between Oregon and California. The GN route was further inland than the SP route and ran south from the Columbia River. The GN connected with the Western Pacific.
The Western Pacific connected with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe. And together the three railroads (GN, WP, and ATSF) competed with Southern Pacific for traffic between California and the Pacific Northwest. With a terminus at Superior, Wisconsin, the Great Northern was able to provide transportation from the Pacific to the Atlantic by taking advantage of the shorter distance to Duluth from the ocean, as compared to Chicago.