GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS &WESTLAKE COMPANY THE ADAMS G. N. Ry 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 COMPANY CHICAGO THE "ADAMS" G. 21, 1897, last date JAN. The frame is numbered 1770. The Brass burner is marked ADLAKE CHICAGO, burner and twist off fount are in good working condition.
The Corning clear glass globe is embossed G. Cnx "SAFETY ALWAYS", No cracks, some cast marks straw and bubble and 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.