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 ...

The 75-mile single phase 11-kv electrification of the Cascade Mountain division of the Great Northern is briefly described and the comparative performance of steam and electric locomotives is given, ...

Documentarians Stephen Sadis and Kyle Kegley take four hours to examine "Empire Builder" James J. Hill's transformative career. Hill's Great Northern Railway is well-represented in the Lake Superior ...

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 ...

James Jerome Hill, a Canadian-American born in 1838, was a rail tycoon of the 19th century. At 18 he settled in Minneapolis, working as a bookkeeper, eventually learning the freight and shipping ...

The pedestrian bridge offers some of the best up-close views of the Great Northern Railway clocktower in Riverfront Park, though the structure can be seen from most of the park and downtown Spokane.

“The Great Cascades have been materially moved by the ingenuity of man . . . Just a matter of a few weeks more than three years ago, ground was broken for this amazing hole in the ground, a hole eight ...

I boarded the Amtrak’s Empire Builder train in Minot, N.D., not long ago, en route to the railroad’s terminus in Seattle. A journey of 1,178 miles, 27 hours, starting at 9 a.m. CDT on a Friday and ...

WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. — It was a celebration on rails Saturday as the Riverside and Great Northern Railway marked 75 years of trips in Wisconsin Dells. The operation began in 1947 in Janesville when ...