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Remembering Great Northern freight trains

By Chuck Braasch | September 15, 2020

| Last updated on December 29, 2020

The Great Northern Railway is Classic Trains' Railroad of the Month for September 2020

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Boxcar in front of modern rail yard office.
Steam locomotive hauls a freight train through the prairie.
Mallet-type steam locomotive hauls a freight train on a rocky grade among mountain tops and thinning forest.
Diesel locomotives pull a long freight train over a high bridge.
Diesel locomotive led freight train glides on an embankment above a river. A dam appears in the background of a treeless landscape.
Bird's eye view of a rail yard in a mountain valley town.
Two electric heavy freight motors pull a long freight train through a sparsely treed mountain scene.
Wide scene of high-desert and mountains with a cab unit led train crossing a river.
Mid-20th-century diesel locomotives lead a long train of covered hoppers in a rolling farm scene.
Covered hopper train on a mountain plateau crossing a bridge and river.
Boxcar in front of modern rail yard office.
Steam locomotive hauls a freight train through the prairie.
Mallet-type steam locomotive hauls a freight train on a rocky grade among mountain tops and thinning forest.
Diesel locomotives pull a long freight train over a high bridge.
Diesel locomotive led freight train glides on an embankment above a river. A dam appears in the background of a treeless landscape.
Bird's eye view of a rail yard in a mountain valley town.
Two electric heavy freight motors pull a long freight train through a sparsely treed mountain scene.
Wide scene of high-desert and mountains with a cab unit led train crossing a river.
Mid-20th-century diesel locomotives lead a long train of covered hoppers in a rolling farm scene.
Covered hopper train on a mountain plateau crossing a bridge and river.
The nerve center of the Minot N.D., yard is this yard office, its impressive control tower commanding a view of the entire 471-acre facility. The freight cars pictured have just entered one of the five electronically controlled retarders. The floodlight is one of that that provide 62.75 million candlepower for safe nighttime operation.

Great Northern

 

All this month — September 2020 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Great Northern Railway.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include GN diesel- and steam-powered freight trains through time.

You might also enjoy this Great Northern history article from Classic Trains or a passenger train gallery!

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