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On the Empire Builder in 1964 Tom Biery sends this account of riding the Empire Builder in the summer of 1964 at the tender age of 15 — on his own, just for the ride. He took many photos and provided a traveloue of his adventures. See Tom's Empire Builder trip » This was the summer that the GN suffered major diruptions along its line around Glacier National Park in northern Montana as spring thaws combined with days of rain caused flooding and many washouts between East Glacier and Whitefish. The GN detoured its trains vis Great Falls and on to the NP mainline through Missoula, regaining GN rails at Sandpoint, Idaho. The incredible Hulk
...the ex-GN and BN NW-5 used for a short time by CBRY (Council Bluffs Ry.), all the carbody above the running board, resting on top of another boxcar. Seems kind of a shame, would an old GP-7 underframe with maybe switcher innards fit beneath this carbody? Or I wonder if a certain museum in Duluth, MN could use some extra body parts... ...maybe somebody will see where it is and come to its rescue! The last place I saw these in service was at Minneapolis Jct. enginehouse in 1980, when I was in BN engine training in St. Paul.... I think four of these ended up on Colorado & Eastern in Goodland, KS, and in 1982, Great Western Railway in Loveland, CO acquired two of them.... At a later date, I looked around Goodland, KS, and in the weeds sat two other partially disassembled NW-5's. Though it was worn out from the heavy transfer service in the Twin Cities and breakdown-prone, 994 disappeared from Loveland, presumably to start its last career, on CBRY. Several years later, the other one that sat behind the roundhouse in Loveland was hauled away to go up to Duluth and was the one restored so lovingly - it looks great! — J.L. Hickey 
1947 Science IllustratedThis striking cover illustration from the April, 1947 issue of Science Illustrated has to be one of the best illustations of a diesel locomotive in its time, and happens to showcase a GN E-7. The artwork really shows how the luminous new technology emerged from the soot and black steel of the steam era into the bright post-war future. Sure, the details of the E-7 are very stylized, but the artist really captured the luminous glossy finish of the bright Omaha orange and Pullman green diesel at the moment of its completion, ready to sprint out of the EMD stable into the light.
Joint GN -NP archives now onlineThe GN and NP Rwy. historical societies have created a web site where you can browse some of the holdings at the Jackson St. roundhouse in St. Paul.
Streamlined passenger car roster updatesPhotos from the Newby collection have been cross-linked to their entries (where available or identifiable) on the Streamlined Cars Roster page »
An old Goat that's still kickin' |
Orange and Green lives on! 
The 'Virtual' St. Nicholas Mt. project
Video of ex-GN dome 
