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Ex- Santa Fe F45 painted in GN Big Sky Blue and converted to a luxury hotel suite! At the Isaak Walton Inn » Web site with photos of the restoration HERE » GN RPO #42Photos of RPO car #42 restored at the California State RR Museum »
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 Essex Montana videoThe gnarchive staff had the pleasure of spending 3 nights at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex in July, 2010, and shot this video of trains in and around Essex. Staying at the Izaak Walton Inn is a must-do trip for GN aficionados, and with the added bonus of BNSF's switch to GN's orange and green colors, it's easy (OK - with the help of a beer or two in fading daylight) to imagine how Essex might have looked in the mid-50's. "Cab ride" videosThe staff of gnarchive.com had the opportunity to shoot video out the back of the eastbound Empire Builder between Portland and Essex, Mont. These clips have been reversed, and sped up, to give the effect of a high-speed cab ride (Also to conserve bandwidth and make the video a reasonable length).
From the GNRHS/NPRHS Archives:Here's an example of the photos you can find over at the Great Northern - Northern Pacific joint archives »
On the Empire Builder in 1954On YouTube- Glacier Park to Cut Bank area on the Incomparable Great Northern Railway "Empire Builder" in 8mm film by Edgar W. Rynerson.
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.
 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! 
Video of ex-GN dome 
