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 ...

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Produced and directed by Stephen Sadis and Kyle Kegley and released on the Vimeo streaming service Sept. 30, “The Empire Builder: James J. Hill and The Great Northern Railway” tells the story ...

The Northern Pacific Railroad was 115 miles longer than the Great Northern Railroad. Hill was actually able to cut costs and maintain his profits throughout the panic of 1893 even in the midst of ...

A four-episode documentary on The Great Northern Railway will be released Sept. 30, telling the story of the man who built it. “The Empire Builder: James J. Hill and The Great Northern Railway ...

Special thanks to Great Northern Railway historian Scott Tanner for research assistance with this story, and to John Chase, author of a 2014 “Reference Sheet” about the Monroe greenhouses for ...

The first railroad connection to Spokane was the Northern Pacific in 1881, but close behind was James J. Hill and his Great Northern Railway.

At the center of all of it was the Great Northern Railroad. Tracks reached the community 50 miles southeast of Great Falls in 1890, one year after the community’s founding.

"Great Northern Railway" has telling details, too, like chips of concrete along a walkway, broken loose not by industrial work but by sub-zero temperatures and structural strains.

Right now, the Riverside and Great Northern Railway have two operating steam engines, but Welke said they are working on a third and a fourth. "We want to keep them up and we want to keep them running ...