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St Paul Union Depot |
St Paul, MN |
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Minneapolis Trust Company Commercial Building |
Sandstone |
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Astoria Column |
Astoria |
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Great Northern Depot |
Pipestone |
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Great Northern Railway Depot |
Mayville |
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Great Northern Freight Warehouse and Depot |
Grand Forks |
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Great Northern Passenger Depot |
Alexandria |
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Kevin Depot |
Kevin |
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Great Northern Depot |
Skykomish |
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Great Northern Passenger Depot |
Rugby |
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Great Northern Railway Steam Locomotive No 1355 and Tender 1451 |
Sioux City |
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1889/09/18 |
James J Hill forms the Great Northern Railway from the bankrupt St Paul and Pacific, and the Minneapolis and St Cloud. |
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1890/00/00 |
The Great Northern Railroad's negotiated pay regulations include paying conductors $125.00 a month, transfer engineers at $78.00 and firemen at $52.50, monthly. |
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1890/02/01 |
The Great Northern assumes control of the Montana Central Railway and the St Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba. |
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1891/04/24 |
Great Northern Railway track layers start from the town of Cut Bank, Montana. |
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Cut Bank, MT |
Montana |
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1891/09/14 |
Great Northern Railway reaches the Marias Pass, about 12 miles west of East Glacier Park, MT. |
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East Glacier Park, MT |
Montana |
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1891/12/31 |
Great Northern Railway tracks reach Kalispell on the last day of year. |
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Great Northern Railway Depot |
Kalispell, MT |
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1892/04/00 |
Great Northern Railway tracks cross the western border of Montana. |
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1892/07/00 |
Eight hundred railway workers, many are Japanese immigrants, construct miles of tracks across the Cascades through Stevens Pass. |
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Iron Goat Trail, Stevens Pass Historic District |
Stevens Pass |
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1893/00/00 |
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Rock Island Railroad Bridge |
Malaga |
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1893/00/00 |
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Rock Island Railroad Bridge |
Rock Island |
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1893/01/06 |
At Scenic, Washington, the Great Northern becomes a true transcontinental railroad by completing 13 miles (21 km) of track in a switchback alignment to connect the last 3 mile (5km) gap in their rail line. |
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Iron Goat Trail, Stevens Pass Historic District |
Stevens Pass |
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1900/12/20 |
First Cascade Tunnel is completed. |
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First Cascade Railroad Tunnel |
Stevens Pass |
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1902/00/00 |
Original portion built |
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Great Northern Freight Warehouse |
Fargo |
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1906/00/00 |
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Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depot |
Aberdeen, SD |
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1906/00/00 |
Wayzata Depot opens, designed by A H Hogeland (Great Northern Railway Chief engineer) and Samuel L Bartlett. |
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Great Northern Railroad Depot |
Wayzata |
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1907/00/00 |
Great Northern Railway builds a chalet hotel for their passengers in Belton, Montana. Remodeled later on, it is now houses a dining room and tap room with large stone fireplace. |
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Belton Chalets |
Glacier National Park, MT |
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1909/00/00 |
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Penstock Bridge |
Leavenworth |
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1909/00/00 |
Great Northern Passenger Depot built |
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Great Falls Railroad Historic District |
Great Falls |
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1910/00/00 |
Between 1910-1915, Great Northern Railway builds nine chalets: Belton, St Mary, Sun Point, Many Glacier, Two Medicine, Sperry, Granite Park, Cut Bank and Gunsight Lake. |
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Great Northern Railway Buildings |
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1910/03/01 |
With the loss of 96 lives, Great Northern depot and trains are destroyed by avalanche at Wellington. |
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Wellington Town Site |
Stevens Pass |
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Wellington Avalanche |
1912/00/00 |
Two Medicine Chalet is built. The Two Medicine Campstore was once the dining hall of Two Medicine Chalet complex. |
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Two Medicine General Store |
Glacier National Park, MT |
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1913/00/00 |
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Sperry Chalets |
Glacier National Park, MT |
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1913/00/00 |
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Granite Park Chalet |
Glacier National Park, MT |
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1914/00/00 |
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Many Glacier Hotel |
Glacier National Park, MT |
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1923/00/00 |
The Great Northern Railroad buys a Pullman observation-compartment car and transports it to Alaska. It is renamed Denali, the Indian word for the highest mountain in Alaska, Mount McKinley. |
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Harding Railroad Car |
Fairbanks |
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1937/00/00 |
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Great Northern Railway Underpass |
Stanley, ND |
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