
The Great Northern Railway. A History.
Hidy, Ralph W.; Hidy, Muriel E.; Scott, Roy V.
The definitive history of one of the nation’s great transcontinental railroads
In the sprawling Northwest, from the upper Mississippi River valley to Puget Sound, no railroad shaped the landscape and society like the Great Northern Railway Company. This is the complete history of that enterprise, from 1856, when the first charter was granted, through the era of James J. Hill—known as the Empire Builder—to its maturation and eventual merger in 1970, when the eight-thousand-mile Great Northern was incorporated into the massive Burlington Northern.
The Great Northern Railway highlights the changes brought on by economic, political, social, and technological advances, ... Read more
Illustrated with more than two hundred maps, period photographs, and drawings, the volume also includes appendixes listing the original track-laying history, track removals, ruling grades on main freight routes, and main line ruling grades from Minneapolis to Seattle.
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