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” was 21 ...

Without the Great Northern Railway, there would be no Glacier National Park in Montana. The park was established north of the GN mainline, today owned by BNSF Railway. The Great Northern built its ...

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 ...

Sometimes the iron mining and shipping industries seem so woven into the lives and history of northern Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin that they become sort of invisible. It's not that we don't see ...

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