Today, some things have changed. The Great Northern merged with three other railroads to form Burlington Northern in 1970, which itself merged with the Santa Fe to form BNSF Railway in 1995.

The Riverside and Great Northern Railway marked the milestone with a celebration. The Railway was started by Elmer Sandley, who dreamed of providing people a means of transportation in the 1940s.

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 ...

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 ...

Review The book: "Great Northern Railway: Ore docks of Lake Superior photo archive," Iconografix, 2002 Author: Douglass D. Addison Sr. ISBN: 1-58388-073-9 Cost: $29.95 ...

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 ...

Open in new tab (upbeat violin music) - [Narrator] With the rise of the Great Northern as a transcontinental railway, James J. Hill became one of the most dominant figures associated with any ...

A Spokane jury ruled that the Great Northern Railway was not liable for the summer wildfire that essentially destroyed the town of Milan, the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported on Dec. 28, 1921.