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Postcard showing the Great Northern Railway Depot and a grain elevator behind the depot in Clontarf, c.1880s.
The front of the Great Northern Railway Depot, Minneapolis, 1914.
Great Northern Railway diesel locomotives #2010, 2005, and 2012, ca. 1935–1945. Photograph by Charles R. Pearson Photography.
Great Northern Railway float, St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1942.
Great Northern Railway Veterans’ Association pin, ca. 1913–1940.
James J. Hill's certificate of membership (#1) in the Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern Railway. Issued in St. Paul on April 9, 1913. From the Louis W. Hill papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society.
Great Northern Railways Veterans’ Association badge, ca. 1913–1916.
The Great Northern Railway’s Winnipeg Limited crossing the Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, ca. 1955.
Great Northern streamliner train in Glacier National Park, ca. 1955. Photograph by the Great Northern Railway.