Great Northern BSB Coaches!
Great Northern BSB Coaches have arrived once again! These cars are a full set of amazing cars made by Budd, and used by Great Northern from the late 50s to the early 70s, Sit back, relax, and enjoy as these titans of the rails fly on by!
HISTORY
The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the U.S.
In 1970, the Great Northern Railway merged with three other railroads to form the Burlington Northern Railroad, which merged in 1996 with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.
The Great Northern was built in stages, slowly creating profitable lines, before extending the road further into undeveloped Western territories. In a series of the earliest public relations campaigns, contests were held to promote interest in the railroad and the ranchlands along its route. Fred J. Adams used promotional incentives such as feed and seed donations to farmers getting started along the line. Contests were all-inclusive, from the largest farm animals to the largest freight carload capacity, and were promoted heavily to immigrants and newcomers from the East.
GN operated various passenger trains, One of those Included the Big Sky Blue. (Reporting Mark: BSB) The train started in 1954 During the ending of the war, From Chicago to Seattle, Washington, Following the same route of the Empire Builder, Mainly run by SDP45’s in it’s later years, Mainly pulled by E and F units. In 1970, Great Northern eventually merged to be Burlington Northern, when this train had it’s last run on May 10th, 1970.
CREDITS
Huge thanks to Supershinx and Micro for the awesome Re-upload of the Milwaukee Road Streamliner cars.
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