Right now, the Riverside and Great Northern Railway have two operating steam engines, but Welke said they are working on a third and a fourth. "We want to keep them up and we want to keep them running ...

A four-episode documentary on The Great Northern Railway will be released Sept. 30, telling the story of the man who built it.

One of them is Douglass Addison, whose "Great Northern Railway: Ore docks of Lake Superior photo archive," a 129-page book, tells a great story almost entirely in pictures.

The museum is partnering with the American Heartland Railroad Society to restore a Great Northern Railway Steam Locomotive to operation.

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.

A red button at the center of the model display allows visitors to activate the trains watching them circle around the town. The whistle of the Great Northern Railway train announces its arrival.

The film, The Empire Builder: James J. Hill and the Great Northern Railway from Great Northern Filmworks, narrated by Clay Jenkinson, was released earlier this fall.

Flowers and plantings were once an important part of the travel industry, at least for the Great Northern Railway circa the 20th century.

Bygones: Great Northern Railway rented enormous computer in 1955 The machine consisted of a king-size complex of tubes, magnetic tapes, push-buttons and keyboards.