GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS &WESTLAKE CO. \"ADLAKE\" RELIABLE GNRy 1897 For Sale

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GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD LANTERN ADAMS &WESTLAKE CO. \"ADLAKE\" RELIABLE GNRy 1897:
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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY

This is a Vintage piece of RailroadHistory made by The Adams & Westlake Company for theGREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD. The frame is markedTHE ADAMS& WESTLAKE CO. NEW YORK CHICAGO PHILA. \"ADLAKE\" RELIABLE G.N.Ry. PAT\'D SEPT. 21, 1897, last date APR. 1, 1913. The Brass burner is marked ADLAKE PAT.APR.27,1909, burner and fountare in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe isembossed G.N.Ry.Cnx D MADE IN U.S.A. \"SAFETY ALWAYS\",No cracks, some small flea chips around rims.Please view photos and Email with questions. Thanks for looking.

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• James J. Hill
• John S. Kennedy
• Norman Kittson
• Donald Smith
• George Stephen

• British Columbia
• California
• Idaho
• Iowa
• Manitoba
• Minnesota
• Montana
• North Dakota
• Oregon
• South Dakota
• Washington
• Wisconsin

TheGreat Northern Railway(reporting markGN) was an AmericanClass I railroad. Running fromSaint Paul, Minnesota, toSeattle,Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneurJames J. Hilland was developed from theSaint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern\'s route was the northernmosttranscontinental railroadroute in the U.S.

In 1970, the Great Northern Railway merged with three other railroads to form theBurlington Northern Railroad, which merged in 1996 with theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railwayto form theBurlington 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.[1]

The very first predecessor railroad to the company was theSt. Paul and Pacific Railroadowned byWilliam Crooks. He had gone bankrupt running a small line betweenSt. PaulandMinneapolis. He named the locomotive he ran for himself and theWilliam Crookswould be the first locomotive of the Great Northern Railway.J.J. Hillconvinced New YorkbankerJohn S. Kennedy,Norman Kittson(a wealthy fur trader friend),Donald Smith(aHudson\'s Bay Companyexecutive),George Stephen(Smith\'s cousin and president of theBank of Montreal), and others to invest $5.5million in purchasing the railroad.[2]On March 13, 1878, the road\'s creditors formally signed an agreement transferring their bonds and control of the railroad to J.J. Hill\'s investment group.[3]On September 18, 1889, Hill changed the name of theMinneapolis and St. Cloud Railway(a railroad which existed primarily on paper, but which held very extensive land grants throughout the Midwest and Pacific Northwest) to the Great Northern Railway. On February 1, 1890, he consolidated his ownership of the StPM&M,Montana Central Railway, and other rail lines to the Great Northern.[4]

The Great Northern had branches that ran north to theCanada–US borderin Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. It also had branches that ran toSuperior, Wisconsin, andButte, Montana, connecting with the iron range of Minnesota and copper mines of Montana. In 1898 Hill purchased control of large parts of the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota and its rail lines. The Great Northern began large-scale shipment of ore to the steel mills of the Midwest.[5]

The railroad\'s best-known engineer wasJohn Frank Stevens, who served from 1889 to 1903. Stevens was acclaimed for his 1889 exploration ofMarias PassinMontanaand determined its practicability for a railroad. Stevens was an efficient administrator with remarkable technical skills and imagination. He discoveredStevens Passthrough the Cascade Mountains, set railroad construction standards in the Mesabi Range, and supervised the construction of the Oregon Trunk Line. He then became the chief engineer of thePanama Canal.[6]

The logo of the railroad, aRocky Mountain goat, was based on a goatWilliam Kenney, one of the railroad\'s presidents, had used to haul newspapers as a boy.[7][8][9]

The mainline began at Saint Paul, Minnesota, heading west along the Mississippi River bluffs, crossing the river to Minneapolis on a massive multi-pieredstone arch bridgejust below theSaint Anthony Falls. The bridge ceased to be used as a railroad bridge in 1978, becoming a pedestrian river crossing with excellent views of the falls and of the lock system. The mainline headed northwest from the Twin Cities, across North Dakota and eastern Montana. The line then crossed theRocky Mountainsat Marias Pass. It then followed theFlathead Riverand thenKootenai RivertoBonners Ferry, Idaho, south toSandpoint, Idaho, west toNewport, Washington, and then toSpokane, Washington. The company town and extensive railroad facility ofHillyard, Washingtonwas named afterJames J. Hilland briefly manufactured the R Class 2-8-8-2 around 1927 which was the largest steam locomotive in the world at the time.[10]From there the mainline crossed theCascade Mountainsthrough theCascade TunnelunderStevens Pass, reachingSeattle, Washington, in 1893, with the driving of the last spike at Scenic, Washington, on January 6, 1893. The Great Northern electrified Steven\'s Pass and briefly owned the electricSpokane and Inland Empire Railway. The deadliest avalanche in US history swept two Great Northern trains off the tracks atWellington, Washingtonby the Cascade Tunnel killing 96 people.

The mainline west of Marias Pass has been relocated twice. The original route overHaskell Pass, viaKalispellandMarion, Montana, was replaced in 1904 by a more circuitous but flatter route viaWhitefishandEureka, joining the Kootenai River atRexford, Montana.A further reroute was necessitated by the construction of theLibby Damon the Kootenai River in the late 1960s. TheUnited States Army Corps of Engineersbuilt a new route through the Salish Mountains, including the 7-mile-long (11km)Flathead Tunnel, second-longest in the United States, to relocate the tracks away from the Kootenai River. This route opened in 1970. The surviving portions of the older routes (fromColumbia Fallsto Kalispell andStrykerto Eureka), are operated byWatcoas the Mission Mountain Railroad.

The Great Northern mainline crossed thecontinental dividethrough Marias Pass, the lowest crossing of the Rockies south of the Canada–US border. Here, the mainline forms the southern border ofGlacier National Park, which the GN promoted heavily as a tourist attraction. GN constructed stations at East Glacier and West Glacier entries to the park, stone and timber lodges at the entries, and other inns and lodges throughout the Park. Many of thestructureshave been listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to unique construction, location, and the beauty of the surrounding regions.

In 1931, the GN also developed the \"Inside Gateway\", a route to California that rivaled theSouthern Pacific Railroad\'s route between Oregon and California. The GN route was further inland than the SP route and ran south from theColumbia Riverin Oregon. The GN connected with theWestern PacificatBieber, California; the Western Pacific connected with theAtchison, Topeka, and Santa FeinStockton, California, and together the three railroads (GN, WP, and ATSF) competed with Southern Pacific for traffic between California and thePacific Northwest. With a terminus at Superior, Wisconsin, the Great Northern was able to provide transportation from the Pacific to the Atlantic by taking advantage of the shorter distance to Duluth from the ocean, as compared to Chicago.

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