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Great Northern Railway Condensed History Issued by GN Public Relations Depart
Great Northern Railway Condensed History Issued by GN Public Relations Department
Revised 1961
12 pages.
Stapled
Notice minor damage
The Great Northern Railway serves a vast, diversified and productive region comprising the Upper Midwest and the Northwest.
On a system 8, 277 miles in length, its trains carry freight, passengers, mail and express in the area between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean. The railway operates in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, and in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia.
Principal main lines extend from the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, and the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast.
These lines serve the grain, potato, sugar beet and soy bean-growing areas of the Red River Valley, North Dakota; Montana and eastern Washington; the potato, Great Northern bean, pea and the vegetable-processing sections of the Columbia Basin; the cattle country of North Dakota and Montana, and the apple and soft fruit-processing districts of the Wenatchee River Valley in Washington.
The railway also serves the regions of oil and gas, lignite and salt deposits in North Dakota; the oil, copper, zinc and vermiculite deposits in Montana; the limestone, silica rock and sand, lead, zinc and magnesite deposits of Washington; the fish-packing industries of the Puget Sound country; the lumbering tracts there and in Montana; and the oil refineries, cement and aluminum-reduction plants, and the growing electrochemical and hydro-electric industries of the Pacific Northwest.
Other main lines serve the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota, and the forests of South-central Oregon and northern California.
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