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I took the amtrak empire builder 🚂 - here’s what happened

The Amtrak Empire Builder train traverses dramatic landscapes across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington State. Covering the entire route in 46 hours at an ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Great Northern Railway birthed Glacier National Park

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. The Great Northern built its ...
Janesville Gazette

Riverside & Great Northern Railway: Tours will remember, walk Janesville tourist-gauge route

JANESVILLE — The Rock County Chapter of the Ice Age Trail Alliance will go back in time in October, offering an informational and walking tour series on the historic route of a tourist-gauge railroad ...
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Sioux City Railroad Museum to restore Great Northern Railway Steam Locomotive

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Sioux City Railroad Museum has some good news while still recovering from flooding. The museum is partnering with the American Heartland Railroad Society to restore a Great ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

A 43-foot golden spike arrives in Utah, marking the history of the transcontinental railroad

The original golden spike — which marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869 — measures about 5 ⅝ inches. A replica 92 times that size — 43 feet long — ...
nptelegraph

Sculpture honoring transcontinental railroad workers to visit North Platte Sunday, Monday

West central Nebraskans can get a look this weekend at a 43.3-foot-tall spike-shaped monument on its way to Utah that honors the thousands of workers who built America’s first transcontinental ...