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The following items are from the June 2010 Goat mailing:
(no change from March 2010)

For Sale or Wanted: 

For Sale:  All-time Great Northern Maintenance Equipment Roster on CD (MS Word and Adobe Acrobat Formats).  $20.00 each postage paid in U.S.  Foreign orders please contact me for shipping costs.  Kenneth R. Middleton, 1545 Brookmoor Lane, Portage, MI  49024 or by email at:  krmiddle@worldnet.att.net

For Sale:  All-time Great Northern Passenger Car Roster on CD (MS Word and Adobe Acrobat formats).  $20.00 each postage paid in the U.S.  Foreign orders please contact me for shipping costs.  Kenneth R. Middleton, 1545 Brookmoor Lane, Portage, MI  49024 or by email at:  krmiddle@worldnet.att.net

For Sale:  The Skykomish Historical Society has completed a new photo history CD titled:  Electric Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway.  The CD contains over 125 photos of locomotives, station plots showing substation locations, High Cars for servicing the lines, views of substations and substation buildings and photos of the Tumwater Canyon dam and power plant.  A complete copy of the 112 page, Instructions for Operation and Maintenance of Electric Motive Power is included as published in 1947.  All images are .jpg files.  These CD's are sold for personal use only and reproduction requires permission.  The CD's sell for US $22.50 each, postage paid in the USA.  International Postage is by arrangement.  Contact the Skykomish Historical Society, PO Box 247, Skykomish, WA  98288 or by email at mvmmvm@comcast.net

For Sale:  Brass Locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars and cabooses.  Long time GNRHS member is disposing of his extensive collection.  All are new and in the box.  Following is an example.  Coachyard GN 68 seat chair car #999 - $300.00.  Lambert Pullman car 12 sec. - $110.00.  Oriental Buffet Parlor OB 8#1084-83 - $200.00.  Oriental Baggage-Mail-Express (1935) - $200.00.  Oriental GN 400-416 Baggage - $200.00.  Shoreham 16 Section Tourist Sleeper - $200.00  The following are as a lot only:  O.L., GN RPO #25-36, O.L., First Class Coach Modernized 950-961, O.L., Deluxe Coach 944-949, O.L., Diner 1030-1051, O.L., Sleeper 6-6 10012-1014, O.L., Pullman 8-1-2, Soho&Co., No 1074 J.J. Hill Solarium Lounge $1,200.00.  Second Lot, Precision Scale RPO-Baggage, O.L., GN E.B., 2nd Class Coach #646-667, O.L., Diner 1030-1051, O.L., Pullman 14 section, O.L., Pullman 8-1-2, O.L. E.B. Obs Lounge#1071-1075, O.L., Deluxe Coach - $1,200.00.  Trains, Inc., GN Express Wood Reefer - $100.00.  Send SASE (#10) for full listing.  James Vyverberg, 5526 Stoney Brook Road, Kalamazoo, MI  49009, Phone (269) 372-6168.  You may email me and the list will be returned as a Word attachment.  jmberg5526@sbcglobal.net

For Sale:  GN Brass - CB: K-4-4-2; Oriental: C-4, GP-20, NW-2, Q-1 SAFWH, Q-1-BLFWH, 25' yard caboose w/o cupola cp;, 25' yard caboose w/cupola.  Water car #3207, X31-40 caboose, X41-95 caboose, X96-155 caboose, Gas Electric #2302 and trailer #600 fp; Overland: O-3, NW-3 modern, NW-5, 1945 steel caboose fp #273, 1945 steel caboose fp #266, X-181 caboose cp, snow dozer 1680-1694, PFM: Z-9 A-B fp, S-2 fp; Sunset F-1, O-1, O-4, Q-2; Westside: A-9, H-4, H-7, S-2; email to eandcchristoffers@hotmail.com for more information and price list.

For Sale:  Custom made MicroScale decal sheet; HO scale GN 54" diameter heralds.  The sheet contains six pair of GN steam heralds, 4 white (L & R) plus one pair of silver (L & R) plus one pair of no background white (L&L) for blue caboose x394.  The steam heralds allow for front facing goat on both sides of the tender.  Cost is $2.50 per sheet and add $2.50 for postage (USA).  Ronald Nadeau, 7 Connolly Ave., Saugus, MA 01906.  Email at:  nadeaus@comcast.net  paypal-nadeaus@gis.ne

For Sale:  E-Book Celebrating the Centennial of Glacier National Park:  1910-2010 by John Robert Coy.

MARIAS PASS BOOK HIGHLIGHTS:  History/Creation/Birth of Glacier National Park, History of the "Hi-Line" (Northern Montana), History of the Great Northern Railway, Condensed Histories of places/towns/mileposts from Shelby to Whitefish across Marias Pass; Hill Haters! (James J. Hill, founder of Great Northern Railway); Montana's Most Famous World Heavyweight Championship Boxing Match; "Smokin' em up!" on the Turkey Trail Trains; Sabotage!, Train crash kills engineer; Rootin' Tootin' shooting!; Cowboy kills chair; County Splitters cause fistfights!; My town is especially better than your town!; "Drowning" adversaries into submission; A tale of adventure; Find the "hidden pass" (Marias) in the dead of winter, in sub-zero cold; When the "boom" should have been lowered; "The toughest and meanest town in the world!" - McCarthyville; How not doing your job saves your life; Buried alive and gone forever!; Death of a steam shovel; Ambush in the canyon!; Where are the waterfalls?; The fur-bearing fish duel; Being Polite to stumps; and Blowing the safe!  And more, more, more!

This CD contains updates and many, many more pictures than the original soft bound version!  In addition, fifteen digitally reproduced Great Northern Railway original and historic Blueprints have been attached as a separate file and of course the popular BNSF Guide by Robert Del Grosso.

A single copy of this new, improved, updated, revised CD is $14.99, which includes free shipping.

Write:  GNBOOK@HOTMAIL.COM or Check out eBay and search:  "Glacier National Park".

Historical Information Wanted: 

Wanted:  Help in locating photos of the Western Fruit Express shops at Hillyard (Spokane), WA and any pertinent information for the purpose on inclusion in a reference sheet on the WFE Shops.  The WFE Shops at Hillyard were built in 1924 and a photo and article may well have been published in a Spokane or Hillyard newspaper.  Tyrone Johnsen, 2929 Panorama Drive, Rockford, IL  61109, (815) 397-9274, or tyrone.johnsen@hotmail.com