GNRHS News
News about and related to the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.
2025 Convention Registration Now Open!
Planned for Minneapolis-St Paul from Wednesday, September 10 through Saturday, September 13, we are excited about this first-time joint convention with the NP and SP&S historical societies, and hope to see you there. The agenda includes excellent presentations on history and modeling, a train ride out of Osceola, WI, a tour of the Jackson St Read more…
New U25B Models – At Risk
Rapido is willing to produce GN U25B ‘Phase IV’ locomotive models in HO scale, including the extraordinary prototype details described in the earlier post below. Two road numbers are planned, in both DC and DCC. This model has never been produced in HO scale, but will ONLY be available if 100 reservations are made at Read more…
New GN Models Available
The GNRHS Company Store has never-before-offered HO scale versions of the Accurail WFE steel reefer, including the as-delivered 1949 paint scheme! Click here to see… We recently received a member donation of some exceptional brass (and some non-brass) GN models for resale to support the GNRHS mission. We’ve priced them roughly 20% below market, take a look to see Read more…