Great Northern Railway Historical Society

GNRHS News

News about and related to the Great Northern Railway Historical Society.


New GNRHS Website

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society is happy to introduce it’s new and improved website. The new website has a fresh modern design and features integration with the most popular social media, like facebook, twitter and YouTube. The website is fully responsive, changing layout automatically to fit computer screens, tablets and smartphones allowing for the Read more


GNRHS on YouTube

With a new website also comes a video channel on YouTube on which we’ll be posting videos about GNRHS activities and of course our own GN SD45 #400 ‘Hustle Muscle’. Bookmark our channel at youtube.com/user/gnrhs1973 We start of with a great video by our resident video-photographer Jeff Otto of Hustle Muscle at St. Paul Union Read more


GNRHS Archives acquires Ora Deal Photo Collection

Ora Deal (1887-1960) loved trains. For many years he lived in Starkweather and Enderlin, ND where as a hobby he took pictures of Soo Line and Great Northern trains. He also belonged to a group called the International Engine Picture Club. Sponsored by The Railroadmens’ Magazine, it offered rail enthusiasts free membership to encourage them Read more