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U25B Preorder window is closed
We placed our orders with Rapido May 5, 2026. The preorder window is closed, with total sales of 110 units vs our 100 unit order minimum. Thank you for your support! Mac
GN 35000 SERIES 50 FOOT STEEL DOUBLE SLIDING DOOR CARS HAVE ARRIVED
These GN 35000 series cars by Moloco are models of 50’ 6” inside length St. Cloud built steel double sliding door box cars with a 15-foot clear opening. The left sliding door was 7 feet wide, and the right sliding door was 8 feet wide, GST code B7. During 1956 Great Northern’s St. Cloud shops began a multiple year project to build 50’ 6”, 50-ton capacity cars, with wide side doors. All 1,000 of the 35000 series cars had a distinctive triangular reinforcing gusset adjacent to the doors. Capacity was 100,000 pounds as built, increased to 110,000 pounds in 1963....
New Book 'Life Along the Tracks'
Life Along the Tracks is an 'I was there' type book about the career of Mike McLaughlin who rode NP and MILW switch engines in Seattle in the early 1950's. In 1955 at age 17 Mike went to work as a GN section man in the Seattle area, and in a not really successful effort to escape shovel work, soon went to the Signal Department of the GN in Western Washington. The book is a collection of short stories from his career on the GN, the Rock Island, and the Rio Grande, and as Traffic Manager for two large rail...
RS-3 #227 Update
With Christmas closing in, I would like to announce that arrival of this unit is imminent, but it is not. I can announce that they are now in production, which means they should be here in June of 2026.
70 TON PS-2 3215 CUBIC FOOT COVERED HOPPER CARS BUILT 1960
The Great Northern Railway Historical Society is pleased to announce that we have purchased Tangent Scale Models remaining stock of HO scale Pullman-Standard PS-2 design 3215 cuft. covered hopper cars painted to represent GN 71505 to 71579, 75 cars built in 1960 to haul grain mill products. The model is painted in the gray scheme that these cars were delivered in and is appropriately stenciled including the ‘Great Northern’ herald. Total PS-2 production exceeded 1,400 cars in various cubic capacities between 1958 and 1962. The models feature correct GN roof details including: see-through Apex-style running board and ‘early-style’ round roof hatches,...