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As of early November 2024, Bowser is expecting to receive the GN RS-3 models that many of you have reserved during the month of March 2025. Bowser will then ship to us. We will ship to you when we have them, which could be in April. Mac McCulloch

GN 72500 series gondola side stake reinforcement stakes are back in stock. Each bag contains FIVE stakes, so you have a spare just in case! Mac

Add some color to your 1949 to 1974 freight trains! The GNRHS Company Store is offering HO scale models of refrigerator cars WFEX 68400 to 68649 in three correct paint schemes typical of their time. These custom painted models by Accurail are excellent representations of cars WFEX 68400 to 68649 built by Pacific Car and Foundry in 1949, the last hinged door, ice cooled refrigerator cars purchased by WFE.  First is the as built scheme with optic style lettering, boxcar red roof, ends, yellow sides and kickplates below the door, black hardware including fan generator housing at BL and AR corners above the...

Our Accurail model is numbered in series GN 173800-999, the 200-car lot of 1966-67.  GN cars had the ‘phase I’ body style with a stiffening rib along the upper portion of the car side, and carried 30-inch round roof hatches. They were purchased to haul cement, bentonite clay, and silica sand. Cement is a binder that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. The most common type, Portland cement is very dense, weighing 85 pounds per cubic foot. Significant volumes of cement were moving at the time to support Department of Defense contracts for air fields and...

RS 327 entitled 'Great Northern Research References' a list of articles about the Great Northern Railway available on the Internet is now FREE. It is a source for authors of Reference Sheets, and non-authors may use it for their information.