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Great Northern Railway Weed Spray Car X7603 was built at St. Cloud in June of 1963 from box car 45458, a 1937 AAR design steel frame, end, and roof, but wood sided, 40’-6” inside length box car. It was the last weed spray car built by Great Northern. Our model X7603 Weed Sprayer kit is a 3D printed kit suited for those experienced with building craftsman kits. The kit includes Tichy grabs, Plano roof walk, Tahoe Model Works truck frames, wire, screws, window material, decals, and a grab iron bending jig. Paint, couplers, wheel sets, and weights are not included....

  We are now taking preorders at https://gnrhs.myshopify.com/collections/engines for three Great Northern Railway RS-3s, numbers 220, 223 and 227. By special arrangement with Bowser, engine number 227 is available exclusively at the GNRHS Company Store. All will be painted in the original Orange and Green paint scheme with the Empire Builder style of lettering. All engine numbers Bowser is offering are from the first lot of eight units, numbers 197-199, and 220-224, which arrived in May of 1950. Early in 1953, units 197, 198 and 199 were renumbered to 225, 226 and 227 respectively. The Great Northern Railway Historical Society has advised...

These ready-to-run HO scale models of Great Northern 10’ 6” inside height, 40’ 6” inside length, 3900 cubic foot box cars by Rapido are correctly numbered in series 21450 to 21939 built at St. Cloud in 1953 with early dreadnaught ends, and 5000-5499 built at St. Cloud in 1955 with late dreadnaught ends. These cars provided 3900 cubic feet of space compared with 10’ 2” IH, 3715 cubic feet for cars built in 1949 and 1951. These 10’ 6” cars feature straight side sills that give the cars a husky look that is visibly different than their predecessors. Both groups...

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store announces its Christmas Sale running from now through Christmas 2023.  All H-O Scale 40 foot long Orange and Green refrigerated TOFC trailers, currently available in three road numbers, are sale priced at $4.95, which is 50% off. All H-O scale TOFC decals are marked down to a flat $2.00 from $4.00, $3.50, or $3.00. The Republic Depot in both H-O Scale and N Scale, is marked down 20%. Two books; ‘Rails of the Northwest Through Time,’ and ‘Snowsheds and Train Orders – Marias Pass Operations 1950s – 1980s.’ are marked down 20%....

ALL of our steam era passenger cars are now being closed out. The prices you see are 20% off previous list prices. These cars are all made by Bethlehem Car Works and will NOT be re-run, so if you want them, get them now! Members may take an additional 10% discount off marked price.