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We have placed in the store models of Great Northern 12 panel box cars by InterMountain in five different paint schemes the Great Northern actually used, each with six road numbers. The models are painted: Vermillion red with slanted ‘Great Northern’ to the right of the door, Vermillion red with 'Empire Builder" lettering, Glacier green  with 'Empire Builder" lettering, Big Sky Blue, and Pullman Green express box cars that operated in passenger trains. Great Northern built 4,000 of these 12 panel 40' 6" Inside Length box cars at St Cloud in 1948, 1949 and 1951, 25 of which were express box cars.  When production of...

We are pleased to now have Great Northern first class heavy weight coach kits This kit represents Great Northern first class coaches numbered 950 through 973 and 977.  These cars were received in September and October 1914 from the Barney & Smith Car Company as all steel first class coaches. Their original numbers were 4500 through 4523 and 4527. They were air conditioned from 1935 through 1938 and operated on the Empire Builder until 1938. They were used system wide beginning in 1938, and a few were assigned to the Cascadian from about 1938 until 1954. Several of the cars in...

The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company store is pleased to announce that it has reduced the price of selected hard cover books, has added a new book by Earl Currie, and is running a Christmas sale on all books in stock. We have reduced the price of Great Northern Iron: James J. Hill’s 109-year Mining Trust by James A Stolpestad from $60 to $34.95, and Rocky’s Rail: A Spokane Division Trainman 1960-2004 by John Langlot from $50 to $34.95. These prices match the $34.95 of The Rusty Dusty: Great Northern’s W-O Branch by Mac McCulloch. These are all large...

This kit by Hidden River Manufacturing is a product I have wanted to add to the store for a long time. It took some digging in the archives to find the plan, but find them we did. This is a key structure for your small engine terminal, especially if you are fond of branch lines. Many were built at one end or the other of the North Dakota 'picket fence' grain gathering branch lines. They were not exclusive to North Dakota however.  The kit is designed to be easily built as a two stall house if you prefer the smaller...

We just received a shipment of HO Scale C6, 100 ton, 4650 cubic foot, ACF Center Flow design covered hopper cars, gray with correct numbers for cars built in 1966. These cars were used to transport grain, and GN ended up with several hundred cars of this design. Models by InterMountain and are available in six different car numbers.