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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.

We now have these relatively large wood depots in stock. They are unique in their one and one half story bay window design.  The first of these were built in Odessa, WA in 1909. Andrew Klamka is now (mid 2022) doing a Reference Sheet on the Lakota ND depot which was built in 1910. These are for the modeler with a bit of space and who wants to indicate that his town is of some importance.

Our new N scale 50,000 gallon water tank is now in stock. This is the result of a long development process that has now reached fruition. Check them out!