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The Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store is pleased to offer this HO scale kit of the world-famous Izaak Walton Inn at Essex Montana. This kit was designed using blueprints from the Great Northern Railway Historical Society's archives.  The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex MT, now a recreational hotel, was built by the Addison Miller Company on land leased from the Great Northern Railway to house the three helper crews, up to nine snow fighting crews and three or four Division Officers often assigned to snow fighting duties in the winter. Opened in 1939, it was the last of...

Thanks to John Westley and John Greene we have HO models of Heater Cars 6 and 7 now in the store! Great Northern used heater cars with passenger trains running though the New Cascade Tunnel completed in January of 1929. Trains transiting the 7.79-mile-long tunnel could not use steam power because of toxic gas ventilation problems, and the Z-1 and Y-1 electrics ordered for tunnel service did not have steam generators, so steam for heating and hot water had to be provided by “steam heater cars”. See GNRHS Reference Sheet 358, March, 2010 for more background. Increasing passenger traffic during...

We are pleased to announce that we have added to the store FIVE different sets of decals for nominal 50-foot flat cars. All cars were built as plain flats and converted to TOFC service beginning in 1955.  The first set is for cars 60045 to 60057 which were 52' long ACF cars built in 1945. The second set is for cars 60060 to 60076 which were 53' 6" long cars built by PC&F. The third set is for cars 60077 to 60096 which were 53' 6" long cars built by PC&F. The fourth set is for cars 60200 to 60224...

We just received a shipment of 40 foot express cars #200-201. Get 'em while we got 'em!

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...