GN Open Deck Four Span Trestle HO

GN Open Deck Four Span Trestle HOOpen Deck Four Span Trestle. Short, low, and simple wooden trestles were found almost everywhere. Great Northerns default trestle design was open deck, as is this model. Timber was abundant in Minnesota and West of the crest of the Rocky Mountains. Wood was cheap and trestles were quick and easy to construct. They were favored in initial construction for those reasons. Trestles were used to cross virtually any low spot and a creek or single lane

the lands in the Mesabi were placed in a trust

storage sheds or bunkhouses

were built between 1907 and 1930

the trust's last president with a request to write the book and the promise of exclusive access to GNIOP's archives and former senior managers

Portable bunk houses could be built off-site and moved to any desired location on a standard flat car

Our HO scale Section Foreman's House kit was designed from standard Great Northern plans from the GNRHS archives

and then shipped by rail to the towns needing them

and at times the freight door was replaced by a plain entry door and/or a window

Embroidered polo shirt with the Official GNRHS logo embroidered

Most people with an interest in the Great Northern Railway know that the railway hauled prodigious tonnages of raw iron ore

Examination of paint layers on the boards in the depot in Dalton

or later motorized speeders