Great Northern Railway Sign is a reproduction and enhanced historic railroad ad of a Great Northern Railway passenger train with local Indians looking on. Ad features several GN logos. Metal on this Great Northern Railway Sign is .025 gauge aluminum & measures 10″ x 12″, with rounded corners and an 1/8″ hole in each corner. Find other train signs for your man cave or train room and share pictures on our Facebook page !

The Great Northern Railway was one of the largest and most influential railroads in the United States. It operated from 1857 to 1970, spanning from Minnesota to Washington and serving many states in between. One of its most distinctive features was its red locomotives, which contrasted with the green and orange colors of its passenger cars and freight cars. The red locomotives were a symbol of the railway’s power and prestige, as well as its connection to the rich natural resources of the Northwest.

One of the most impressive red locomotives of the Great Northern Railway was the class P-2 4-8-2, also known as the Mountain type. This locomotive was built by Baldwin in 1923 and had a powerful boiler and a large firebox. It was designed to haul heavy passenger trains over the Rocky Mountains and the Cascade Range, reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per hour. The P-2 had a striking appearance, with a large smokebox, a streamlined pilot, and a slanted tender. It also had white extra flags posted on its front, indicating that it was running an extra train that was not on the regular schedule. The P-2 was one of the most successful and reliable locomotives of the Great Northern Railway, serving until the end of steam in 1957.

The Great Northern Railway (reporting mark GN) was an American Class I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill and was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the U.S

In 1970, the Great Northern Railway merged with three other railroads to form the Burlington Northern Railroad, which merged in 1996 with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.