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Great Northern First Cascade Tunnel, Washington State, 1900

Great Northern First Cascade Tunnel, 2.6 miles long at an elevation of 3,400 feet, opened to trains on December 20, 1900. This photograph was used in an article of the 1980 Burlington Northern Employees magazine entitled "Cascade Tunnel, Washington". From the David Emerson Collection, taken by an unknown photographer in 1900.

Great Northern Rail Detector Car 2 at Spokane, Washington, 1934

Great Northern Rail Detector Car 2, believed to be the first rail detector car used on the Great Northern Railway, jointly owned by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy. The tracks in background were part of the Union Pacific West Spokane Yards, Spokane, Washington. From the David Emerson Collection, a Maynard Rikerd photo taken in 1934.

Rikerd, Maynard

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