Great Northern Steam Locomotive 1480, a Class H-4, a 4-6-2, built by Lima in 1914, 23-1/2"x30" cylinders, 73" drivers, 210 psi steam pressure, 251,200 pounds weight, 35,690 pounds tractive effort, leading the northbound local to Colville, Kettle Falls, and Marcus, Washington. It connected at Marcus to Nelson, British Columbia and to Republic and Grand Forks, British Columbia, these were mainline passenger power in the late teens and up to about 1927 when the Great Northern Railway got the 2500-2527 Mountain engines. Taken at an unknown location. From the David Emerson Collection, a Maynard Rikerd photo, undated.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1480 Marcus, Washington locomotive with freight train, Class H-4, at Hillyard, Washington, 1935.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1478 at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1934.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1477 with passenger train, Class H-4, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1931.

Great Northern steam locomotive 1475 at Devils Lake, North Dakota in 1943.

Great Northern steam locomotive 1470 at Devils Lake, North Dakota in 1916.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1469, Class H-4, undated.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1468, Class H-4, undated.

Great Northern steam locomotive 1465 in Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Great Northern Steam Locomotive Number 1465 at Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1946.