The Montana Central: Copper, Coal and the Empire Builder

The Montana Central: Copper, Coal and the Empire BuilderBy Bill & Jan Taylor. Canadian born James Jerome Hill, with his associates, purchased the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad and reorganized it as the Saint Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway in 1879. The Manitoba was a successful regional grain carrier. In 1884, Hill's friend Paris Gibson, founding father of Great Falls, invited him to visit Montana. While there, he toured the Rocky Mountain front between Great Falls and Butte looking for investment

were built by the Great Northern between August 1941 and March 1945 at St

of the Mesabi range

In 1906 the lumber company began a logging railroad that ran south of the GN for about a mile and crossed the railroad and the Skykomish River on a wooden Howe Truss bridge just east of the GN wye

wooden road bridges were replaced with concrete and steel structures

with stone wing walls is a model of a Great Northern Railway structure near Nora Minnesota on the line between St

funding many worthy projects to preserve and/or restore former Great Northern property and artifacts

The kit represents an important railroad structure that was built by the score and shipped by flatcar to towns all along the GN lines

285 swing motion caboose trucks

This volume includes original documents

Armbruster

The model is suitable for any modeling era from 1920s to the late 1950s

X – 447 through X – 576 were built 1920 – 1924