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GN 3136
Title:  GN 3136
Description:  Built before and during the First World War, this class of 145 2-8-2 Class O-1 locomotives lasted right to the end of GN steam.
Photo Date:  4/11/1954  Upload Date: 11/14/2023 8:23:38 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 3136(2-8-2)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
GN 1376
Title:  GN 1376
Description:  Three steam locomotives not quite at the end of their time. Seen at Fargo, North Dakota in the mid-50's
Photo Date:  6/2/1954  Upload Date: 10/27/2023 9:23:43 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 3136(2-8-2) GN 2510(4-8-2) GN 1376(4-6-2)
Views:  729   Comments: 0
GN 2522
Title:  GN 2522
Description:  Still steaming gently at Fargo ND on the 9th anniversary of D-Day. Approaching its own fate as the GN steam era draws to a close.
Photo Date:  6/6/1955  Upload Date: 10/27/2023 9:24:16 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 2522(4-8-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
GN 2522
Title:  GN 2522
Description:  Pity about the telegraph poles! 2522 moves about the yard at Fargo, ND.
Photo Date:  6/6/1955  Upload Date: 10/27/2023 9:25:17 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 2522(4-8-2)
Views:  565   Comments: 0
GN 824
Title:  GN 824
Description:  Last snows of what was 824s last winter lay on the ground in Fargo, ND. These 1918 built 0-8-0's lasted right to the end of GN steam days.
Photo Date:  4/12/1958  Upload Date: 11/14/2023 8:21:22 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 824(0-8-0)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
GN 815
Title:  GN 815
Description:  One of a batch of 40 0-8-0's from BLW, some survived to the end of GN steam.
Photo Date:  4/21/1958  Upload Date: 10/27/2023 9:22:26 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  GN 815(0-8-0)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
1961 GN Route Map
Title:  1961 GN Route Map
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/29/1961  Upload Date: 9/11/2004 6:10:54 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  David Sommer
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  944   Comments: 0
GN F7A 363C
Title:  GN F7A 363C
Description:  GN 363C and two companions pull, what is likely the Western Star, out of Fargo, ND in June of 1962.
Photo Date:  6/1/1962  Upload Date: 11/13/2018 2:00:13 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Bob Jordan
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Locomotives:  GN 363C(F7A)
Views:  1055   Comments: 1
NP 6001
Title:  NP 6001
Description:  An A-B-A set of freight units idles next to the Hotel Dakotah in Fargo
Photo Date:  8/1/1962  Upload Date: 12/24/2011 11:25:05 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  JA Phillips I I I
Categories:  Roster,Track
Locomotives:  NP 6001A(F3A)
Views:  2386   Comments: 1
Northern Pacific S2 700
Title:  Northern Pacific S2 700
Description:  Northern Pacific S2 700 idles at Fargo ND June 1965. Unknown Photographer Photo.
Photo Date:  6/21/1965  Upload Date: 7/4/2025 3:34:50 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Cody White
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Locomotives:  NP 700(S2)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
GN #1304
Title:  GN #1304
Description:  68 seat coach, built by P-S in 1950 in Lot #6878 to Plan #4109A as 2DB-1DR sleeper-29 seat lounge observauion #1197 PRIEST RIVER, initially assigned to the 1951 WESTERN STAR with the 5 other cars of this layout that were built in 1947 for the EMPIRE BUILDER; these 6 cars were reassigned to the EMPIRE BUILDER in 1955 and rebuilt to 6RM-4DB-1DR sleeper-9 seat mounge observation (Plan #4109K) and renamed to the COULEE-series; the PRIEST RIVER became GRAND COULEE. 5 of the cars, including #1197, were rebuilt in 1967 to flat-ended 68 seat coaches #1300-#1304, and were planned to become BN #6801-#6805, and were s`ld to Amtrak in 1971 with those same numbers. The #1304/#6805 was later leased to the MTA, and was subsequently retired and sold to Howard & Peggy Thornton, and is now in the collection of the Oklahoma Railway Museum as the MISTLETOE II. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Date is approximate. Photographer is unknown.
Photo Date:  5/1/1968  Upload Date: 8/4/2016 12:28:47 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown/Robert Palmer Collection
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  823   Comments: 2
NP puts the F-Unit in FUN!
Title:  NP puts the F-Unit in FUN!
Description:  NP F-units at Fargo, N.D., likely on coal move between N.D. and Cohasset, Minn.
Photo Date:  7/4/1969  Upload Date: 9/24/2011 6:31:25 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  JA Phillips I I I
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station,Signal,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NP 7001D(F9A)
Views:  2469   Comments: 1
NP Alco at Fargo
Title:  NP Alco at Fargo
Description:  Memorial Day, 1970; my older brother Mark and I rode the BN's Western Star to Fargo and hiked around town in a steady drizzle to find trains to shoot. This S2, the first Alco switcher I'd ever seen, was sitting by the former NP depot. Scanned from an Instamatic (126) print.
Photo Date:  5/30/1970  Upload Date: 7/4/2013 5:38:00 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  NP 706(S2)
Views:  1298   Comments: 2
BN 2235
Title:  BN 2235
Description:  Approximate date. New as CBQ 958, BN 2235 was a GP30.
Photo Date:  6/30/1970  Upload Date: 4/27/2024 8:43:12 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
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Locomotives:  BN 2235(GP30)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
Burlington Northern SW1200 106
Title:  Burlington Northern SW1200 106
Description:  Burlington Northern SW1200 106 works at Fargo ND June 1973. Originally built as GN model NC 5101 and rebuilt by EMD into an SW1200 in February 1955. Unknown Photographer Photo.
Photo Date:  6/7/1973  Upload Date: 7/5/2025 11:57:44 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 106(SW1200)
Views:  336   Comments: 0
BN 380
Title:  BN 380
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/12/1973  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 2:23:52 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  David G Kimmel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 380(SW1000)
Views:  881   Comments: 1
BN 460
Title:  BN 460
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/12/1973  Upload Date: 6/9/2018 2:23:56 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  David G Kimmel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 460(NW2)
Views:  770   Comments: 1
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Under threating skies AFT 4449 has arrived in Fargo for another stop on the American Freedom Train nationwide tour.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 1:49:16 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  789   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  AFT 4449 at rest in Fargo.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 1:49:31 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  755   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  View of the entire train less flat cars at the Fargo display location.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 1:50:12 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  807   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Tender of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 1:50:27 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  767   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Workers assemble the platform allowing visitors to look into the cab of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 1:50:48 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Rear view of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 2:27:35 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  734   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  After a short heavy rain the sun is peaking out as AFT 4449 is starting to attract visitors.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 2:27:59 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  742   Comments: 0
AFT 4449
Title:  AFT 4449
Description:  Tender of AFT 4449.
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2025 2:50:10 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AFT 4449(4-8-4) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  756   Comments: 0
GN 1244
Title:  GN 1244
Description:  Diner/Lounge/Coffee Shop - "White Pines Lake"
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 8/28/2016 9:02:30 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  992   Comments: 0
SPS 601
Title:  SPS 601
Description:  Sleeper/Lounge - "Mount St. Helens".
Photo Date:  8/31/1975  Upload Date: 8/10/2016 3:23:30 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1191   Comments: 1
Eastbound local
Title:  Eastbound local
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/19/1994  Upload Date: 1/10/2010 12:37:20 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 1406(GP10)
Views:  1346   Comments: 0
Local ambles east
Title:  Local ambles east
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/30/2004  Upload Date: 4/12/2025 7:21:04 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 2912(GP39E)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
BNSF 4102
Title:  BNSF 4102
Description:  Westbound stack train through downtown Fargo on the KO Sub...
Photo Date:  4/17/2005  Upload Date: 4/18/2005 11:00:59 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4102(C44-9W)
Views:  1130   Comments: 0
Great Northern Caboose
Title:  Great Northern Caboose
Description:  Looks freshly restored...
Photo Date:  4/17/2005  Upload Date: 4/18/2005 11:01:03 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  533   Comments: 2
Great Northern Restaurant kitchen
Title:  Great Northern Restaurant kitchen
Description:  Great Northern Restaurant kitchen-Former Depot
Photo Date:  6/27/2005  Upload Date: 7/1/2005 11:36:47 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Keith Belk
Categories: 
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Views:  717   Comments: 0
Great Northern Restaurant-Former Depot
Title:  Great Northern Restaurant-Former Depot
Description:  Great Northern Restaurant-Former Depot
Photo Date:  6/27/2005  Upload Date: 7/1/2005 11:37:08 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Keith Belk
Categories: 
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Views:  1696   Comments: 1
BNSF 4839
Title:  BNSF 4839
Description:  Empty coal through downtown Fargo at Broadway and Main...
Photo Date:  7/19/2005  Upload Date: 7/20/2005 3:06:53 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4839(C44-9W) BNSF 9206(SD60M)
Views:  1534   Comments: 0
BNSF 7073
Title:  BNSF 7073
Description:  Westbound stack train in downtown Fargo. BNSF 100 is second out...
Photo Date:  7/19/2005  Upload Date: 7/20/2005 3:06:53 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 100(GP60M) BNSF 7073(SD40-2)
Views:  3011   Comments: 3
NSR 202 "Wenonah"
Title:  NSR 202 "Wenonah"
Description:  NSR 202 "Wehonah" at Fargo, ND
Photo Date:  7/19/2005  Upload Date: 7/13/2009 2:19:48 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Robert Ulberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  1109   Comments: 0
NSR 203 !Nokomis"
Title:  NSR 203 !Nokomis"
Description:  NSR 203 "Nokomis" at Fargo, ND
Photo Date:  7/19/2005  Upload Date: 7/13/2009 2:20:14 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Robert Ulberg
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  975   Comments: 0
BNSF 4492
Title:  BNSF 4492
Description:  Wider angle view of an eastbound stacker racing through downtown Fargo.
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/4/2005 9:27:50 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4492(C44-9W)
Views:  889   Comments: 0
BNSF 4492
Title:  BNSF 4492
Description:  Eastbound double stack rips through downtown Fargo. Note the billboard at the right of the frame: it's on N.P. Ave, named after the Northern Pacific. Fargo is rich in railroad hisotry and is proud if its heritage as such...
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/3/2005 4:06:01 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 4492(C44-9W)
Views:  891   Comments: 1
BNSF 6829
Title:  BNSF 6829
Description:  A brief break in the clouds allows for some good light on this westbound stacker racing through downtown Fargo...
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 9/24/2005 1:44:50 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 6829(SD40-2) NS 8910(C40-9W)
Views:  1376   Comments: 2
BNSF 8075
Title:  BNSF 8075
Description:  Second of three eastbounds to blast through Fargo, this pig train has a GP60B second out...
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 5:14:10 AM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8075(SD40-2)
Views:  981   Comments: 1
BNSF 9654
Title:  BNSF 9654
Description:  Last of 3 eastbounds to roll through downtown Fargo on a busy afternoon. I tried some B&W to counter the clouds/direction of movement...
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/16/2005 3:02:44 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9654(SD70MAC)
Views:  841   Comments: 0
MNN 1483
Title:  MNN 1483
Description:  Marked with Minnesota Northern Railroad letters, this neat high-nose Geep just dropped a cut of coal empties for the BNSF.
Photo Date:  12/26/2005  Upload Date: 12/26/2005 8:26:21 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNN 1483(GP9)
Views:  1174   Comments: 2
OTVR 3900
Title:  OTVR 3900
Description:  Otter Tail Valley Railroad brought coal emtpies from the Fergus Falls area north to Fargo to interchange with the BNSF.
Photo Date:  12/26/2005  Upload Date: 12/26/2005 8:26:19 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  OTVR 3900(GP39-2)
Views:  1506   Comments: 2
BNSF 8299
Title:  BNSF 8299
Description:  Crossing the Red River of the North, leaving MN and entering ND with empty coal...
Photo Date:  1/22/2006  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 2:29:24 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8205(SD75M) BNSF 8299(SD75I) BNSF 9293(SD60M)
Views:  2266   Comments: 3
BNSF 9466
Title:  BNSF 9466
Description:  Loaded coal underway again in downtown Fargo...
Photo Date:  1/22/2006  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 2:29:26 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Chris Paulhamus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9466(SD70MAC)
Views:  1239   Comments: 2
BNSF 8072
Title:  BNSF 8072
Description:  A couple of oldies lead this stack train to the Dilworth yard for a crew change
Photo Date:  2/5/2006  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:14:46 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 8072(SD40-2) CN 5416(SD50F)
Views:  1497   Comments: 1
MNN 1463
Title:  MNN 1463
Description:  Four geeps beloning to the Otter Tail Valley Railroad (but still lettered for Minnesota Northern Railroad) wait in BNSF's Fargo yard for their chance to haul a loaded coal train south onto their own track
Photo Date:  4/8/2006  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 6:47:08 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MNN 1463(GP9)
Views:  1369   Comments: 1
EMD 9040
Title:  EMD 9040
Description:  After cresting at 37.18 feet, the 5th highest level in history, the level of the Red River when I took this photo was 34.28 feet.
Photo Date:  4/8/2006  Upload Date: 6/8/2006 4:14:45 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EMDX 9040(SD60) BNSF 6894(SD40-2)
Views:  1619   Comments: 1
Northern Pacific Depot built 1898
Title:  Northern Pacific Depot built 1898
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/14/2006  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 4:12:24 PM
Location:  Fargo, ND
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  522   Comments: 1


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