Lively World of Great Northern (1960s) Part 1

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A documentary produced by Great Northern Railway in the late 1960s
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[@UCSPanther20]

Their "big sky blue" (introduced 1967) is one of my favorite railroad liveries.

[@newjackdoug]

great video! groovy music! so much of what used to be produced in the United States now occurs elsewhere.

[@htc6600]

I love the ending of this film with the boxcar door closing and then the geep pulling the car away.

[@htc6600]

TheWoodsmanhunter: James J. Hill always wanted to merge GN, NP and CB&Q. He tried to long before the '60's with the Northern Securities Company. The BN merger was about marrying the best parts of three railroads to create the best possible railroad from Chicago to the Pacific Coast and had nothing to do with taxes. It was about increasing ton miles with minimum train miles, a Hill dictum and the biggest reason why GN was so successful.

[@Brendon_John_Harrison]

Later BNSF

[@mafarnz]

Agreed, it's so cool to see the old F units, and the mixed GN paint. Very cool old film.

[@Texasrailfan9021]

I’m A UP/BNSF Railfan/Foamer But This Is Great in the 60’s!

[@UCSPanther20]

I think that is the legendary GN #400 aka "Hustle Muscle" at 1:41. The first production EMD SD45 that rolled off the line, and is fully preserved and 100% operable.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

UCSPanther20 ........and sitting out in the middle of the Northtown departure yard just north of Minneapolis, totally accessible to taggers and thieves 5/2018.

[@bdtubbs]

Best vid. on Utube. Period.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

@8:53 - Weyerhaeuser sighting - my late father spent all 43 years of his professional life with that one company, involved in the financial management of their R&D activities, and all but five years of that were spent within Washington State. Like everything else, WeyCo is nothing like it once was, even in the late '70s to late '90s, when I was a young boy/young-ish adult. 😢

[@bradjames6748]

I worked for Macmillan bloedel their Canadian competitor until weyerhauser took us over closed all the mills and fired everyone....

[@Robbi496]

I miss cabooses, they were no longer necessary, but I still miss them

[@bnsffreighttrain]

Awesome to see Great Northern in action!

[@jschmid]

excllent videos, i never thought I would find someonthing like this ononle, or even youtube! ty for posting this, iI really like how the conductor gets onto the locomotive at 7:52 ! :)

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

@sd39hogger I volunteered out at a railway museum last year as the radio girl in the cab, and the engineer of the u-Boat I was assigned to actually has a class he teaches on how to properly do that. Although we're not supposed to do it, since that was his generation he taught me anyways :D

[@bertxblitzkrieg]

Empty well cars were stored on the Casco sub between gunn and hibbing for quite some time... i often thought it would be pretty cool that when they moved them, they'd move all however many miles of them at once. that'd be a huge train.

[@seankolker]

Did`nt know such awesome GN video existed.

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

In 2005 I did see a Great Northern 4-Bay High Sided Hopper in the original G.N. Scheme applied in 1966 just before Big Sky Blue. I wonder if they are sitting in railyards today.

[@whiteknightcat]

Ah, the good old days when black horn-rim glasses, white shirts, and narrow ties was the height of business fashion.

[@mikeggg5671]

good old days, yes - but ewww. I prefer the 30s-early 50s, when a man could still wear a double-breasted jacket, and had a handkerchief for every tie. When men wore fedoras...

[@KTrainz]

just saw a gn hopper in a cn mixed freight passing by spences bridge B.C.

[@MrJimmybgood]

i rember as a boy watching great northern in the swithing yard here in spokane washington. real cool, i still love it.

[@judgedredd8657]

we still have big blue centerbeams on CN

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

The all Big Sky Blue passenger train must have been a short lived sight since BN and AMTRAK came in soon after this film was produced.

[@Brendon_John_Harrison]

Now BNSF

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

The Great Northern Exterior-Braced 50' Box Cars in Big Sky Blue built in the late 1960's lasted in that paint scheme at least into the late 1990's. Have you seen a GN Big Sky Blue Box Car lately?

[@daylightbigboy]

YEAH! Computers with individual transistors (not ICs) and Big Sky Blue!

[@skinnyshit8888]

@greenwaterhose that is a geep! you can tell by the axle count. I saw double axles. SDs have triple axles!

[@Petermax99]

You can still see GN cars from time to time watch the North Towns Yards in Minneapolis your bound to see one.

[@bigrezide]

This music is cool as hell! Anyone know the the composer?

[@progx8679]

Wow look at those new fangled computer gizmo's !!!!! Lol we had sure come a long way ! But I shor miss 1st and 2nd Gen diesels !!!! Everything looks the same now ! Also NO Graffiti on the freight cars !!! I wonder how many cans of spray paint are stolen each year !!??

[@kenmartin9227]

No cars with taggers marked...nice

[@tandemcompound2]

nice ray of sunshine with new blue cars just before GN went bust.

[@SpecificationR]

wow that yard worker at 7:53 has balls

[@cbalducc]

What yard is featured here?

[@kyleecarlson9912]

Ģavin yard Minot,N D

[@andreluisdasilvadantas7413]

New Boeing 747 Seattle year vídeo 1968?

[@paulnguyen8910]

Since 1987, Great Northern is today's BNSF Railways.

[@chooch1995]

Since 1996….& part of it, yes….

[@paulnguyen8910]

​@@chooch1995 Actually, it was 1970. When Burlington bought the Great Northern, they merged into Burlington Northern. By 1996, when Santa Fe bought BN, it merged into BNSF Railways.

[@alfie9876]

7:51 is a no no these days

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

John McAfee worked on a computer system much like the one in this, for MoPac. And the rest is history.

[@needlenosekw]

Friend of mine started out on the GN.. he retired with bnsf... of course he said BN and bnsf sucked are lol

[@seankolker]

It`s one of many "deadly decisions" on todays railroads,on BNSF an official see you do that your ass is out the door.

[@AllanLoveJr]

And without the Trucks. These Trains would just sit in the Rail yards.