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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081553
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Name Authority File
Collection Membership(s)
- Names Collection - Authorized Headings
- LC Names Collection - General Collection
Variants
- GN
- Great Northern (Firm : U.S.)
- Great Northern Railway Co. (U.S.)
- Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
- Great Northern Ry. Co. (U.S.)
- Northern Company (U.S.)
Later Established Forms
- Burlington Northern Inc.
Related Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cn+80081553#skos:Concept
Earlier Established Forms
- Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
- St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company
Sources
- found: Its Dedication and opening ... 1929.
- found: Its Annual report of the Great Northern Railway Company, 1890.
- found: Prosser, R.S. Rails to the North Star, 1966: p. 135 (Great Northern Railway Company; inc. 1856 as the Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railway Company; reorg. 1864 as Minneapolis and St. Cloud Railroad Company; reorg. 1889 as the Great Northern Railway Company)
- found: MnHi files (variants: Great Northern Railway; Northern Company; Great Northern; GN)
- found: Railroads of NA, 1978 (the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway became part of the Great Northern)
- found: NUCMC data from N.D. Inst. for Reg. Studies for St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. Transfer register, 1882 (St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company organ. 1878; in 1907 purchased by Great Northern)
- found: NUCMC data from University of Montana, K. Ross Toole Archives for Northern Pacific Railway Company records, 1870-1968 (Kootenai Valley Railroad Company; inc. 1898; main line ran from Bonners Ferry to Porthill, Idaho, on the Canadian border; sold to and merged into the Great Northern Railway Company in 1913)
- found: Blackfeet Indians of Glacier National Park, 1947: cover verso (Great Northern Ry. Co.) accompanying booklet cover (Great Northern Railway Co.)
- notfound: Elon Farnsworth and Edward P. Cowles, appellants, vs. the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company, the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company [...], 1875.
Editorial Notes
- [Unused subdivision: Mesabi Division]
- [In 1970 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Pacific Coast Railroad Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company merged under the name Burlington Northern, inc.; old catalog headings: Great Northern Railway, Great Northern Railway Company]
Change Notes
- 1980-08-26: new
- 2012-09-13: revised

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