Northern Pacific Industry Tracks in the Vicinity of Great Northern Tracks, 1960

This series consists of photographs of the Great Northern Railway's facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 19, are referred to by the letter L in testimony, and were taken by Arnold M. Strommen. Mr. Strommen was employed as a locomotive engineer for the Great Northern in the Willmar, Minnesota Seniority District and was local chairman of Lodge 95 of the BLF&E. These photographs were taken on October 31, 1960, when Mr. Strommen worked on through freight service between Willmar and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Great Northern Railway was a class I railroad, operating from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington. The Great Northern's (GN) route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the United States. The photographs in this series depict the GN's facilities in Minnesota, including the union yards at Minneapolis Junction and the industries served by the GN, including various grain elevators.