Built in the
late 1950s for Great Northern Railway, this 50’ boxcar with Bettendorf
trucks was used for lumber and plywood service, and was originally
painted in the vermilion red scheme before being repainted in
the Big Sky Blue scheme in the late 1960s. Great Northern was
a Class 1 railroad founded in 1881 and eventually was merged with
Northern Pacific, and others, to form Burlington Northern Railroad
in 1970.