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| Street View There is no problem with treelines blocking the view in this area. |
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| Monte Jones posted Minot, N.D. 1936 Gassman Coulee Trestle Bridge Kent Farley: This photograph appears in the books "Lines West" by Charles R Wood and "Great Northern Lines East" by Patrick C Dorin. The locomotive is identified as a simple articulated Mallet (pronounced mal-lay'), an R-2 class on the Great Northern. The sixteen R-2 class locomotives were all built by Great Northern and were rated at 153,000 lbs. of tractive effort and measured nearly 120' over the coupler faces. Of the fourteen earlier class R-1's four were built by Baldwin and ten by the GN. They all remained in service into the 1950's. The GN had the biggest and, in terms of tractive effort, the most powerful simple articulateds in the world. (Information taken from "The Great Northern Railway, A Pictorial Study by Charles & Dorothy Wood".) Daniel A. Mitchell: As others have stated, it's a GN Class R2, a 2-8-8-2 simple articulated. Tom Lyman shared |
The girders between the towers are deeper than the ones on the towers.
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| I Love Trains posted photo courtesy of Gregory Owen Johnson Lynn Johnson: gasmann coulee William Ellis shared Quintuple header, anyone? William Nelson: I believe this is a publicity photo of the first Burlington Northern train operating with locomotives ordered by the Spokane Portland in Seattle railroad but painted in Burlington Northern. They are indeed crossing The trestle near Minot North Dakota and unlike today when they were locomotives in a consist back then they were all online unless they were broken..... No isolating locomotives for fuel conservation in those days that crap didn't start until about 10 years ago. |
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| Screenshot @ -0:33 from video posted by Justin Nelson Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder crossing the Gassman Coulee trestle, just west of Minot, ND this morning. [Aug 18, 2018] |
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| Mark Mcgowan posted The Great Northern's 1,609 foot Gassman Coulee trestle near Minot, N.D. circa 1890. [Comments say it collapsed in 1896 because of high winds.] Greg Bahn: Two men are standing on top of the rail cars. Are these the brakeman? Mark Mcgowan: Greg Bahn probably. |
Great Northern Railway Historical Society posted two photos with the comment:
This date in Great Northern Railway History- August 14th, 1898:Wind destroys the wooden Gassman Coulee Trestle, just West of Minot.It was replaced soon after with the steel trestle that still carries traffic today.
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| Jeremy Siembida posted Gassman Coulee Trestle, west of Minot, ND on the old GN. [The posting also has a video of an Amtrak train crossing the trestle.] |
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| Webb Rail LLC - WEBX posted Minot The Magic City. Former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built dome/coach 549 (WEBX 801045) and former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) held the markers on Amtrak Train 7 (Empire Builder) on Saturday, August 2, 2021. The Gassman Coulee Trestle in Minot, North Dakota is 1,792 feet long and 117 feet above ground level at its tallest point. This span served the Great Northern Railway (today owned by BNSF), which was a major factor in the overnight development of Minot from a small town into a major city in the area, and thus the nickname "Magic City". The Webb Rail cars would continue through Spokane, Washington on Amtrak Train 27, and arrive in Portland, Oregon about 25 hours later. Tag Webb Rail LLC - WEBX or drop us a DM with any photos you caught of us underway. We love to see them! Photo credit: Marc Glucksman/River Rail Photo Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2mhawVr More on the Webb Rail fleet at www.webbrail.com Marc Glucksman shared |
Jeremy Siembida Nice catch. That was the first double load I have seen. I bagged it 10 miles west of here.
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The golden color out right now is a consolation prize for the brutal winters here; change my mind...
Portland, OR bound automobiles head west over Gassman Coulee Trestle, just a few miles west of Minot. Photo from private property, with permission.
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| Jeremy Siembida posted A hot westbound stack, heavy with UPS, FedEx and other priority traffic storms west over Gassman Coulee. Jeremy Siembida  So I had great light for eastbounds and the only eastbound (which I could see sitting at CP Gassman) zwas waiting on a /fleet/ of westbounds. Oh well.. |
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| Bruce Schwierske posted A little stormy around Minot this morning as this BNSF westbound stack train crosses the Gassman Coulee bridge. 8/13/2020 Jeremy Siembida Made the best out of the day with that one. Nice pop of color. |
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| Jeremy Siembida posted Golden hour local westbound over Gassman Coulee Trestle. |
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| Loren Aandahl posted This should be familiar to all of you. The Gassman Coulee bridge. My picture from August 1973. |
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| Loren Aandahl posted Gassman Coulee. My photo from August 1973. Jeremy Siembida: Eastbound, this spot is private property now. |
Jeremy Siembida posted two photos with the comment: " 'Up a Creek' South Branch Coulee Creek flows near the iconic Gassman Coulee Trestle, and in winter, the water is stiff enough to give new angles without getting wet. (Bonus points if you caught Thumper's pun) In this view, a double grain load grinds out of Minot under increasing snow flurries, following a night of freezing rain."
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Jeremy Siembida posted two photos with the comment: "Eastbound manifest freight drifts across Gassman Coulee at sunset."
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I wonder when the girders were replaced. Today's girders are thicker between the towers than on top of the towers.
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| 1 of several photos from a BNSF press release about replacing the deck (source) Gassman Coulee Trestle built in 1899 is shown in a 1909 postcard. [A Flickr photo with a crane and two trucks on the trestle] The deck is up to 120' above the ground. |
Jeremy Siembida Flickr 2019 Photo (source) "Just another boring, overcast view of Gassman Coulee Trestle, from private property with permission. I was breaking in my new superwide 14mm lens."
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