Izaak Walton Inn - HO

Izaak Walton Inn - HOThe Great Northern Railway Historical Society Company Store is pleased to offer this HO scale kit of the world famous Izaak Walton Inn at Essex Montana. This kit was designed using blueprints from the Great Northern Railway Historical Society's archives. The Izaak Walton Inn at Essex MT, now a recreational hotel, was built by the Addison Miller Company on land leased from the Great Northern Railway to house the three helper crews, up to nine snow

1952 Passenger and 1954 Work/MoW books

RS-36 - GN Track Diagrams

Our model is of the standard 30x30 section house produced by Blair Line Models

the exalted positions of brakeman or fireman were unobtainable

a labor-intensive process

X-637 to X-749

Exhausted city leaders took two years to enlist San Francisco capital to build the narrow gauge line that would bring coal to the city

Great Northern began to build its fleet of 40-foot box cars at the turn of the Twentieth Century

leaving a series of visible recesses about 16 inches tall along the bottom of each side

the Union Pacific’s depot and viaduct separated downtown from the beauty of the river

Real history is often messy

RS-419 - Great Northern 1937-1942 40-foot Wood Sided Box Cars