by Mary Tastad | May 3, 2018 | journal, North Dakota history, Then and now
Editor’s note about the Great Northern Rail car: Several years ago, we investigated a site along Highway 2, west of Minot, North Dakota. It took some digging and neighborly visiting to get the story of the Northern Pacific, later a Great Northern rail car,...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 26, 2018 | journal, North Dakota history, Places to go, Then and now, Things To Do
Hard Labor More than 100 years ago, local farmers and ranchers hired on to dig by hand the Cartwright Tunnel for the Great Northern Railroad. It was part of its Montana Eastern Railway, an unfinished rail line that ran west of here in Montana. Using dynamite to...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 19, 2018 | North Dakota history, North Dakota scenery, Places to go, Then and now
River Bend Overlook, Theodore Roosevelt National Park Looking forward to getting back to the Oxbow Overlook at the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Goal: Exactly line up a shot as it was taken when the Civilian Conservation Corps built the famous...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 12, 2018 | North Dakota history, Small towns, Then and now, Watford City
Then Things change. And that’s as true as true in Watford City. When the Northern Pacific plotted the new town there were just a handful of businesses scattered on the west edge of Main Street. Today, traffic through and around town is a challenge. 103 years...
by Mary Tastad | Apr 5, 2018 | journal, Medora, Mild-mannered Explorers, North Dakota history, Places to go, Then and now, Things To Do
Then We love finding old photos and doing our best to locate the scene so we can duplicate the shot. When the weather was warm enough for a picnic, we headed to the East Entrance of the South Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It’s a short jaunt,...
