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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...