BN BN Predicessor Histories

Hi all, I know I havent been around in a bit, hope all is well with all of you. I need a bit of help. The BRM (Bellingham Railway Museum) is starting a Quarterly and as the Resource and research coordinator I am planning on a series of articles on the Predicessors of the BN as well as one for the Milwaukee Road. Besides the books that have the histories, does any one know of any decent website or sites that does a quick but through look at all of the RRs. The first will be the GN and NP then SP&S and Milwaukee Road. The Bellingham WA had 3 of the 4 railroads at one time and I will concintrate on these first even though the CB&Q and Frisco were big in the east. I will work on those later. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Also I would like to do one article on the harolds of the GN NP and SP&S any help there as well would be greatly appreiated!!

 

You could try the historical society webpages -

Great Northern - http://www.gnrhs.org/
Northern Pacific - http://www.nprha.org/
Spokane, Portland & Seattle - http://www.spshs.org/res/index.html
Milwaukee Road - http://www.mrha.com/

 

This site lists a simple genealogy. I can't attest to its accuracy.

http://laurent.aublette.free.fr/histo/bn_hist.html

 

Thank you all for the replies, I will post the question in the other forums. I was trying to keep things in one place, but it might be easier to split it up. I will be using the info over time. Thanks again

 

Another reference source you might use for the NP is the book
"Dining Car to the Pacific- The 'Famously Good' food of the Northern Pacific Railway" written by William A.McKenzie
My copy is published by the University of Minnesota Press.
When you are done with the book, you can try some of the fabulous and tasty recipes that made the Northern Pacific dining cars so famous.

Charlie