Inside GN’s Red River

Inside GN’s Red River

By Angela Cotey | March 18, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Interior view of coach with passengers seated

Great Northern launched its Red River pocket streamliner between Grand Forks, N.Dak., and St. Paul in June 1950, part of the road’s big postwar push for passengers. The coach seats featured a wheat motif on their upholstery.

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