141 VO1000 c/n 71944, b/d 8/1944 - built for the Great Northern as #141 - sold for scrap 8/26/1963

photo by: Unknown - collection of Mark Laundry
July 1963

"The photo appears to have been taken at the GN Minneapolis Jct, MN engine facility where it must have been sitting in the dead-line. It's believed that the VO1000's 'never' ventured away from the Twin Cities during their lives."

- Thanks to the www.greatnorthernempire.net for this info

1940's artifact:

Great Northern pre cold war magazine advertisement from 1946

The copyrights for all photos are assumed to rest with the photographers.

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