The Empire Builder - Artist Proof

The Empire Builder is one of six color prints by well known artist Mr. Larry Fisher offered in the GNRHS Company Store. The image is a high quality 26 inch high by 17 inch wide print. The mat closest to the image should be placed just under the signature and the numbering on the print. The mat sizes and frame are of choice for the finished print framed. This is a signed and numbered Artist Proof, and there are only a few left! In 1957 Great Northern’s EMPIRE BUILDER, eastbound No. 32, winds through the snow sheds of Marias Pass in northwestern Montana skirting the base of the Main Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Continental Divide is a few miles ahead at Summit.  EMD F3A No. 352-C, built late in 1947, is on point of this A-B-B-A, four-unit engine climbing 14 miles up a 1.8% grade. Passing through snowshed 10.7 at MP 1163.4 and entering a ‘clear block’ the four F units will soon be drifting down to the foot hills of central Montana on the low stress running of the 1% descending grade.