Picking up orders at Karlsruhe - Artist Proof

Picking up orders at Karlsruhe 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 16 inch high by 20 inch wide print. The mat closest to the image can be placed about 1/16 of an inch into the image, as the “signing and numbering” of this print is inside the image. The mat sizes and frame are of choice for the finished print framed. The crew of an eastbound Great Northern freight train bound for Minneapolis is about to pick up orders’ ‘on the fly’ at the Karlsruhe, North Dakota depot, during a clear, crisp winter’s day in 1959. Today’s engine, diesel units 405A and 405B, is sporting the Great Northern’s famous Omaha Orange and Green paint scheme, introduced to the GN on the railway’s first FT units delivered in 1941. The 405A and 405B are model FT units built by Electro Motive Division in March of 1945. Each unit produced 1350 horsepower, so the two-unit engine shown is 2700 horsepower. EMD’s standard design f