Palisades AFEs

This is a summary to the "Applications For Expenditures" (AFE) files which were project files for all purchases, construction or removal of facilities or equipment from Great Northern property. These files sometimes contain correspondence, invoices, blueprints and other project information, and often contain insight into events or changes in a specific area at a point in time.

As a summary, it does give a look into the changes made over the years.

From the GN-NP Archives.

1911    Install 4975 foot ROW fence 1/4 mile west

1912    Install wooden mail crane 4 miles east

1915    Remove mail crane

1916    Install water line

1919    Construct temporary road crossing

1920    Purchase property from NP

1922    Install public crossing

1922    Install car body

1922    Retire car body

1926    Palisades to Alstown: Furnish and place 20000 second hand tie plates, replacing glendon tie plates on curves

1927    Retire filled bridge 8

1929    Construct private crossing near depot

1931    Construct private crossing

1932    Renew timbering-Tunnel 1

1932    Construct public crossing

1933    Install ROW fence

1936    Retire depot

1937    Move telephone to shelter shed

1945    Renew timbers in Tunnel 1

1946    Electric lights in section house

1947    Steel span-bridge 2

1947    Replace bridge 3

1949    Repair flood damage-steel span-bridge 2

1952    Repair Tunnel 1

1960    Remove public crossing

1962    Renew bridge 9

1964    Renew bridge 14

1964    Fill bridge 4

1966    Fill 2 west spans bridge 2