All Aboard! It even enjoyed an important connection with the Western Pacific in Northern California. We offer an exciting variety of guided river trips along the southern boundary of Glacier National Park so thereâs a raft trip for everyone. Just months after it opened the country slipped into its worst-ever depression following the stock market crash of 1929. No longer needed for passenger service with Amtrak's arrival, a former Great Northern SDP40 is ahead of a Burlington Northern freight passing through Sheridan, Wyoming during August of 1971. Lewis & Clark Railroad. According to the industrial publication, Railroad Gazette, the bridge was heralded as "one of the greatest specimens of engineering skill in the country.". // -->