Yin and Yang: Livingston
The story goes that NP Chief Engineer Edwin Harrison McHenry paid a visit to the Korean exhibit at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was impressed by the red-and-blue "Yin Yang" symbol on the Korean flag. On McHenry's suggestion, the Northern Pacific adopted the symbol as its logo as the railroad left receivership in 1896, and it appeared on railroad structures, buildings, and rolling stock until the formation of Burlington Northern in 1970.
The Northern Pacific "Yin Yang" is adorned on the colonnade of the 1902 Livingston depot, pictured here, and all throughout the main building in the background. One of the most glamorous depots in Montana, Livingston was a passenger stop for the NP's Chicago-Seattle trains and, until after World War II, local trains to Gardiner at the north entrance to Yellowstone, and it was also the headquarters for the NP's Rocky Mountain Division. Passenger service ended in 1979 with the discontinuation of Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha, and Burlington Northern sold the depot to Livingston in 1985.
Yin and Yang: Livingston
The story goes that NP Chief Engineer Edwin Harrison McHenry paid a visit to the Korean exhibit at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was impressed by the red-and-blue "Yin Yang" symbol on the Korean flag. On McHenry's suggestion, the Northern Pacific adopted the symbol as its logo as the railroad left receivership in 1896, and it appeared on railroad structures, buildings, and rolling stock until the formation of Burlington Northern in 1970.
The Northern Pacific "Yin Yang" is adorned on the colonnade of the 1902 Livingston depot, pictured here, and all throughout the main building in the background. One of the most glamorous depots in Montana, Livingston was a passenger stop for the NP's Chicago-Seattle trains and, until after World War II, local trains to Gardiner at the north entrance to Yellowstone, and it was also the headquarters for the NP's Rocky Mountain Division. Passenger service ended in 1979 with the discontinuation of Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha, and Burlington Northern sold the depot to Livingston in 1985.