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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a 271-mile (436 km) mainline railroad from the former ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka, with a connection to the national railroad system at Schellville. The railroad has gone through a complex history of different ownership and operators but has maintained a generic name of ...
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was formed by merging several smaller railroads and forest railways of northern California into a single line northward from San Francisco Bay through the California Coast Ranges to Humboldt Bay. These railroads were built to move lumber to the national rail network from northern California coastal forests.
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (and its predecessor North Shore Railroad) operated a network of electric interurban lines in Marin County, California from 1903 to 1941. . The lines ran to Sausalito at the southern tip of the county, where connecting ferries ran to San Francis
Northwestern Pacific Railroad: North Western Railroad of California: NWP 1885 1892 North Pacific Coast Railroad: Northern Railway: SP: 1871 1898 Southern Pacific Railroad: Northern California Railroad: SP: 1884 1889 Northern California Railway: Northern California Railway: SP: 1888 1898 Southern Pacific Railroad: Northwestern Pacific Railroad ...
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) provided the first extensive standard gauge rail service to Sonoma County and became the southern end of the regional Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Although first conceived of by Asbury Harpending , who had even obtained many of the right of ways, the SF&NP was bought and subsequently ...
The railroad of the San Rafael and San Quentin Rail Road Company, hereinafter called the San Rafael and San Quentin, which is leased to and operated by the Northwestern Pacific, is a single-track, standard-gage line, located entirely within the State of California and extending from a connection with the line of the Northwestern Pacific at ...
Map of NPR Land Grant, c1890. The 38th United States Congress chartered the Northern Pacific Railway Company on July 2, 1864, with the goals of connecting the Great Lakes with Puget Sound on the northwestern coast of the United States on the Pacific Ocean, opening vast new lands for farming, ranching, lumbering and mining, and linking the federal territory of Washington and state of Oregon to ...
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad began serving Healdsburg in July 1871, and built the station building around 1891. In 1928, the station was remodeled and a 1,008 square foot (93.6 m 2) "waiting room arcade" was constructed nearby. [2]