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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 territories and later newly admitted to the ...
Northern Pacific Railway: Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway: BNMR NP: 1892 1901 Minnesota and International Railway: Buffalo Ridge Railroad: BFRR 1989 1992 Nobles Rock Railroad: Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway: BCRN RI: 1876 1903 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway: Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway: BNSF 1996 ...
December 29 – Ashtabula River railroad disaster: Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The Pacific Express, collapses the Ashtabula River bridge at Ashtabula, Ohio, dropping eleven passenger cars into a fire started by the car stoves. Of the 159 people on board, 92 are killed and 64 injured, the worst train disaster in the ...
In winter 1859-1860, Judah was in Washington D.C. lobbying for a Pacific Railroad bill; [18] California would hold a Pacific Railroad Convention in Sacramento on the first Monday that February. [19] Judah returned to California by July, [20] lobbied local newspapers for public support, [21] [22] and surveyed routes to at least [23] three [24 ...
Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: Saint Paul, Minnesota–Seattle–Portland, Oregon [1924] 1883–1888; 1910–1930 Atlantic Express: Chicago & North Western: Chicago–Minneapolis [1924] 1900–1926 Atlantic Express: Union Pacific Railroad: Portland, Oregon–Kansas City, Missouri [1924] 1903–1928 Atlantic Flyer
Frank Jay Haynes (October 28, 1853 – March 10, 1921), known as F. Jay or "the Professor" to almost all who knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher, and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through photographs the settlement and early history of the Northwestern United States.
The property of this company was operated by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company from December 14, 1885, and December 15, 1886, the dates on which the separate portions of the road were placed in operation, to August 15, 1893; from the latter date to August 31, 1896, by the receivers of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; and from ...
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific Railway: Chicago, Illinois–Gardiner, Montana (called 'Yellowstone Park Comet until 1930) [1930] 1926–1932 Yellowstone Express: Union Pacific Railroad, Wabash Railroad: St. Louis, Missouri–West Yellowstone, Montana [1930] 1922–1942 Yellowstone Special: Union Pacific Railroad