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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Northern Pacific Railway: Clearwater Short Line Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Columbia Railway and Navigation Company: GN/ NP: 1890 1902 Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: Columbia and Palouse Railroad: UP: 1882 1910 Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company: Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad: GN: 1880 1916 Pacific Coast ...
This category contains railroad companies that became part of the Northern Pacific Railway system, usually through consolidation. Pages in category "Predecessors of the Northern Pacific Railway" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Most bonanza farms were owned by companies and run like factories, with professional managers. The first bonanza farms were established in the mid-1870s in the Red River Valley in Minnesota and in Dakota Territory, such as the Grandin Farm. Developers bought land close to the Northern Pacific Railroad, for ease of transport of their wheat to ...
Below is a table of information for the Northern Pacific Railway’s steam roster with a symbol, Whyte notation, common name and notes. (The notes were compiled by Richard Boyland and Wes Barris and first posted May 30, 1991, to the electronic newsgroup rec.railroad.) Included is a breakdown of the Northern Pacific classes, along with the date ...