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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 territory of Washington and state of Oregon to ...
Northern Pacific Bridge Number 9; Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site, 1883; Northern Pacific Railroad Settling Tanks; Northern Pacific Railroad Shops Historic District; Northern Pacific Warehouse; Northern Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis Rail Bridge; Northern Securities Co. v. United States; Template:NP named trains
Northern Pacific Railway: Washington Central Railroad: WCRC 1986 1996 BNSF Acquisition, Inc., Columbia Basin Railroad: Washington Central Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Washington and Columbia River Railway: NP: 1892 1907 Northern Pacific Railway: Washington Electric Railway: GN/ MILW/ NP/ UP: 1912 1916 Cowlitz, Chehalis and ...
Constructed partly by The Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (not in line of succession), which forfeited its right to the property by failure to complete the road, and completed by the Saint Paul and Northern Pacific Railway Company, Sauk Rapids to Brainerd, Minn., placed in operation Nov. 1, 1877, 60.50 miles. Constructed by that company—
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 newly chartered Union Pacific Railroad Company would build continuous railroad and telegraph lines west from the Eastern shores of the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa (opposite Omaha, Nebraska) [33] [34] which would meet railroad and telegraph lines build east by the Central Pacific Railroad from the navigable waters of the ...
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.
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 ...