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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 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: 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 ...
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #21 scrapped 1934 106 American Locomotive Company 4-6-0: 1902 25621 ex-California Northwestern Railway #32 then San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #25 scrapped 1934 107-108 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-0: 1904 23933 & 23951 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #22-23 scrapped 1937 & 1948 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...