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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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 Northern Pacific, Fergus and Black Hills Railroad Company acquired a graded right of way of 42.10 miles from The Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company which was completed partly by this company's construction contractors, De Graff & Company, and partly by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Smalley, Eugene V. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad, New York, 1883. Villard, Henry. The Early History of Transportation in Oregon, edited by 0. G. Villard, 1944. Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, Tacoma Illustrated, Chicago, 1889. Jay Cooke and Company, The Northern Pacific Railroad Its Route, Resources, Progress and Business.
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railway director. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and the Pacific Northwest in the United States.