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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 ...
The Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site is the location of the golden spike ceremony for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) in 1883. The site is located near Gold Creek in Powell County, Montana off of Interstate 90, [2] approximately 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Missoula and 40 miles (64 km) west of Helena.
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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 ...
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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was formed by merging several smaller railroads and forest railways of northern California into a single line northward from San Francisco Bay through the California Coast Ranges to Humboldt Bay. These railroads were built to move lumber to the national rail network from northern California coastal forests.
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.
Livingston Depot was designed by the Minnesota firm of Reed and Stem, the first architects for New York City's Grand Central Terminal in an Italianate style with red and yellow brick and ornate terra cotta detailing from lions' heads to floral figures and the Northern Pacific's trademark yin-yang emblem, and its interior includes inlaid terrazzo and tiling including the same NP emblem.