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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 ...
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 ...
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.
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad; New Orleans & Nashville Railroad – see Uptown New Orleans. New York Central (NYC) New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH) New York, Ontario and Western Railroad (OW) New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (NKP) Norfolk and Western Railway (NW) Northern Pacific Railway (NP) Northern ...
1876 1887 South Pacific Coast Railway: South Pacific Coast Railway: SP: 1887 1937 Southern Pacific Company: South San Francisco Belt Railway: SP: 1907 1945 Southern Pacific Company: Southern California Railway: ATSF: 1889 1906 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Southern California Motor Road: SP: 1887 1895 Southern Pacific Railroad ...
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 ...
This category is for railway companies (including operators of heavy rail, trams, light rail, rapid transit or other rail transport) established in the year 1876. 1871 1872