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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a 271-mile (436 km) mainline railroad from the former ferry connections in Sausalito, California north to Eureka, with a connection to the national railroad system at Schellville. The railroad has gone through a complex history of different ownership and operators but has maintained a generic name of ...
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 ...
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 North Pacific Coast Railroad was a narrow-gauge railroad constructed in the 1870s, primarily to haul redwood lumber from the Russian River valley. In 1902, a group headed by John Martin bought the railroad and renamed it as the North Shore Railroad. They raised $6 million to modernize and electrify the railroad ($211 million in 2023).
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) provided the first extensive standard gauge rail service to Sonoma County and became the southern end of the regional Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Although first conceived of by Asbury Harpending , who had even obtained many of the right of ways, the SF&NP was bought and subsequently ...
The railroad of the San Rafael and San Quentin Rail Road Company, hereinafter called the San Rafael and San Quentin, which is leased to and operated by the Northwestern Pacific, is a single-track, standard-gage line, located entirely within the State of California and extending from a connection with the line of the Northwestern Pacific at ...
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S; reporting mark SPS) was a railroad in the northwest United States. Incorporated in 1905, it was a joint venture by the Great Northern Railway and the Northern Pacific Railway to build a railroad along the north bank of the Columbia River. The railroad later built or acquired other routes in Oregon.
Union Pacific Railroad: Spokane International Railway: UP: 1905 1941 Spokane International Railroad: Spokane and Palouse Railway: NP: 1886 1898 Northern Pacific Railway: Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: SP&S, SPS GN/ NP: 1908 1979 Burlington Northern Inc. Spokane and Seattle Railway: NP: 1896 1900 Northern Pacific Railway: Spokane Union ...