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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most of these locomotives were purchased or leased from the SP&S's parent roads Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway. The 4-8-4 Northerns and 4-6-6-4 Challengers were purchased new. This roster groups steam locomotives by their wheel arrangement and the railroad's designated class.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 is the oldest and only surviving example of the class "E-1" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive and the only surviving "original" (not purchased used from another railroad) Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway steam locomotive.
Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [5] BUGX 1803 January 1957 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP9R Southern Pacific Railroad; Willamette and Pacific Railroad; Portland and Western Railroad - Under ownership of BUGX - BNSF 1685 March 1957 General Motors Diesel (GMD) GP9 Burlington Northern (Manitoba) Limited; BNSF Railway ...
Pages in category "Northern Pacific Railway locomotives" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company ; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2 ) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal.