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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 ...
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 ...
ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #18; used on the mixed train between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol; [1] scrapped 1928 102 Grant Locomotive Works 4-6-0: 1888 ex-San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad #15; used in freight service between Tiburon and Glen Ellen; [1] retired 1929 103 Richmond Locomotive Works: 4-6-0: 1901 3304
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 ...
NO. 508 TEHACHAPI LOOP - From this spot may be seen a portion of the world-renowned Loop completed in 1876 under the direction of William Hood, Southern Pacific railroad engineer. In gaining elevation around the central hill of the Loop, a 4,000-foot train will cross 77 feet above its rear cars in the tunnel below. [17]
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.
Train No. 5 [43] of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, [q] known as The Pacific Express, left Buffalo, New York, at 2 PM on December 29, 1876, 1 hour and 8 minutes behind schedule. [46] A powerful blizzard had begun hitting northern Ohio, northwest Pennsylvania, and western New York two days earlier.
The McHenry Railroad Loop near McHenry, North Dakota was built in 1899 by the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Also known as McHenry or as End of Line or as Northern Pacific Railroad Turn Around Loop, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The listing included 32.5 acres (13.2 ha). [1]