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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 ...
Northern Pacific Railway: Washington Central Railroad: WCRC 1986 1996 BNSF Acquisition, Inc., Columbia Basin Railroad: Washington Central Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Washington and Columbia River Railway: NP: 1892 1907 Northern Pacific Railway: Washington Electric Railway: GN/ MILW/ NP/ UP: 1912 1916 Cowlitz, Chehalis and ...
Minnesota Southern Railway: Northern Pacific Railroad: NP: 1864 1896 Northern Pacific Railway: Northern Pacific Railway: NP NP 1896 1970 Burlington Northern Inc. Northern Pacific, Fergus and Black Hills Railroad: NP: 1881 1898 Northern Pacific Railway: Northwestern Coal Railway: GN: 1894 1899 Superior Belt Line and Terminal Railway: Park Rapids ...
The upper-levels retain their original appearance and materials. The structures are listed by their current (1986) names with their street address, historic name, and date constructed. [2] 1. Burlington Northern Passenger Depot, North Front Street (Northern Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot, 1909–1910) 2.
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 #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 ...
The Northern Pacific, Fergus and Black Hills Railroad Company acquired a graded right of way of 42.10 miles from The Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company which was completed partly by this company's construction contractors, De Graff & Company, and partly by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.