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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 ...
Northern Pacific Railway: Clearwater Short Line Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Columbia Railway and Navigation Company: GN/ NP: 1890 1902 Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: Columbia and Palouse Railroad: UP: 1882 1910 Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company: Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad: GN: 1880 1916 Pacific Coast ...
Northern Pacific Bridge Number 9; Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site, 1883; Northern Pacific Railroad Settling Tanks; Northern Pacific Railroad Shops Historic District; Northern Pacific Warehouse; Northern Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis Rail Bridge; Northern Securities Co. v. United States; Template:NP named trains
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 ...
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.
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 depot was constructed upon the completion of a new Northern Pacific Railway line and the platting of a new trackside town named after the railway's president Henry Villard. The Little Falls and Dakota Branch line, running between Little Falls and Morris, Minnesota , provided a key link between the agricultural region of west-central ...
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 ...