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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 ...
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 ...
On October 31, 1889, the property of the Puget Sound Shore Railroad was sold to the new NP subsidiary, and on April 21, 1898, the line was sold to the reorganized Northern Pacific Railway. In addition, the company in 1890 and 1891 had partially constructed a branch from Black River Junction around the east side of Lake Washington to Woodinville ...
The line was then sold to the Northern Pacific Railway, which began daily passenger service to Yacolt. [2] The line also served as an important freight link for the area's booming timber industry. Harbor Plywood extended the tracks northeast to Chelatchie, Washington by 1948. The International Paper Company constructed a mill there in 1960 ...
The Point Defiance Bypass (officially the Lakeview Subdivision) is a 14.5-mile-long (23.3 km) rail line between the cities of DuPont and Tacoma in Pierce County, Washington. It was originally built by the Northern Pacific Railway – the Tacoma–Lakewood segment in 1874 as part of the Prairie Line, and the Lakewood–DuPont section in 1891 ...
Niles Canyon Railway; Nut Tree Railroad; Pacific Coast Railroad in Santa Margarita; Pacific Southwest Railway Museum; Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad, oldest railroad west of the Mississippi [1] Port of LA Waterfront Red Car, a rebuilt part of the original Pacific Electric Railway system (Closed in 2015) Poway–Midland Railroad
Operations map of the Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad during RailAmerica ownership.. The Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad (reporting mark PSAP) is a Class III shortline railroad that operates 158 miles of track serving the Kitsap Peninsula, Grays Harbor County and Centralia, Washington in the U.S. State of Washington, and is headquartered in Centralia, where the railroad interchanges with the ...
The Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad or MRSR, formerly the Mt. Rainier Railroad and Logging museum (MRRR), is a steam-powered heritage railroad operating in the U.S. state of Washington between Elbe and Mineral. The railroad travels on trackage that passes through thick forest just south of Mount Rainier. The depot, gift shop and ticket office are ...