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The pass was formerly traversed by the Northern Pacific Railway and the right-of-way is still intact and used as a rail trail. [2] The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("The Milwaukee Road") ran nearby, using the St. Paul Pass Tunnel south of Lookout Pass; its East Portal is at 4,150 feet (1,265 m), two miles (3 km) southwest ...
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 Railroad (now used by BNSF Railway, inactive), Interstate 90. Divides Pacific and Atlantic Ocean drainages. AR: Pipestone Pass: 6,453 ft (1,967 m) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (abandoned), Montana Highway 2. Divides Pacific and Atlantic Ocean drainages.
Utah and Northern Railway: Union Pacific Railroad: 1881–present Narrow gauge until 1887; railroad name Feely Bannock Pass: Montana and Idaho: 7,575 ft (2,309 m) Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad: Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad 1910–1939 Tunnel at summit Monida Pass: Montana and Idaho: 6,823 ft (2,080 m) Utah and Northern Railway: Union ...
Both of the Northern Pacific's 2-6-6-2 classes were copies of GN designs, including their Belpaire fireboxes, a rarity on NP steam locomotives. NP 3015, last of the Class Z's, had a troubled existence, suffering a crown sheet failure at Kennedy, Washington , on Stampede Pass circa 1916, then later derailing on the Wallace Branch in Idaho in 1933.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District consists of the historic right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (also known as The Milwaukee Road) in the Bitterroot Mountains from East Portal, Montana (near St. Regis), to the mouth of Loop Creek, Idaho (near Pearson), a distance of 14.5 miles (23.3 km).
The North Coast Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Bismarck, North Dakota.It started on April 29, 1900, and continued as a Burlington Northern Railroad train after the merger on March 2, 1970 with Great Northern Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
Acquired through foreclosure and reorganization from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Aug. 18, 1896, ... De Smet to Lookout, Mont., 1889-1890, 109.54 miles. ...