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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 ...
1854 – The first railway in Brazil, inaugurated by Pedro II of Brazil on 30 April in Rio de Janeiro, built by the Viscount of Maua. [21] 1854 – The first railway in Norway. Between Oslo and Eidsvoll. 1854 – The first railway in today's Romania and Serbia (then Austrian Empire), on 20 August 1854, between Lisava-Oravica-Bazijaš.
This category contains railroad companies that became part of the Northern Pacific Railway system, usually through consolidation. Pages in category "Predecessors of the Northern Pacific Railway" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
May 9, 1901, headline in The New York Times. The Panic of 1901 was the first stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange, caused in part by struggles between E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, and J. P. Morgan/James J. Hill for the financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Toggle Events subsection. 1.1 June events. ... Timeline of railway history: ... Frederick H. Billings, president of Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881, is born ...
The Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad enters receivership. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later to become part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, building westward from Albuquerque, New Mexico, reaches Needles, California. [4] August 4 – Volk's Electric Railway, the first of its kind in Britain, opens at Brighton.
The Minnesota and International Railway was a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP), a railway that operated in the western United States along the Canada–United States border. In 1970, the Northern Pacific merged with other lines to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.
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