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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 ...
1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway links Chicago with Seattle—the fourth U.S. transcontinental railroad. 1883 – The Orient Express , a long-distance passenger train service connecting Paris to Constantinople / Istanbul , was created by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).
March 1: As part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's plan to end a bankruptcy dating from 1933, it absorbs 23 subsidiaries, including some Class I railroads: New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway (Gulf Coast Lines), Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway, St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, and ...
Camas Prairie Railroad Company (reporting mark CSP) was a short line railroad in northern Idaho jointly owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Parts of the former railroad are now operated by the Great Northwest Railroad and the BG&CM Railroad .
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 1909–1980 Passed through the Pipestone Pass Tunnel: Deer Lodge Pass: Montana: 5,801 ft (1,768 m) Utah and Northern Railway: Union Pacific Railroad: 1881–present Narrow gauge until 1887; railroad name Feely Bannock Pass: Montana and Idaho ...
The Chelatchie Prairie Railroad is a heritage railroad in Yacolt, Washington. Formerly a Northern Pacific branchline and operated by the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway for many years, in the 1980s and 1990s the line went through a number of successive operators.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site is the location of the golden spike ceremony for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) in 1883. The site is located near Gold Creek in Powell County , Montana off of Interstate 90 , [ 2 ] approximately 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Missoula and 40 miles (64 km) west of Helena .
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 ...