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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 ...
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.
Below is a table of information for the Northern Pacific Railway’s steam roster with a symbol, Whyte notation, common name and notes. (The notes were compiled by Richard Boyland and Wes Barris and first posted May 30, 1991, to the electronic newsgroup rec.railroad.) Included is a breakdown of the Northern Pacific classes, along with the date ...
Northern Pacific Railway: Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway: BNMR NP: 1892 1901 Minnesota and International Railway: Buffalo Ridge Railroad: BFRR 1989 1992 Nobles Rock Railroad: Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway: BCRN RI: 1876 1903 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway: Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway: BNSF 1996 ...
Moffat Tunnel, a similar railroad tunnel in Colorado; Mount Macdonald Tunnel, a similar railroad tunnel in British Columbia; Otira Tunnel, a tunnel in New Zealand with similar characteristics; Snoqualmie Tunnel, Milwaukee Road near Snoqualmie Pass (inactive, now a rail trail) Stampede Tunnel, Northern Pacific at Stampede Pass
Sonoma County's first standard-gauge railroad, operated by the Sonoma County Railroad Company, was the 1-mile (1.6 km) Petaluma and Haystack Railroad connecting the city of Petaluma with ferry service to San Francisco from Haystack Landing on the Petaluma River in 1864. Petaluma and Haystack coaches were pulled by horses after the locomotive ...
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.
The Pacific Railroad Surveys (1853–1855) were a series of explorations of the American West designed to find and document possible routes for a transcontinental railroad across North America. The expeditions included surveyors, scientists, and artists and resulted in an immense body of data covering at least 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km ...