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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.
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 ...
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.
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
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.
The formation of Burlington Northern in 1970 from the merger of Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Burlington Route, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway on March 3 created a stronger competitor on most Milwaukee Road routes. To boost competition, the ICC gave the Milwaukee Road the right to connect with new railroads in the West over ...
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 ...