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Northern Pacific Railway

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Northern Pacific Passenger train

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Northern Pacific Overland Express 1900

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Northern Pacific Railroad's on Track to Continue Brainerd's History - Lakeland News at Ten - June 17

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Northern Pacific 2156 called for snow duty. O-scale 2 rail.

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Fast mail Northern Pacific Railroad 1897

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly forty million acres of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction.
  • Jay Cooke takes control 

  • Settlement 

  • Panic of 1873 and first bankruptcy 

  • Frederick Billings and first reorganization 

  • Henry Villard, Gold Creek, Gold Spike 

  • Direct to Puget Sound 

  • Villard and the Panic of 1893 

  • Railroad labor dispute 

  • From Villard to Morganization 

  • Hill, Harriman and the Northern Pacific Corner 

  • From Hill to Howard Elliott 

  • Into the twentieth century 

  • Unification of the Hill Lines 

  • Lake Superior 

  • St. Paul 

  • Fargo 

  • Yellowstone 

  • Rocky Mountain 

  • Idaho 

  • Tacoma 

  • Passenger service 

  • The Route of "the Great Big Baked Potato" 

  • Presidents 

  • Chief engineers 

  • Notable and preserved equipment 

  • Steam locomotives 

  • Diesel locomotives 

  • Passenger equipment 

  • Cabooses 

  • Maintenance equipment 

  • Trademark