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	Northern Pacific Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northern Pacific stock was quoted at $150 a share on May 6, and is reported to have traded as much as $1,000 a share behind the scenes.
		Northern Pacific was known for many firsts in locomotive history and was a leader in the development of modern supersteam locomotives.
		Henry Villard and the Railways of the Northwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Pacific_Railway (3689 words)

	Canadian Northern Pacific Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canadian Northern Pacific Railway was an historic Canadian railway with a main line running between Edmonton, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia.
		However, the CNPR was never more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Northern Railway and as such existed mainly on paper -- there were, for example, no cars or locomotives lettered as "Canadian Northern Pacific".
		The CNoR maintained other subsidiary companies, such as the Alberta Midland Railway (Vegreville, Alberta to Drumheller, Alberta), and the Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway (Strathcona, Alberta to Edmonton, and later to Stony Plain, Alberta).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Northern_Pacific_Railway (183 words)

	AllRefer.com - Northern Pacific Railway, Business & Occupation, (Businesses And Occupations) - Encyclopedia
		The Northern Pacific Railroad Company was chartered by special act of Congress in 1864, and construction was begun in 1870.
		Under the leadership of Henry Billard, the Northern Pacific was opened in 1883 from Ashland, Wis., to Portland, Oreg.
		In 1901 there was a spectacular financial contest between the interests of E. Harriman and those of James Hill and J. Morgan for control of the Northern Pacific.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NrthrnPR.html (400 words)

	YVR&S Home Page
		The Toppenish railroad depot was built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1911.
		In 2000 the museum division was renamed the Northern Pacific Railway Museum.
		In 1993 an agreement was reached with the Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma for the lease of the 1902 Northern Pacific engine #1364.
	nprymuseum.org (553 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Bridge 5.46 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Rising tonnage and larger locomotives required a stronger bridge but in keeping with Northern Pacific practice, and that common on many railroads, the span was dismantled and moved in pieces to Snoqualmie where it was reassembled and used to replace a wooden truss.
		It was nearly identical to the Northwest Railway Museum's Northern Pacific Railway Bridge 35, rehabilitated in 2003/2004.
		For the Northern Pacific Railway, that was the arrival of the Z class and other large motive power pushing total engine and tender weights to 500,000 pounds and beyond.
	www.trainmuseum.org /Collection/Bridge5-46.asp (550 words)

	White River Journal: "A Strike Now Exists on the Northern Pacific Railway"
		For the Northern Pacific, nearly all the traffic moving to and from Seattle’s docks was routed directly through Auburn.
		In one fell swoop, the Northern Pacific's annual payroll was reduced by $400,000.
		The only other item mentioned was the fact that "A strike now exists on the Northern Pacific Railway." St. Paul let strikers know their intentions in a less-than-subtle manner by announcing the NP would purchase of 1,000 new 50-ton box cars, 250 stock cars, and 70 express refrigerators.
	www.wrvmuseum.org /journal/journal_0496.htm (2825 words)

	GN History
		The Great Northern Railway was created in September 1889 from several predecessor railroads in Minnesota and eventually stretched from Lake Superior at Duluth and Minneapolis/St.Paul west through North Dakota, Montana and Northern Idaho to Washington State at Everett and Seattle.
		The line serving southern Oregon and northern California is connected with the balance of Great Northern's system by trackage rights over lines of other companies, to form a north and south through route on the Pacific Coast and between the Northwest and California.
		Great Northern's galaxy of streamlined trains began to take form with the announcement in 1944-—during wartime--that five completely new Empire Builders would go into service between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest as soon as they could be constructed.
	www.gnrhs.org /gn_history.htm (3000 words)

	Northern Pacific Bibliography
		Davidson, I. Oregon and the Pacific Northwest: Glimpses of pretty spots along the valley of the Columbia River from Northern Montana to the Pacific Ocean: Scenery along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, showing the new trans-continental route in process of construction.
		Pacific Railroad Laws: including charters and acts of Congress relating to or affecting the Union Pacific Railroad, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the Denver Pacific Railway, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, and the Texas and Pacific Railroad.
		The Pacific Northwest and Alaska: With a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
	www.employees.org /~davison/nprha/bibliography.html (1952 words)

	Railroad Maps: Titles: 6
		Preliminary sketch of the Northern Pacific Rail Road exploration and survey, by I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory.
		Railroad map of the eastern, western and northern states, and Canada, showing conspicuously the lines of communication between the ports of the Atlantic and the great west and north west.
		Railway map shewing [sic] the connections between Muscatine, Iowa and the eastern cities.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrmapTitles06.html (1469 words)

	NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY An Inventory of the Northern Pacific Library Collection at the Minnesota Historical ...
		The Northern Pacific Railway gave the name "NP Library" to this group of printed books and pamphlets, which were maintained by the office of the corporate Secretary.
		Additional records of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and of the NP Secretary are available in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.
		Northern Pacific Railroad; Speech in the Senate of the United States, April 22, 1878.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00481.html (3596 words)

	Annotated Bibliography on Railroad Land Grants, with a Focus on the Northern Pacific Railroad and Its Corporate ...
		Canfield, Thomas H. Northern Pacific railroad; partial report of the Board of directors of a portion of a reconnoissance made in the summer of 1869, between Lake Superior, and the Pacific ocean..
		Northern Pacific tour: the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad, by John Hyde.
		Meyer, H.R. The settlements with the Pacific Railways.
	www.landgrant.org /biblio1.html (12907 words)

	NORTHERN SECURITIES CO. v. U.S
		Those who were stockholders of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and became stockholders in the holding company are now interested in preventing all competition between the two lines, and, as owners of stock or of certificates of stock in the holding company, they will see to it that no competition is tolerated.
		Great Northern Railway, 161 U.S. 646, which, although not arising under the Anti-Trust Act, involved an agreement under which the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies should be consolidated and by which competition between those companies was to cease.
		However that company may have acquired for itself any stock in the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies, no matter how it obtained the means to do so, all the stock it held or acquired in the constituent companies was acquired and held to be used in suppressing competition between those companies.
	www.tourolaw.edu /Patch/Northern/Harlan.asp (8727 words)

	PSMRE - Railroad History - Northern Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Josiah Perham, along with Asa Whitney, Isaac Stevens and Edward Johnson were the first to put in motion a railroad across the route that was traversed by Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the northwest, spanning May 1804 to September 1806.
		On September 18, 1873, the Northern Pacific and Jay Cooke were felled by the Financial Panic of 1873.
		One of the most noted occurrences in the history of the Northern Pacific came in 1879.
	www.psmre.org /hist-np.htm (756 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Company
		The collection documents its operations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years, until its 1970 merger with the Great Northern, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle that formed the Burlington Northern.
		Extensive subject files document the finances and operations of branch lines and other subsidiaries, the Northern Pacific Railroad's receivership and reorganization (1893-1897), and the valuation of all corporate physical property ordered in 1917, as well as many other subjects relating to the management of the corporation.
		When the NP was chartered in 1864, it received from Congress a grant of approximately 50 million acres of undeveloped land along its route through the northern tier of western states.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/00521.htm (3319 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Yellowstone Park Line Map and Travel Brochure from the 1940's
		Between Forsyth and Missoula, Montana, Northern Pacific trains are in the heart of the ranch country where scores of dude ranches, livestock ranches, hunting lodges, resort hotels and wilderness camps are guest headquarters throughout the summer, and some the year round.
		Tacoma is one of the Pacific Coast terminal cities of the Northern Pacific and commands its world port on Commencement Bay in Puget Sound.
		Fruit From Washington has collected more images of Northern Pacific Railroad Travel, including classic picture postcard scenes of natural wonders such as this view of the road along the shore of the Shoshone Reservoir, Yellowstone Park, taken by Asahel Curtis for the Northern Pacific Railway Company in the early 20th century.
	www.fruitfromwashington.com /History/yellowstone.htm (1639 words)

	Rail References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY OF MCGEE AND NIXON
		His great rival, the Northern Pacific, got into difficulties in the Panic of 1893, and he was the leader in its reorganization.
		He opposed the Northern Pacific Railroad, became a partner in the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad, and in the end served as attorney for James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway to Seattle.
	www.northwestrailfan.com /references.htm (6308 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway's "Wonderland" Guides (1883-1906)
		In 1883, the Northern Pacific Railway began rail service to Yellowstone, providing luxurious hotels for the America's first generation of wilderness tourists.
		Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
		Wheeler became the advertising editor for the Northern Pacific Railway and the author of Wonderland from 1892 to 1909.
	www.sharinghistory.com /RR4.htm (988 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Co. - Britannica Concise
		Northern Pacific Railway Company - one of the northern transcontinental railroads of the United States, operating between St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle, Wash., and merged into the Burlington Northern in 1970.
		It was founded in 1881 after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway and named for nearby Glendive Creek (said to be a corruption of “Glendale”).
		Search for "Northern Pacific Railway Co." at Encyclopædia Britannica Online for all this plus dictionary definitions, magazine articles, and more.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9373643 (384 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Museum Toppenish, Washington (History Museums)
		Built in 1911, this "old depot" was the third one built in the same general area of Toppenish by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
		The Burlington Northern Railway abandoned the depot in 1982, but volunteers converted it to a museum starting in 1991.
		The Railway Express Agency's office was converted to a gift shop, which features items for railroad enthusiasts and children of all ages.
	www.ohwy.com /wa/y/yakivrsm.htm (173 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Company. Pamphlet Collection, 1867 - 1967. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		These items contain information concerning the Northern Pacific's annual reports, the reports of branch lines, and immigrant guides to railroad land in the western states.
		Due to the varied nature of the items that relate not only to the Northern Pacific Railway Company but also to smaller railroads and railroad related companies, the collection is arranged into sixteen separate series.
		After checking the OCLC and RLIN national databases in March 2002, it has been determined that there are similar manuscript collections about the Northern Pacific Railway Company available at the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul and at the Central Minnesota Historical Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
	www.lib.mnsu.edu /lib/archives/fas/smhc104.html (1662 words)

	Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
		The Burlington Northern RR, with headquarters in Fort Worth, Tex, was itself created (1970) from the merger of four older regional railroads: the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR (est.
		Canadian National Railway - Canadian National Railway, rail system in Canada and the United States, extending from coast to...
		Northern Pacific Railway - Northern Pacific Railway, former American rail line, following the northern route from Duluth and...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/bus/A0809523.html (221 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY [Northern Pacific Railway] former American rail line, following the northern route from Duluth and St. Paul, Minn., to Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Oreg.
		Union Pacific, BNSF resolve disputes over diesel fuel spilled at rail yards.(Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway)
		Thousand blunders: the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and northern British Columbia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NrthrnP1R1.asp (570 words)

	Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association
		The signing of the charter for the Northern Pacific Railroad by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and the completion of its mainline in 1883 were major factors in the opening of the northern tier of United States.
		The NP was involved in some key events affecting the development of the nation, such as: the demise of Custer’s troops, the financial collapses of 1873 and 1893, and the anti-trust legislation of the early1900s.
		This is done by the nearly 2,000 members of the NPRHA who support research into the operations, equipment, and facilities of the NP and by modeling and publishing the various research findings.
	www.nprha.org (364 words)

	Northern Pacific Water Tank
		By 1891, the Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern had failed, and in Issaquah area the company was operating under receivership as a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
		In tern, the SandI was absorbed by the growing Northern Pacific Railway in 1901.
		In 1920, the Northern Pacific North Bend Line (NP) built a new 54,120 gallon wooden water tank at the junction of the main line and the coal mine loop south of town.
	www.issaquahhistory.org /sites/watertank.htm (275 words)

	Library Bookwatch: Dining Car to the Pacific
		Travelers on the Northern Pacific Railway got much more than a ticket to travel when they chose to ride: they often received gourmet dining in the dining car, as William A. McKenzie illustrates in his Dining Car to the Pacific: The "Famously Good" Food of the Northern Pacific Railway.
		The Northern's service was widely regarded as the best in the industry--and source materials from railroad records of the 1860s blends with memoirs of meals to recreate the experience--complete with over 150 recipes used on the line, many developed for or by Northern Pacific.
		McKenzie's nearly thirty years as a PR manager and corporate historian for the railroad lends expertise to his review and organization of the company's archival records for this lovely survey, while his wife Violet tested and modified the dishes for use at home.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RGR/is_2005_March/ai_n12938119 (233 words)

	Pacific Railway Acts -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The first Pacific Railway Act (July 1, 1862) authorized the building of the railroad and granted rights of way to the Union Pacific to build westward from Omaha, Neb., and to the Central Pacific to build eastward from Sacramento, Calif. …
		The northern border was shifted to the 60th parallel and to Hudson Bay in 1912.
		This region encompasses the coast of the Pacific Ocean and ranges from tropical islands to the freezing temperatures.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057923 (772 words)

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