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unusual facts about Northern Pacific



Centennial Station

It was used by the pool trains that ran between Seattle and Portland by all three railroads that used the line, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific.

Edwin Harrison McHenry

In the 1880s on the Northern Pacific, McHenry was the principal assistant engineer on Stampede Pass during the construction of Stampede Tunnel, linking western Washington and especially the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the East by rail.

Georg von Siemens

One of his top priorities was the financing of international railway projects, including the Northern Pacific, and the Baghdad Railway.

Horn Rapids Dam

When the company went under in 1896, the dam was bought by the Northwestern Pacific Company (a subsidiary of Northern Pacific).


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Camp Porter

Camp Porter was established on the right bank of the Yellowstone River (approximately 3 miles above the mouth of Glendive Creek) by Company A, Eleventh Infantry, from Fort Sully, and Company B, Seventeenth Infantry, from Fort Yates, on 18 October 1880, as a winter camp for troops guarding working parties and materials on the Northern Pacific Railroad (N.P.R.R.).

Columbus, Montana

The original name was Sheep Dip, then changed to Stillwater, but because of a Stillwater, Minnesota on the Northern Pacific RR, the mail presented a problem.

Edwin Harrison McHenry

The story of McHenry and the Northern Pacific moving a massive bridge pier for the railway's crossing of the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota.

Kanaskat, Washington

This lasted until 1959, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were forced to build the Northern Pacific yet another station directly northwest of its postwar structure (due to the line change caused by the Corps of Engineer's Howard A. Hanson Dam at Eagle Gorge).

Logan, Montana

This was eventually made redundant by the use of diesel locomotives such as the EMD FT on the Northern Pacific and the alternate route was subsequently removed.

Minneapolis Great Northern Depot

The named trains Great Northern Empire Builder, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Twin Cities Zephyr, Chicago and North Western Twin Cities 400, and Northern Pacific North Coast Limited either passed through or terminated at the Depot.

MV Ortelius

She operated in the Russian Far East as a passenger and supply vessel, and as an accommodation and supply ship to oil fields in the northern Pacific Ocean.

Pacific Northwest Corridor

The possibility of rail development along portions of the corridor route in Washington gained prominence when Abraham Lincoln signed the Northern Pacific Charter in 1864 establishing the Northern Pacific Railway with the charge of constructing a rail connection between the Great Lakes and Puget Sound.

Thomas Oakes

Thomas Fletcher Oakes (1843–1919), President of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century

Timken 1111

With a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific was able to drive the locomotive as fast as a sustained 88 mph (142 km/h) while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train past Willow Creek, Montana.