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.
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The successor to the New Westminster Southern, the Great Northern Railway gained access to Vancouver with the completion of the New Westminster Bridge across the Fraser River in 1904.
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