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A Northern Pacific Railroad photographer captured Seattle’s waterfront about 125 years ago Originally published September 15, 2016 at 7:00 am Updated September 16, 2016 at 1:43 pm ...
WITH 133 YEARS of local music reverberating between them, two bands posing at the intersection of Main Street and First Avenue South are compared this week. For our contemporary repeat ...
150 years ago the Northern Pacific Railroad snubbed Seattle and selected Tacoma as the terminus for its transcontinental line. #k5evening. To stream KING 5 on your phone, you need the KING 5 app.
Seven out of every ten stockholders in the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, through a committee, last week formally decided to lease their lines for 99 years to a new company, the ...
The Northern Pacific Railway not only influenced the development of Yakima’s Upper Valley, but it also opened up the Pacific Northwest to settlement and commerce.
RAILROAD FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS; Reasons for Proposed Mortgage on St. Paul's Pacific Coast Extension. TO BOND NEW HILL LINE Mortgage Placed on Spokane, Portland & Seattle Owned by Great Northern and ...
Northern Pacific relocated their terminus to Seattle around 1883. In 1887, Seattle became connected to the transcontinental railroad via a switchback over Snoqualmie Pass.
BNSF is made up of almost 400 predecessor rail lines, and one of the majors was Northern Pacific Railway (NP). During NP’s prime, the railroad ran not only freight, but passenger service. Traveling by ...
T he John H. Emery Rail Heritage Trust has awarded a $7,500 grant to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie in support of the Northern Pacific Railway parlor car 1049 restoration.
Northern Pacific Headquarters at 621 Pacific Ave., circa 1889. The railroad chose Tacoma as its western terminus in 1873; from that point, the city would grow from a small hamlet to a metropolis ...