Literally the day the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad was completed, several thousand men immediately transferred over to the Northern Pacific to begin construction in August of 1870.

The creation of the Northern Pacific Railroad began with the groundbreaking ... “With the exception of a few miles at Leaf Lake, where there is an ascent of about 200 feet, there is but little ...

But the railroad fueled most of the optimism. The first transcontinental was completed in 1869 with the driving of a golden spike at Promontory, Utah. But the Northern Pacific was engaged in a ...

In 1864, Abraham Lincoln signed a law granting public land for the building of a railroad running from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean--the largest in American history. This Northern Pacific ...

the railroad tracks of the BNSF railroad can be seen angling from the lower right, past the old Northern Pacific Depot and continuing west toward Seattle. At far left, Interstate 90, completed in ...