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Northern Pacific Main Street of the Northwest, The Wood DJ NP
The Northern Pacific Main Street of the Northwest Wood DJ A pictorial history
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1968
Bonanza Books
208 pages
Northern Pacific, The Main Street of the Northwest DJ
Contents
Acknowledgements Page 8
Chapter I Exploring the Country and Building a Railroad Page 9
Chapter II The Cascades and Stampede TunnelPage 72
Chapter III Steam Motive Power of the Northern Pacific Page 105
Introduction
THE HISTORY of the Northern Pacific stretches back over 100 years to its formal beginning, the signof the charter by President Lincoln in 1864 to build the road from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest. Actually the Northern Pacific had its beginnings long before the charter was signed, in the earlier explorations of the Northwest, particularly the famous 1804-1806 expedition of Lewis and Clark, the route of which the NP largely follows today. The struggle to finance and build the road was a tumultuous one, and through a succession of presidents, the road was finally completed in 1883 by President Henry Villard.
Although the road was completed to Tacoma in 1883 by utilizing the rails of the OR&N along the Columbia River, it was not complete in the sense that the entire route was directly under the ownership of the Northern Pacific, and it remained for President Robert Harris to initiate the action that carried the road across the Cascades for a direct route over its own rails to the western termiof Tacoma. The story of the building of Stampede Tunnel through the backbone of the Cascades in 1886-1888, and the bitter experience of the road up on the switchbacks that preceded the tunnel is recounted here in some detail.
Finally, for the steam locomotive fan, a selection of over 100 photographs of the steam power of the Northern Pacific is presented. These photographs, representing the best of many fine collections, were acquired over a period of five years, and while not in any sense are they a complete roster of Northern Pacific motive power, they do represent a good cross section with emphasis on the big modern power.
CHARLES R. WOOD
Seattle, Washington 1968
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