Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association

A bibliography of all the NP related articles, photos and information located and reviewed by NPRHA members.

Instructions for through, accurate and uniform inspection of all bridges, culverts and waterways on the property of the Northern Pacific Railway.

This site has many photos of NP-related equipment used on the Camas Prairie Railroad, an operation jointly owned by the NP and UP until is was spun off as a short line.

Coal dock locations and capacities on the Northern Pacific along with selected correspondences regarding coaling facilities. This information researched and presented by James Dick.

A listing of the location and condition of each active Northern Pacific locomotive for the date indicated in the link at the left of the table. These were scanned from Warren McGee's collection by Rufus Cone and Verne Alexander. Note that Warren used many of the early documents to note the engine numbers that he had photographed by crossing out the number.

The museum is housed in the NP depot in Duluth, Minnesota, and displays a number of NP items.

This is a set of images from the pages of the official Northern Pacific Railway Maintenance Rules booklet, published June 15, 1918. Thanks to NPHRA member Tim Peterson for contributing this material. Click the page to make image larger. Than click lower right corner of resulting image to magnify to maximum. Switch to Detail View to filter and find a specific page.

"The Story of the Monad" was available to passengers of the Northern Pacific's trains. Is was published in Oct. 1950 before the North Coast Limited's schedule was shortened to 39 hours the Vista-Domes were put in service and Raymond Loewy redesigned the train.

The Edward Nolan Collection is here, about 1K views. Some very rare; all very expensive. Enter Nolan Northen Pacific Collection in the search box.

An extensive listing of sources of Northern Pacitic Railway information.

Corporate records of the St. Paul-based Northern Pacific, its predecessors, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, documenting their operations across the northern tier of western states for more than one hundred years, until the 1970 merger that formed the Burlington Northern. Records include minutes, reports, correspondence and subject files, financial and accounting records, photographs, engineering drawings, land records, engineering and valuation records, advertising literature, timetables, publications, and many other materials documenting the principal staff and operating departments.

Formated discussion threads from the NP discussion site on Yahoo.com.

This history shows how the division points changed from the start of train operations in 1871 to the 1970 merger. Compiled by J. B. Klassen and presented here by Jim Fredrickson.

This list includes abandoned, sold, or current listings of all BNSF Stations by track segments and their predecessor companies. Opening this 18.2 MB document in PDF format requires Adobe Acrobat and can take a very long time with a slow connection. Alan Eisenberg lead this project, Roger Taylor did most of the work for the Frisco segments and Keel Middleton proofed the Santa Fe sections. (List A Revision 3)