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Box Car Diagrams
  
Diagrams of the box cars owned by the Northern Pacific.
Dan Obermeyer
Caboose Diagrams
  
Diagrams of the cabooses owned by the Northern Pacific.
Dan Obermeyer
Condensed Profile & Track Charts
  
Condensed profile and track charts are used by train crews to learn the Northern Pacific Lines. Alan Eisenberg has scanned his set of 1970 charts for posting our web site. See the indexes for each division for details.
Alan Eisenberg
Diesel Locomotive Diagrams
  
Diagrams of the diesel locomotives owned by the Northern Pacific.
Gary Tarbox
Drawing Database: NP Mechanical Drawings
  
A list of drawings from the NP Mechanical Department and diagrams from NP Application For Expenditures (AFE) located at the indicated archive facilities. These drawings have not been scanned, but are planned to be in the near future.  If you would like a copy of one of the drawings, email NPRHAResearch@hotmail.com with the details.
Dan Tomsky, Gary Tarbox
Flat and Log Car Diagrams
  
NP Equipment Diagrams
Dan Obermeyer
Gondola Car Diagrams
  
NP Equipment Diagrams
Dan Obermeyer
Hopper and Ore Car Diagrams
  
NP Equipment Diagrams
Dan Obermeyer
Maintenance of Way Equipment
  
Diagrams from the Northern Pacific Railway Mechanical Department.  Click an image twice to see the full size view.
Phil Head
Maintenance of Way Equipment Indexes
  
Indexes of the maintenance of way equipment used by the Northern Pacific.
Phil Head
Maps of NP Subdivisions
  
Dave has drawn maps of an assortment of Northern Pacific subdivisions for use in the Mainstreeter and our web site.
Dave Cooley
Refrigerator Car Diagrams
  
Diagrams of the refrigerator cars owned by the Northern Pacific.
Dan Obermeyer
Standard Plan NP Structures
  
Northern Pacific standard plans for structures built by the railroad.
Dave Beach
Steam Locomotive Diagram Indexes
  
NP Steam Locomotive Diagram indexes showing the specific details of each locomotive in a class.
Gary Tarbox
Steam Locomotive Diagrams
  
Diagrams of the classes of Steam Locomotives on the NP Roster.
Gary Tarbox
Steam Tender Diagrams
  
Diagrams of NP steam locomotive tenders by the designated tender classes.
Gary Tarbox
Stock Car Diagrams
  
Diagrams of stock cars owned by the Northern Pacific.
Dan Obermeyer
Tank Car Diagrams
  
Tank car diagrams from the Northern Pacific Railway Mechanical Department.
Dan Obermeyer
Wood Chip and Rack Car Diagrams
  
Wood chip and lumber rack car diagrams from the Northern Pacific Railway Mechanical Department.
Dan Obermeyer
Yard Diagrams of the NP
  
Diagrams showing the general layout of the major yard facilities of the Northern Pacific in the 1960s.
Alan Eisenberg
Baldwin Locomotive Works Collection
  
Baldwin Locomotive Collection is devoted to the largest and most influential manufacturer of steam railroad locomotive engines in the world. This collection includes books, specifications, engineering drawings, blueprints for engines, advertising and corporate publications, manuscripts, and photographs. Guides are available for the records, detail part drawings, and erecting card drawings.
DeGolyer Library, Dallas TX
Bibliography of Published NP Sources
  
A bibliography of all the NP related articles, photos and information located and reviewed by NPRHA members.
NPRHA Members
BNSF Station List Revision B
  
This list includes abandoned, sold, or current listings of all BNSF Stations by track segments and their predecessor companies. Alan Eisenberg led this project, Roger Taylor did most of the work for the Frisco segments. and Keel Middleton proofed the Santa Fe sections (Revision B).
Alan Eisenberg
BNSF Track Segments
  
Version 10 of current, abandoned and sold lines compiled by Alan Eisenberg from many sources of the originating railroads, including the Northern Pacific.
Alan Eisenberg
BNSF Unnumbered Track Segments and Stations List Version 10 Revision B
  
Version 10, Revision B of un-numbered current, abandoned and sold lines and station list, compiled by Alan Eisenberg from many sources of the originating railroads, including the Northern Pacific.
Alan Eisenberg
Bridge Inspection Instructions
  
Instructions for through, accurate and uniform inspection of all bridges, culverts and waterways on the property of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Gary Tarbox
Bridge Painting Instructions
  
Instructions for field maintenance painting of steel bridges on the property of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Gary Tarbox
Camas Prairie Rail Web Site
  
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.
Chris Atkins
Cass Gilbert NP Depots - North Yakima
  
The North Yakima Depot carries to an extreme the notion of using the center portion of the building as a decorative element. The half-timbered design differs from the Little Falls Depot in that it seems to be German- or central European-inspired (the English did not build wood towers). The large chimney is for a fireplace in the waiting room, a common feature in depots of the era. The chimney does not reflect the Germanic influence of the depot's otherwise unified design. The depot was enlarged within a few years of its construction and was later replaced.
Cass Gilbert Society
Coal Dock Operations
  
Coal dock locations and capacities on the Northern Pacific along with selected correspondences regarding coaling facilities. This information researched and presented by James Dick.
James Dick.
Color Drift Control Card Formulas
  
The NPRHA is proud to offer a set of eighteenn color drift control cards for common Northern Pacific colors through the Company Store. Color drift control cards were issued by the NP to ensure that color standards were consistently applied to equipment and structures.
Modeling Color Committee
Distribution of Power
  
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.
Verne Alexander & Rufus Cone
Genealogy & the Northern Pacific
  
The NPRHA receives many requests from people researching family members who worked for the Northern Pacific for a period of time. This article is intended to help those people locate as many information sources as possible. To print this article, click the link on the left to open the document, right click the first page and select Print.
 
John A. Phillips, III
GN-NP Joint Archive
  
This site contains material held by the GNRHS and NPRHA at their joint archives at the Jackson Street Roundhouse and the West End archive facilities.
Bill Sornsin, Gary Tarbox
Help for NPRHA Web Site
  
Answers to the keys question asked about how to use this web site.
Gary Tarbox
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
  
The museum is housed in the NP depot in Duluth, Minnesota, and displays a number of NP items.
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Lewis County Historical Museum
  
The Lewis County Historical Museum is housed in the historic, 1912 the century, Northern Pacific Railway Depot. Operated by the Lewis County Historical Society, it is dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of Lewis County, Washington.
Jesse Clark McAbee
Mainstreeter Summaries
  
The NPRHA started publishing its quarterly history journal, The Mainstreeter, in 1981. This link takes you to summaries of the articles, columns, photos, diagrams and maps in each issue. This list is searchable using the column filtering or the phrase search functions.
Chuck Soule, Paul Curtiss
Maintenance Rules of Northern Pacific in 1918
  
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.
Tim Peterson
Monad Story of the Northern Pacific
  
"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.
Jim Fredrickson Collection
Movement of Manifest Cars - NP Circular 155
  
Instructions Governing the Manifesting and Movement of Manifested Cars issued August 1, 1929.
James C. Dick
Nolan Northern Pacific Collection
  
The Edward Nolan Collection is here, about 1K views. Some very rare; all very expensive. Enter Nolan Northen Pacific Collection in the search box.
University of California, Bancroft Library
North Dakota Town Photos & Histories
  
An alphabetical listing of the Institute photograph files organized by North Dakota city or town. The series represents individual items acquired by the Institute or very small collections associated with a particular town. Institute for Regional Studies and University Archives.
North Dakota State University at Fargo, North Dakota
Northern Pacific Caboose Website
  
Welcome to npcaboose.com with a blog-style format! We are updating content to this new site, including our listing of all known Northern Pacific cabooses. Please contribute photos and information.
Kenneth Johnsen
Northern Pacific in North Dakota History
  
NP related articles from the Journal of the Northern Plains
Published by the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Mike Borkan
Northern Pacific Information Sources
  
An extensive listing of sources of Northern Pacitic Railway information.
John Phillips III
Northern Pacific Railway Corporate Record Indexes
  
The indexes to the Northern Pacific Railway Corporate Records stored at the Minnesota Historical Society's archive in St. Paul. You can search these indexes using this site's word and column search functions to find the box numbers that contain information you want to review when you visit St. Paul. Indexes are being formated for this site by the NPRHA members. Email us if you are interested in helping.
Minnesota Historical Society
Northern Pacific Railway Corporate Records
  
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.
Minnesota Historical Society
Northern Pacific Railway Museum - Toppenish WA
  
The Toppenish Washington railroad depot, built by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1911, served as the transportation center of the community until 1961. Today, this depot serves as the center point of a rich NP collection, including steam locomotives 1364 and 2152, a wide range of rolling stock and collectibles being preserved and restored by Museum members. Consider joining and helping with the Museum's impressive work.
Yakima Valley Rail and Steam Museum Association
NP Modelers Discussion Group on Yahoo
  
This group is organized to share modeling aspects of the Northern Pacific. The focus may wander from time to time, and ALL aspects of the railroad are acceptable for discussion. We are NOT here to discuss successor roads, but realize that we may need to refer to them for the technical information they inherited. Hypothetical modeling ("Proto-Freelance") is acceptable if it remains focused on the NP.
Dan Stinson
NP TellTale Discussion Group on Yahoo
  
A wide-ranging discussion of all aspects of the Northern Pacific Railway's operation, facilities, equipment and history. All are welcome to participate in the discussions which should be about the NP and not stray from that theme. This site is not supported by the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, but most participants are members.
John Phillips III
NP TellTale Group Discussion Subjects
  
Formated discussion threads from the NP discussion site on Yahoo.com.
Gary Tarbox
NPRHA Organizational Documents
  
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association orginizational documents used by members of the Association.
Gary Tarbox
NPRHA Preservation Grants Program
  
NPRHA announces a Preservation Grants program, designed to encourage and assist organizations and individuals in the preservation of Northern Pacific Railway artifacts, documents, structures, historical NP equipment and other materiel.
Bob Horne
Operating Divisions of the Northern Pacific
  
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.
Jim Fredrickson
Prairie Line History
  
The South Thurston County area of Washington State had the privilege of being located on the original NP mainline between Seattle and Portland. The segment ran from Tacoma, Washington to Tenino, Washington, was known in timetables as the "Prairie Line" and was the Fourth Sub-division of the Tacoma Division.
Brian Ferris
Schedules of NP Time Freight Trains
  
Published schedules of NP's time freight trains in 1957. Tables 1 and 2 show only the mainline time freight trains. Tables 3 through 12 show the time freights operated over the more important branch lines on the east and west ends of the NP.
Ryan Reed
South Bend Flyer - End of an Era
  
An article by Al McCready and photo essay by Allan deLay of the last NP passenger train to run on the Willapa Harbor branch of the Tacoma Division in March 21, 1954. The train No.596-591ran between Centralia and South Bend, Washington, and was scheduled as a daily except Sunday with a mixed consist.
Pacific County Historical Society and Museum
Tacoma Division AFE Collection
  
Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) files preserved at PNRA from the Fredrickson and Tacoma Public Library collections.
Chuck Morrison, Dan Cozine, Cosmo DiFrancesco
Timetables of the NP Divisions
  
Scans of timetable issued for the Divisions of the Northern Pacific.
Ted Pope
Title Plat Maps
  
Scans of title plat maps, mostly from the Tacoma Division. The scans are broken down into pages convenient for PDF format. Note that the title blocks were removed from the scans.
Jim Mattson
Werkema NP Photo Collection
  
The George Werkema Photo Collection focuses all aspects of the Northern Pacific, mostly taken during the 1960's and post-merger. You can MOUSE OVER any of the column headings and click the down-arrow to filter or sort for specific items. Scanning by Gregg Arndt and cataloging by George Werkema. Most photos by GJ Werkema, all rights reserved, reproduction prohibited without permission. 
George Werkema
Accident & Wreck Photos
  
Sequences of accident & wreck photos assemblied from Jim Fredrickson's collection.
Jim Fredrickson
BNSF Photo Collection
  
NP photo images from the BNSF photo archives. Many of these photos were used in NP advertising over the years and were taken by photographers F. Jay Haynes, Ronald V. Nixon and others.
BNSF Railway
Caboose Photos
  
A portfolio of Northern Pacific caboose photos submitted by NPRHA members.
Cal State RR Museum Photo Collections
  
California State Railroad Museum Library has Gerald Best, Phillip Hastings and Robert Hanft NP negatives.
California State RR Museum Library
Depot Photos of the NP
  
Northern Pacific depot photos taken throughout the operating life of the railroad and a searchable database. 
NPRHA members
Don Roberts NP Photos
  
Oregon Historical Society has about 6,000 Don Roberts negatives. Many NP which can be located from the OHS web site.
Oregon Historical Society
Equipment Photos
  
NP photo collection. All photos are copyright by George Elwood, from my collection with credit to the photographer or by the submitter. The photos may be used by individuals for their personal non-commercial use (screen savers, modeling effort, photo albums) without restriction. Reposting or other use REQUIRES permission from the owner of the image or data.
George Elwood
Gene Hawk NP Photos
  
This collection at JSRH contains builder's photos of NP Passenger and freight cars and of MOW equipment. To view all the data connected to a photo and a full screen image, click the link in the "Image No." column.
Hudson Leighton
Jackson Street Roundhouse Photos
  
Photos taken at the NPRHA Archive in St. Paul, Minnesota, located in the Jackson Street Roundhouse facility.
Ed Ursem
Jim Fredrickson Photo Collection Categories
  
Category numbers are used to describe how the negatives are filed in the file drawers of Jim Fredrickson's photo collection.  Image numbers are 5-digets preceeded by JMF and the category number.
Walt Ainsworth
Jim Fredrickson Railroad Photos
  
Jim Fredrickson has authored three books of Northern Pacific images and is an active member of the NPRHA. Photos from Jim's collection of are available by sending an email to: jimfrednpvet@harbornet.com.
James M Fredrickson
Joe Caron NP Slide Collection
  
Joe Caron was a telegraph operator on the Tacoma Division in the 1950s and 1960s. As a railfan, he photographed NP operations in Washington and traded slides with others to make up this collection which is now owned by the NP Railway Museum in Toppenish WA.
Dan Tomsky & Gary Tarbox
Locomotives of the late 1930s
  
This site shows Dusty Miller negatives from late 1930s.
A. C. Kalmbach Memorial Foundation Library
Mystery Photos of the NP
  
In each issue of the Mainstreeter, Bill Kuebler introduces an NP photo without caption or identifying data which is repeated here with a very high resolution photo showing more information than possible in a printed photo. It will be up to you to figure out the basic what, where, when, and sometimes who of the photo. Readers will then have until the next Mainstreeter issue is published to solve the mystery by answering all the questions
Bill Kuebler
Northern Pacific Equipment Photos
  
Photos from George Elwood's collection of locomotives, cars and a listing of NP models. Images may be used with permission.
George Elwood
Northern Pacific Images
  
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture has photos from the Wallace Gamble and Maynard Rikerd collections, and more.
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane WA
Northern Pacific Images of King County
  
Images may be purchased from the White River Valley Museum's web site.
White River Valley Museum
Photo Subject List
  
A list of the sujects used in the photo databases which catalog many of the photo collections on this web site.
Gary Tarbox
Ron V. Nixon Photo Index
  
Ron Nixon's Index of his photo collection owned by the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman MT.  Email sjackson@montana.edu with questions.
Gary Tarbox
Ron V. Nixon Railroad Photo Collection
  
Ron Nixon was a master photography of the Northern Pacific Railway and the other railroads of the northern tier states of the United States. He worked for the NP and GN over the years and acted as the "company photographer" in the late 1940 to the mid-1960s.
Museum of the Rockies
Seattle's Terry Avenue Line Photos
  
Some years ago Alan Winston created a website titled Seattle Spur and Spot which  a page on the NP street trackage along Terry Avenue in the area south of Lake Union and was last updated in 1998. With Alan Winston's permission, Jim reconstructed the web page and moved it to a new site. On a 2001 Seattle visit, Jim took a number of photos along the Terry Avenue street trackage and they appear, including a comparison with Alan's photos.
Jim Lancaster
Stampede Sub Blog
  
Brian tracks current action on the former NP lines. There may be a lot of orange power, but he relates the action to the way the Northern Pacific operated on the lines which are always informative.
Brian Ambrose
Thompson NP Photo Collection
  
Hundreds of vintage images by Steve’s father, Frank Thompson an NP Tacoma Division conductor and Tom Miller, an NP engineer, both top notch photographers. In addition, there are Steve’s own images, starting in the mid 1960's and images from Jack Anderson of Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad fame. Jack unknown to most folks, was a serious student of photography.  When Jack took on the restoration of steam locomotives full time, he gave Steve all his images.
Steve Thompson
Twin Ports Rail History
  
Twin Ports Rail History sells historic photographs, slides, maps, and blueprints covering the railroads of Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin. This includes Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Burlington Northern, Missabe, Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway, DW&P, Soo Line, and Omaha.
Jeff Lemke
Warren McGee's Black & White Photo Index
  
Warren McGee’s photo collection is owned by the Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT.  Email questions or orders to dmorrow@mt.gov.
Warren McGee
Werkema_NP_Photo_Collection
  
The George Werkema NP Photo Collection focuses all aspects of the Northern Pacific, mostly taken during the 1960's and post-merger. You can MOUSE OVER any of the column headings and click the down-arrow to filter or sort for specific items. Scanning by Gregg Arndt and cataloging by George Werkema. Most photos by GJ Werkema, all rights reserved, reproduction prohibited without permission. 
George Werkema
Bridge Book
  
This copy of the NP bridge book was last updated to 1968 conditions. 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 or use word search. The full posting of this book is underway.
Jerry Masters
Company Owned Equipment
  
Northern Pacific owned equipment and cars supporting company operations on the property in 1947 and 1968.
Lynn Francis
Diesel Locomotive Roster
  
A complete roster of diesel locomotives owned and operated by the Northern Pacific.
Lynn Francis
Equipment Special Service Assignments
  
Assignments of NP freight cars is special service.
Rick Leach
Freight Car Roster - 1910 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the years 1908, 1909 and 1910 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - 1930 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the three years before 1930 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - 1940 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the three years before 1940 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - 1950 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the three years before 1950 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - 1960 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the three years before 1960 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - 1970 Era
  
Freight cars by type in NP service during the three years before 1970 as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Freight Car Roster - All Time
  
NP Freight Equipment Index. Click the SRID to open the series detail page. Source: NP Ry Mechanical Dept.
Matt Herson
Freight Conductor's Record 1899
  
A list of all active NP stations as of this revision of Circular No. 21 dated January 1899. Compiled by Paul Curtiss.
Paul Curtiss
Freight Train Descriptions of 1968
  
The Train Brief document details the scheduled freight trains on the mainline and each division.  It was created by the NP a few years before the 1970 merger, but reflects information previously communicated by divisional dispatchers.  These documents are in live text format, and thus can be searched using the word-search function in the upper right corner of this page.
Steve Volek
Interlocking Tower Abbreviations
  
Abbreviations used in the NP Interlocking Tower Roster.
Peter Thompson
Interlocking Tower of the NP
  
A list of the interlocking towers associated with the Northern Pacific operations gathered from many sources and with the help of many NPRHA members. We thank Peter for all his work on this roster.
Peter Thompson
Motor Cars of the NP
  
The all-time roster of gas-electric and rail-diesel cars operated by the Northern Pacific.
Lynn Francis
Northern Pacific Transport Trailers
  
NPT Trailers on lease to the NP on July 1969
Lynn Francis
NP-Telegrapher Roster
  
This searchable spreadsheet can help you determine if an ancestor worked for the Northern Pacific as a telegrapher and if so, when and where.
Jan Taylor
Refrigerator Car Roster - 1940 Era
  
Refrigerators cars by type in NP service in the three years before 1940 era as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Refrigerator Car Roster - 1950 Era
  
Refrigerators cars by type in NP service in the three years before 1950 era as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Refrigerator Car Roster - 1960 Era
  
Refrigerators cars by type in NP service in the three years before 1960 era as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Refrigerator Car Roster - 1970 Era
  
Refrigerators cars by type in NP service in the three years before 1970 era as shown in the ORERs of the time.
Lynn Francis
Seniority Rosters
  
Information in this set of databases comes mainly from 13 issues of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT) seniority lists published in pocket book format. This collection represents Northern Pacific telegraphers with some additional entries for subsidiary Minnesota & International Railway, Big Fork & International Falls Railway, and Camas Prairie Railroad. Information on the books themselves is included on a separate sheet.
Jan Taylor
Station Roster of 1899
  
A list of active NP stations as of this revision of Circular No. 21 dated January 1899.  Branch station numbers show the distance from the branch's intersection with the main Line. Main line station numbers are the distance from Ashland WI. By the orginal charter, branch lines were operated as independent railroads outside a division before the 1896 NP Reorganization.
Paul Curtiss
Station Roster of 1922
  
List of stations on the Northern Pacific mainline and branch lines active in April 1922. Source: List of Officers, Agents, Stations, Etc. Number 26. Prepared by Paul Curtiss.
Paul Curtiss
Station Roster of 1947
  
List of stations on the Northern Pacific mainline and branch lines active in July 1947. Source: List of Officers, Agents, Stations, Etc. Number 44. Prepared by Peter Thompson.
Peter Thompson.
Stations of Current Idaho Division in 1901
  
Northern Pacific form 1451 dated 9-23-1901 FREIGHT CONDUCTOR'S RECORD has a list of all stations with their numbers which are miles from Ashland. The Rocky Mountain Division at that time was from Helena to Hope and the Idaho Division from Hope to Ellensburg. Complied by Jim Fredrickson.
Jim Fredrickson
Steam Locomotive Class List
  
Each of the steam classes assigned after 1907 when the last numbering system was in affect.
Robert Frey
Steam Locomotive Roster
  
A roster of the NP steam locomotives as numbered after 1907 with their former numbers.
Robert Graham
Steam Tender Roster
  
A list of tenders mated with NP steam locomotives after 1900 to the end of steam.
Robert Frey
Streamline Passenger Car Roster
  
The all-time roster of streamline and lightweight passenger equipment operated by the Northen Pacific.
Mike Lustig
Train Number Summary
  
This is a composite list of scheduled NP passenger and freight trains. The passenger trains operated by the NP in 1930 were compiled by John F. Strauss, Jr. and the freight train data comes from the NP Train Brief book issued June 23, 1969. Train numbers changed very little from the start of passenger service, but trains were added and removed from service from time to time. However, the Seattle to Portland mainline direction changed from west to east in 1932, changing affected train numbers.
John Strauss, Jr.
Wheel Reports
  
Wheel reports were prepared by freight conductors and describe each car in the consist, it destination, and contents. This list has been copyrighted by Allen Rueter 2005 who transcribed the material.  “The original document was provided by Dick Eisfeller, I have made a best effort to transcribe the original document. I have entered known errors, put in question marks where I can not make things out, and entered comments on what it might be. This copyright reserves all commercial rights, but permits the free sharing and non-commercial use of this document in either digital or printed format.”
Allen Rueter