BRAINERD — It was an ambitious undertaking. But just how ambitious they were about to find out. The creation of the Northern Pacific Railroad began with the groundbreaking near Carlton, Minnesota. It ...

Northern Pacific railroad shopmen voted to formally end their strike, which had been ongoing since the previous summer. The strike had been effectively broken months earlier when the railroad hired ...

BRAINERD — For over 100 years, the Northern Pacific Railway connected the Great Lakes to Puget Sound on the Pacific, powering through the Twin Cities, Brainerd, Fargo, Duluth and more. But when ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The tale of modern day Tacoma begins with the first of many railroad tracks that lead to the city's birthplace along Commencement Bay. Tacoma is born of the railroad, created by the ...

After several years of negotiations with railroad companies, the promoters of the 1974 world’s fair were making progress in the early 1970s, though it was slow. The 1970 merger of the Great Northern, ...