The Northern Pacific Center in Brainerd will begin offering free tours next month in June of the historic buildings or structures that make up the railway property’s grounds south of Washington Street ...

A Michigan resident with ties to the Brainerd lakes area kept his earlier promise to donate $2,500 to construct a roof over a locomotive engine at the Crow Wing County Fairgrounds because his ...

TOPPENISH, Wash. — Inside the old Northern Pacific Railroad depot in Toppenish, visitors can step back in time. Here, they will fund a passenger waiting room that has been remodeled to look like it's ...

July 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in Pacific Northwest history: when the Northern Pacific Railway Company chose Tacoma as the terminus for its transcontinental ...

Before U.S. Highway 2 brought visitors into Superior from the east; there was the Northern Pacific Railroad. And in the early 1900s there were many small communities along that rail line. Communities ...

BRAINERD, Minnesota — 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 ...

Follow along as we learn the history behind the Northern Pacific Railroad. The Northern Pacific Railway, one of the great US transcontinental railroads, was once headquartered in Brainerd, Minnesota.

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 ...

It was age of steam, sweat, untold riches and dashed hopes. Friday, July 14, marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival in Tacoma of a telegram with life-changing news for city residents. The ...