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Northern Pacific Railway

defunct transcontinental railroad company in the northwest United States (1864-1970)
Organization transport_company Q1135434
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Summary

Northern Pacific Railway is a transport company[1].

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Ashland[2]
  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: transcontinental railroad[4], business[5], railway company[6]
  • Followed by: Burlington Northern Railroad[7]
  • Headquarters location: Saint Paul[8]
  • Inception: July 2, 1864[9]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1970[10]
  • Replaces: Minnesota and International Railway[11], Midland Continental Railroad[12], Everett and Monte Cristo Railway[13], Q141553379[14]
  • Replaced by: Burlington Northern Railroad[15]
  • Reporting mark: NP[16]
  • Date of official opening: 1864[17]
  • Date of official closure: 1970[18]
  • State of use: decommissioned[19]
  • P14536: 343609[20]
  • P14750: 538C-F367-21B2-7AE6-FE7B[21]

Related Entities

business United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Animalparty · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Replaces → Minnesota and International Railway, Midland Continental Railroad, Everett and Monte Cristo Railway +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Replaces: Wikidata item"
  2. 10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 538C-F367-21B2-7AE6-FE7B
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 538C-F367-21B2-7AE6-FE7B, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  3. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14536 → 343609
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 343609, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782398664614"
  4. 21w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Continent → —
    State of use → decommissioned
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/35394|batch #35394]]"
  5. 24w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1864-07-02T00:00:00Z
    Replaced by → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Northern Pacific Railway
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Ashland
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Country of citizenship: United States"
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