. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NORTH COAST LIMITED ON UPGRADE BETWEEN ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. The North Coast Limited. cities of St. Paul, Minn., with Portland. Train Xo. 1, traverses the distance inThe Northern Pacific Railway is, as Ore., and is also called the Yellow- 68-Kt hours, accprding to the time-its name implies, the most northerly stone National Park Route. The dis- table. There are, however, two changesof the great transcontinental lines in tance between these two cities is in
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NORTH COAST LIMITED ON UPGRADE BETWEEN ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. The North Coast Limited. cities of St. Paul, Minn., with Portland. Train Xo. 1, traverses the distance inThe Northern Pacific Railway is, as Ore., and is also called the Yellow- 68-Kt hours, accprding to the time-its name implies, the most northerly stone National Park Route. The dis- table. There are, however, two changesof the great transcontinental lines in tance between these two cities is in time, one at Mandan, N. D., wherethe United States. It connects the miles and the North Coast Limited, on the West-bound trip one hour must 4i8 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, igoS. be added for mountain time, and atTrout Creek, Mont., the Pacific stand-ard time adds another hour. The actualrunning time of the train is, there-. PYRAMID PARK. NO. PAC. RY. fore, 70J4 hours, which gives an aver-age speed of very nearly 30 miles anhour. The equipment of the train is wellup to the high standard maintained onour Western lines. This train was1 I ed in service during 1900 as a sum- of 598 tons. The engines are 4-6-0,heavy fast passenger machines. The Northern Pacific Railway runsthrough the Northwest States of theUnion, Minnesota, North Dakota, Mon-tana and Washington. It passes nearthe Northern boundary of Wyoming,in the northwest corner of which isthe famous Yellowstone National is a branch of the road at Liv-ing tone, in Montana, which takes thetraveler to the entrance of this won-derful region at Gardiner. At the beginning of the last centurynot much was known about the north-wi si portion of the United States. Intact, the government had at that timeno definite claim to the region, andPresident Jefferson recommended toCongress that an expedition be sentout to explore the headwaters of theMissouri Rive
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