This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Rebuilding Northern Pacific Bridges With Steel Across the Rockies
The Northern Pacific Railway has replaced wooden bridges with steel on its Rocky Mountain line. Workers use false work and carrier derricks to swap spans without delaying trains, while culverts and filled trestles replace many crossings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Rocky Mountain Division
Northern Pacific
Northern Pacific Company
Big Blackfoot River
Missoula
Thompson River
Greenhorn
Tre
Coeur d'Alene
Big Blackfoot
Fish Creek
Coeur d'Alene Branch
Dry Creek
Palmer
Bridge and Building Department
Gleason
Helena Mountain
Austin Gulches
Hell Gate
Jocko
Pend d'Oreille
Thompson and
Clark’s Fork
Lightning Creek
Quartz Creek
W. G. Eken
Placerville
Idaho
Columbia Sea
Seattle
Wash