The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide - for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines - containing descriptions of states, (14759575355)

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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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e Northern Pacific. The coal is a superiorhard, black lignite, and is used for locomotive fuel and alsofor domestic fuel in all the towns of eastern Washington.About 500 tons a day are mined. Easton (1,847 niiles from St. Paul) on the eastern side ofthe Cascade Mountains, is a small railroad town at the com-mencement of the mountain grade. The Great Tunnel.—The mountains are crossed at Stam-pede Pass, through the sharp comb of which a tunnel almosttwo miles long has been excavated. This tunnel is, with oneexception, the longest in America, being surpassed only by theHoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts, which is three miles in length.The Hoosac Tunnel was excavated from both ends and from acentral shaft, but the mountain over the Cascade Tunnel wastoo high to admit of a shaft, and the whole of the excavationwas done at the ends. In view of this fact, and also of the wild-ness of the country, and the distance from sources of supplies,the Cascade Tunnel may fairly be regarded as a greater22
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Western Portal of Stampede Tunriel,