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1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Northern Pacific Railway ( reporting mark NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly forty million acres (62,000 sq mi; 160,000 km 2) of land grants ...

The New York and Erie Rail Roadwas chartered on April 24, 1832, by Governor of New York, Enos T. Throopto connect the Hudson Riverat Piermont, north of New York City, west to Lake Erieat Dunkirk. On February 16, 1841, the railroad was authorized to cross into the northeast corner of Pennsylvaniaon the west side of the Delaware River.

The Great Northern Railway(reporting markGN) was an AmericanClass I railroad. Running from Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, it was the creation of 19th-century railroad entrepreneur James J. Hilland was developed from the Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad.

Pau ( French pronunciation: [po], Occitan pronunciation: [paw]) is a commune overlooking the Pyrenees, and prefecture of the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The city is located in the heart of the former sovereign principality of Béarn, of which it was the capital from 1464.