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===Tacoma Division===
Headquartered in [[Tacoma, Washington]], the Tacoma Division's main routes were from Yakima to Stuck Junction, near future [[Auburn, Washington]], [[Seattle, Washington]] to [[Sumas, Washington]], on the border with [[British Columbia]], Canada, and from Seattle to [[Portland, Oregon]]. The division encompassed 1,034 route miles: 373 in main line and 661 in branches. It was home to the principal west end repair facility at South Tacoma, Washington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=2304|title=Northern Pacific runs first train from Tacoma to Seattle on June 17, 1884.|website=historylink.org|access-date=3 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622234001/http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=2304|archive-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref>

As the railroad expanded, immigrants, families, and single men moved to the Pacific Northwest. Tacoma's population grew rapidly: in 1880 there were 1,098 residents, and in 1889 there were 36,000.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schwantes |first1=Carlos |title=The Pacific Northwest |url=https://archive.org/details/pacificnorthwest00schw |url-access=registration |date=1989 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln and London |isbn=978-0803292284 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pacificnorthwest00schw/page/225 225–251]}}</ref>