Editing Northern Pacific Railway (section)

==Chief engineers==
*[[Edwin Ferry Johnson]] (1803–1872), engineer-in-chief, 1867. Wrote ''The Railroad To the Pacific, Northern Route, Its General Characteristics, Relative Merits, Etc.'' in 1854.<ref name=cyclopedia>{{cite book| title=The National Cyclopedia of American Biography| location=New York| publisher=James T. White| year=1940}}</ref>
*[[William Milnor Roberts]] (1810–1881), engineer-in-chief, 1869 to 1879. Proposed the general route of the Northern Pacific from Bismarck to Portland. Also, Vice President, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1873 to 1878, and then President, 1878.<ref name=cyclopedia/>
*[[Adna Anderson]] (1827–1889), engineer-in-chief, February 18, 1880, to January 1888. In October 1886, he was also named second vice-president of the Northern Pacific. He completed the line between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wallula (where it connected with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's line to Portland), witnessing the driving of the last spike on September 8, 1883.<ref>{{cite book| editor1-last=Talbott| editor1-first=E.H.| editor2-last=Hobart| editor2-first=H.R.| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1885| location=Chicago| publisher=Railway Age| year=1885}}</ref> Thereafter, he evaluated possible routes for the Cascade Division, intended to connect the NP at some point near the mouth of the Snake River with [[Tacoma, Washington]] on [[Puget Sound]]. Preliminary reconnaissance and surveys began in March 1880, and in autumn, 1883, Anderson concluded that the line should be built through [[Stampede Pass]].
*[[John William Kendrick]] (1853–1924), chief engineer, January 1888, to July 1893. From July 1893, to February 1, 1899, he was general manager of the reorganized Northern Pacific Railway.<ref>{{cite book| editor-last=Busbey| editor-first=T. Addison| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1901 edition| location=Chicago| publisher=Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader| year=1901}}</ref>
*[[Edwin Harrison McHenry]] (1859 – August 21, 1931), chief engineer, July 1893, to September 1, 1901. Subsequently, he was chief engineer for the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] and then fourth vice-president of the [[New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad]].<ref>{{cite book| editor-last=Busbey| editor-first=T. Addison| title=The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America, 1906 edition| location=Chicago| publisher=Railway Age| year=1906}}</ref>
*[[William Lafayette Darling]] (1856–1938), chief engineer, September 1, 1901, to September 1903, and January 1906, to 1916. Between 1905 and 1906, he was chief engineer for the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]], returning to the NP in 1906 as chief engineer and also vice-president and engineer in charge of construction of the [[Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway]].<ref>{{cite book| title=Who's Who in Railroading – United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba – 1930 Edition| location=New York| publisher=Simmons-Boardman| year=1930}}</ref>
*[[Edward J. Pearson]] (1863–1928), chief engineer, September 1903, to December 1905.
*[[Howard Eveleth Stevens]], chief engineer, 1916 to 1928.
*[[Bernard Blum]], chief engineer, 1928 to March 1953.
*[[Harold Robert Peterson]] (1896–1963), chief engineer, March 1953, to May 1962.
*[[Douglas Harlow Shoemaker]], chief engineer, May 1962, to March 2, 1970.