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110 relations: Amtrak, Auburn, Washington, Auto Train, Bakken Formation, BNSF Railway, Breckenridge, Minnesota, Browning station, Burlington Northern Railroad, Canadian Pacific Railway, Cascade Range, Cascade Tunnel, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Chicago, Chicago Union Station, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Columbia River Gorge, Continental Divide of the Americas, CSX Transportation, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Devils Lake (North Dakota), Devils Lake, North Dakota, Dome car, East Glacier Park station, East Glacier Park Village, Montana, Ellensburg, Washington, EMD F7, Essex station (Montana), Eureka, Montana, Fargo, North Dakota, Flathead Tunnel, Glacier National Park (U.S.), Glenview, Illinois, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Great Dome (railcar), Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Great Plains, Hastings, Minnesota, Havre, Montana, Hiawatha Service, Idaho, Illinois, Illinois General Assembly, Inter-city rail, Interstate 78, James J. Hill, Kalmbach Publishing, King Street Station, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Lake Koocanusa, ..., Lake Pepin, Marias Pass, Metra, Midway station (Minnesota), Milwaukee, Milwaukee District / North Line, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Great Northern Depot, Minnesota, Minnesota Commercial Railway, Minot, North Dakota, Mississippi River, Montana, Morris, Minnesota, New Jersey, NJ Transit, North Coast Hiawatha, North Dakota, North Glenview station, Northern Pacific Railway, Northern Transcon, Oregon, Pasco, Washington, Paul the Apostle, Portland Union Station, Portland, Oregon, Prairie, Rondout, Illinois, Rugby, North Dakota, Saint Paul Union Depot, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Seattle, Section (rail transport), Seiche, Southeast Minnesota, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, Spokane, Washington, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Staples, Minnesota, Stevens Pass, Streamliner, Superliner (railcar), The Seattle Times, Train, Trains (magazine), Transcontinental railroad, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, Troy, Montana, Union Pacific Railroad, United States Department of Transportation, Vancouver, Washington, Washington (state), West Glacier station, Whitefish station, Whitefish, Montana, Willmar, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wishram, Washington, World War II, Yakima, Washington. Expand index (60 more) »
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.
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Auburn, Washington
Auburn is a city in King County, with a small portion in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
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Auto Train
Auto Train is an scheduled train service for passengers and their automobiles operated by Amtrak between Lorton, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.), and Sanford, Florida (near Orlando).
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Bakken Formation
The Bakken Formation is a rock unit from the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age occupying about of the subsurface of the Williston Basin, underlying parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
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BNSF Railway
The BNSF Railway Company is the largest freight railroad network in North America, followed by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in second place, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight.
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Breckenridge, Minnesota
Breckenridge is a city and county seat of Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States.
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Browning station
Browning station is a train station in Browning, Montana.
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Burlington Northern Railroad
The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known formerly as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881.
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Cascade Range
The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California.
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Cascade Tunnel
The Cascade Tunnel refers to two railroad tunnels (original and its replacement) in the northwest United States, east of the Seattle metropolitan area in the Cascade Range of Washington, at Stevens Pass.
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Central Railroad of New Jersey
The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central or Jersey Central Lines, was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chicago Union Station
Chicago Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, replacing an earlier station built in 1881.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St.
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Columbia River Gorge
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
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Continental Divide of the Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.
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CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad operating in the eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
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Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Detroit Lakes is a city in the State of Minnesota and the county seat of Becker County.
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Devils Lake (North Dakota)
Devils Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of North Dakota.
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Devils Lake, North Dakota
Devils Lake is a city in Ramsey County, North Dakota, United States.
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Dome car
A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the train.
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East Glacier Park station
East Glacier Park station is a train station in East Glacier Park Village, Montana.
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East Glacier Park Village, Montana
East Glacier Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Glacier County, Montana, United States.
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Ellensburg, Washington
Ellensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kittitas County, Washington, United States.
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EMD F7
The EMD F7 was a Diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1949 and December 1953 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) and General Motors Diesel (GMD).
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Essex station (Montana)
Essex station is a flag stop on Amtrak's Empire Builder line in Essex, Montana.
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Eureka, Montana
Eureka is a town in Lincoln County, Montana, United States, south of the Canada–US border.
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Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo is the most populous city in the state of North Dakota, accounting for nearly 16% of the state population.
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Flathead Tunnel
The Flathead Tunnel is a 7.01-mile (11.3-km) railroad tunnel in the Rocky Mountains approximately 28 miles (45 km) to the west of Whitefish, Montana.
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Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glacier National Park is a national park located in the U.S. state of Montana, on the Canada–United States border with the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
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Glenview, Illinois
Glenview is a village located in Cook County, Illinois, approximately 3 miles northwest of the city limits of Chicago.
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Grand Forks, North Dakota
Grand Forks is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck) and is the county seat of Grand Forks County.
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Great Dome (railcar)
The Great Domes are a fleet of six streamlined dome lounge cars built by the Budd Company for the Great Northern Railway and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1955.
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Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Hastings, Minnesota
Hastings is a city in Dakota and Washington counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, near the confluence of the Mississippi, Vermillion, and St. Croix Rivers.
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Havre, Montana
Havre is the county seat and largest town in Hill County, Montana, in the United States.
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Hiawatha Service
Hiawatha Service, or Hiawatha, is the name of an 86-mile (138 km) train route operated by Amtrak on the western shore of Lake Michigan, although the name was historically applied to several different routes that extended across the Midwest and out to the Pacific Ocean.
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Idaho
Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Illinois General Assembly
The Illinois General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate.
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Inter-city rail
Inter-city rail services are express passenger train services that cover longer distances than commuter or regional trains.
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Interstate 78
Interstate 78 (I-78) is an Interstate Highway in the Northeast United States, running 144 miles (231 km) from Interstate 81 northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, through Allentown, Pennsylvania, and western and northern New Jersey to the Holland Tunnel and Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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James J. Hill
James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive.
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Kalmbach Publishing
Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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King Street Station
King Street Station is a train station in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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La Crosse, Wisconsin
La Crosse is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of La Crosse County.
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Lake Koocanusa
Lake Koocanusa is a reservoir in British Columbia (Canada) and Montana (United States) formed by the damming of the Kootenay River by the Libby Dam in 1972.
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Lake Pepin
Lake Pepin is a naturally occurring lake, and the widest naturally occurring part of the Mississippi River, located approximately downstream from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Marias Pass
Marias Pass (el. 5213 ft/1589 m) is a high mountain pass near Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana in the United States.
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Metra
Metra is a commuter railroad in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Midway station (Minnesota)
Midway is a former Amtrak intercity train station in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.
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Milwaukee District / North Line
The Milwaukee District / North Line (MD-N) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its suburbs.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Minneapolis Great Northern Depot
The Minneapolis Great Northern Depot, also known as Great Northern Station, was a passenger railroad station which served Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.
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Minnesota Commercial Railway
The Minnesota Commercial Railway is a short line railroad in the United States.
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Minot, North Dakota
Minot is a city in and the county seat of Ward County, North Dakota, United States, in the state's north-central region.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
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Montana
Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.
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Morris, Minnesota
Morris is a city in Stevens County, Minnesota, United States.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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NJ Transit
New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit (NJT; stylized as NJ TRANSIT), is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the US state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania.
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North Coast Hiawatha
The North Coast Hiawatha was a streamlined passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago, Illinois, and Seattle, Washington, in the United States.
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North Dakota
North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.
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North Glenview station
North Glenview Station is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Milwaukee District/North Line in Glenview, Illinois.
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Northern Pacific Railway
The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.
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Northern Transcon
The Northern Transcon, a route operated by the BNSF Railway, traverses the most northerly route of any railroad in the western United States.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Pasco, Washington
Pasco is a city in, and the county seat of, Franklin County, Washington, United States.
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Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle (Paulus; translit, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; c. 5 – c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus (translit; Saũlos Tarseús), was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of the Christ to the first century world.
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Portland Union Station
Portland Union Station is an Amtrak train station near the west shore of the Willamette River in the Old Town Chinatown section of Portland, Oregon, United States.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.
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Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
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Rondout, Illinois
Rondout is an unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois, United States that first formed around a railroad junction.
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Rugby, North Dakota
Rugby is a city in, and the county seat of, Pierce County, North Dakota, United States.
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Saint Paul Union Depot
Saint Paul's Union Depot is an historic railroad station and intermodal transit hub in the Lowertown neighborhood of the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.
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Section (rail transport)
In rail transport, a section could refer to: a portion of a train that may be operated independently and/or combined with other sections to operate as a single unit; or a portion of railway line designated for signalling or maintenance; or an interior portion of a sleeping car made up of two double seats during daytime that convert to two double berths during nighttime.
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Seiche
A seiche is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water.
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Southeast Minnesota
Southeast Minnesota is the corner of Minnesota south of the Twin Cities metropolitan area extending east, and part of the multi-state area known as the Driftless Area.
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Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway (SP&S) was a United States-based railroad incorporated in 1905.
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Spokane, Washington
Spokane is a city in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States.
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St. Cloud, Minnesota
St.
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Staples, Minnesota
Staples is a city in Todd and Wadena counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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Stevens Pass
Stevens Pass (elevation) is a mountain pass through the Cascade Mountains located at the border of King County and Chelan County in Washington, United States.
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Streamliner
A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance.
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Superliner (railcar)
The Superliner is a type of bilevel intercity railroad passenger car used by Amtrak, the national rail passenger carrier in the United States.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Train
A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.
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Trains (magazine)
Trains is a monthly US magazine dedicated to trains and railroads, and is one of the two flagship publications of Kalmbach Publishing.
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Transcontinental railroad
A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
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Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) is a supplementary discretionary grant program included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Troy, Montana
Troy is a city in Lincoln County, Montana, United States.
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation.
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Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, and the largest suburb of Portland, Oregon.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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West Glacier station
West Glacier is a station stop for the Amtrak Empire Builder in West Glacier, Montana.
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Whitefish station
Whitefish station is a stop on Amtrak's Empire Builder in Whitefish, Montana.
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Whitefish, Montana
Whitefish (Salish: epɫx̣ʷy̓u, "has whitefish") is a city in Flathead County, Montana, United States.
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Willmar, Minnesota
Willmar is a city in, and the county seat of, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.
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Wishram, Washington
Wishram is a census-designated place (CDP) in Klickitat County, Washington, United States.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yakima, Washington
Yakima is a U.S. city, the county seat of Yakima County, Washington and the state's eleventh largest city by population.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Builder
