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On September 8, 1883, the Northern Pacific Railway (NP), which was the first of the transcontinental railroads that ran through states in the northern tier, was officially completed. An extravagant ceremony was held that day near Gold Creek in the southwestern part of the Montana Territory (now the state of Montana). The Northern Pacific ran between St. Paul,...