Question

Which route did the Northern Pacific Railway follow to Washington?
a. It ran along the western United States to Seattle.
b. It ran across the northern United States to Seattle.
c. It ran along the western United States to Kalama.
d. It ran across the northern United States to Kalama.

Answer 1

Answer:

Throughout the mid-1880s, the Northern Pacific pushed to reach Puget Sound directly, rather than by means of a roundabout route that followed the Columbia River. Surveys of the Cascade Mountains, carried out intermittently since the 1870s, began anew.