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The Washington State Ferry Salish heads for Edmonds from Kingston on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means it's time for turkey, football, food comas and ...
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The Edmonds–Kingston ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Edmonds and Kingston, Washington. Since 1951 the only ferries employed on the route have belonged to the Washington state ferry system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. The last regularly operated steam ferry on the West Coast of the United States ...
MV Puyallup is a Jumbo Mark-II-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.This ferry and her two sisters are the largest in the fleet. Puyallup is normally assigned to the Edmonds–Kingston route, [1] although she is often reassigned to the Seattle–Bainbridge Island route whenever either of her sisters assigned to that route are out of service.
The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. [3] WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. [4] The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024.
I took a $6.50 ferry to Vashon Island, a scenic spot near Seattle.. The ferry ride was only 20 minutes long and had beautiful views of the Puget Sound. I had a great time on the island and even ...
Edmonds station is located on a single-tracked segment of the BNSF Scenic Subdivision on Railroad Avenue in downtown Edmonds, adjacent to the Edmonds ferry terminal. [2] It has a single, 1,200-foot-long (370 m) side platform on the east side of the tracks, [3] running from Dayton Street to Main Street and paved with asphalt; [4] [5] the southern half of the platform, measuring 520 feet (160 m ...
No serious injuries were reported among the more than 600 commuters. Two tug boats attempted to pull the ferry free but were unsuccessful leading officials to wait until high tide approximately 12 hours later. Passengers walked off the vessel at approximately 10:15am onto a waiting barge and 2 tour boats.