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The tunnel was originally constructed for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the early 1910s and was abandoned in 1980. It now serves as part of a rail trail in Iron Horse State Park, known officially as the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. The trail was formerly known as the John Wayne Pioneer Trail and commonly ...
Pages in category "Defunct Washington (state) railroads" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The railroad lost money, but the final blow was the Great Depression, which collapsed demand for the forest products hauled by the line. Scheduled rail service was abandoned in 1933 and the tracks torn up in 1936. Today, much of the Mountain Loop Highway from Verlot to Barlow Pass runs on the abandoned railroad grade.
On March 5, 1927, the three-phase electrification was abandoned, and the new locomotives were placed in service between Skykomish and the east portal of the old tunnel; the time was reduced from 4 hours for a 2,500 short tons (2,300 t) eastbound train to 1 hour 45 minutes for a 3,500 short tons (3,200 t) train.
The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge. [2]
Logo of the Seattle and North Coast Railroad SNC boxcar with CRANDIC markings at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Seattle and North Coast Railroad (SNCT) was a short-line railroad that operated on the northern part of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State from Port Angeles to Port Townsend. The line was unique in that it was a "rail island" with no ...
The Fairhaven and Southern Railroad [1] and its successor the Seattle and Montana Railroad [2] were railroads in northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They ran roughly south from Blaine, Washington on the U.S.-Canada border.
1.11.33 Washington State. 1.11.34 West Virginia. ... Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Railroad - most of this was graded, and only needed rails when abandoned 1873.