Puget Sound Shore Railroad
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The Puget Sound Shore Railroad and successor Northern Pacific and Puget Sound Shore Railroad built a branch line of the Northern Pacific Railroad between Puyallup and Seattle, Washington, U.S., and pa
Columbia and Puget Sound Railway station and docks in Seattle
The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad was a 3 ft narrow gauge railroad and was the first proper railroad to serve Seattle, Washington, preceded only by horse-drawn rail vehicles and by a coal train mak
Puget Sound Shore Railroad
…Seattle, became the winner in July 1873, when the NP, then building north from Portland, selected it. Seattle businessmen immediately incorporated the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company to build their own line east, but were only able to build 20 miles (32 km) of narrow gauge line to a coal mine at Newcastle. Although it proved successful…
The locomotive A.A. Denny
Driving the first pile for the Seattle and Walla Walla
Looking east from the C&PSRR docks in Seattle, 1882
Railway curves along the shore south of Downtown Seattle, 1881