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
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
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company was an important early shipping company that operated steamships on the west coast of North America. It was first organized in 1867 under the name Goodall, Nelson a
Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad
…Improvement Company, which went into receivership in 1895, emerging in 1897 as the Pacific Coast Company, a name the reflected its inclusion of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. C&PSRR upgraded to standard gauge, work that was completed in November 1897. The 1903 agreement with Northern Pacific gave C&PSRR a good route to…
Pacific Coast SS Co flyer
Schedule for early 1887
The ill-fated SS Pacific
SS City of Chester