North Beach Peninsula's IR& N, Washington. Sidney Stevens, The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum

North Beach Peninsula's IR& N, Washington



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North Beach Peninsula's IR& N, Washington Sidney Stevens, The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum ebook
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Page: 128
ISBN: 9780738570204

For nearly 40 years, the quirky little narrow-gauge railroad, begun in 1889 by the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, ran along the North Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington. The train provided the primary transportation link from Ilwaco in the south to Nahcotta in the north, making peninsula communities accessible to one another and supplying a reliable route to outside markets for the area's major industries--oystering, logging, and cranberry farming. A tide table, not a timetable, governed the railroad's schedule, allowing coordination with the steamers that met the train at either end of its daily journeys. Old-timers of the area still speak affectionately of the train's ...

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