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2 stories matching leavenworth
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- The Railroad That Burned the Forest—and Paid the Bill
In 1908, locomotives and clearing crews set eleven fires in the Wenatchee National Forest. The Great Northern Railway’s $2,312.62 payment was an early reckoning for industrial damage to public land.
- A Hobo's Waving Coat, and Three Slides That Shut the Line North of Newport
A landslide near Scotia derails a Great Northern freight — saved from worse by a tramp flagging the crew with his coat — while two more slides in the Morrissey cut strand the night passenger and keep Newport passengers in local hotels until morning.