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14 stories matching trainload
- Columbia County Ate Its Last Local Steak
After three years of trainloads shipped out, Dayton's butcher shops ran dry and the town had to import beef from the East.
- The Iron Giant Comes West
A record-breaking, twenty-eight car trainload of farm machinery marks the rapid industrialization of the Oregon frontier.
- The irrigation revolution comes to the Yakima Valley
Farmers are abandoning rain-dependent coast lands for the guaranteed harvests of the irrigated sagebrush plains.
- Eleven Carloads of Cedar Poles Roll Out of Newport in a Single Day
220 tons of poles bound for Ohio and points east — the biggest day's shipment ever to leave the station — as Newport cements its claim as the cedar pole capital of the region.
- The Cattle Boom That Was Selling Off Its Own Future
A Northern Pacific land examiner warns that Nebraska buyers are sweeping up Washington breeding stock, prices are surging in Yakima County, and an Adams County artesian well could open a new grazing frontier.
- Spokane Falls Devastated by Fire
Following the Great Seattle Fire, the sister city of Spokane Falls faces its own catastrophic conflagration, with millions in damages.
- Northern Pacific Declares War on Train Wreckers
After rail saboteurs derailed an overland train near Buckley, the railroad management has authorized a massive reward to hunt down the culprits.
- A Trainload of Black Miners Arrives in Roslyn — to Find the Strike Already Broken
Two hundred seventy Black miners and their families came from the Midwest to replace striking Northern Pacific coal miners. By the time they arrived, the white miners had returned to work.
- A Railroad Strike Tests Seattle's Union Solidarity—and the Courts
As Great Northern strikers held firm, a federal injunction and a trainload of deputy marshals moved against them, while Seattle union men rallied at Labor hall and organized along the line at Skykomish.
- The Mine Strike That Ended in a Shooting — and a Nonsuit
Washington’s Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of the Thornburn family’s damages suit after violence between striking miners and Black strikebreakers at the Franklin and Newcastle coal mines.
- Three Bad Years of Hops, and a Trainload of Sheep Pointing the Way Out
Yakima County's hop growers have lost money three seasons running. The remedy, this farm editor argues, is to stop shipping raw hay out of the valley and start feeding it to cattle, hogs and sheep here — as forty carloads bound for Montana just proved.
- Blueslide Breakthrough: The Tunnel That Pushed the Idaho & Washington Northern Through
After months of hand drilling, a crew of more than 500 blows a heading through the Blueslide tunnel — while the railroad’s general manager limps on crutches after a freak construction accident.
- While Seattle Chased Klondike Gold, Portland Quietly Bought the Farm
An 1897 editorial warns Puget Sound that its Klondike outfitting boom is blinding it to a $150 million agricultural trade that Portland is stealing from the inland Northwest.
- State Inspector Calls the Idaho Washington Northern the Best Railroad in Washington
After a complaint about dangerous track north of Newport, a state inspector rode the line and pronounced it first-rate — and praised the railroad commission as a bargain for taxpayers.
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- Locomotives Bound for Japan Draw Crowds to Waterfront
A spectacular display of industrial engineering as Northern Pacific crews load massive steam locomotives onto the S.S. Tremont for export.
- 377,509 Bushels: The Algoa Hauls a Record Wheat Cargo Out of Tacoma
A single tramp steamer carried the largest grain shipment ever loaded at Tacoma — 500 carloads' worth, a train three miles long — bound for Europe and a handsome profit.
- The Great Salmon Train
In a bid to secure freight business, a Seattle railroad manager stored an entire season's catch of salmon in boxcars for six months, resulting in the city's largest-ever rail shipment.
- A Costly Slip at the City Dock
Thousands of dollars in railroad spikes plunged into the bay after a dock stringer gave way under the massive weight of materials.
- The Year the Trains Couldn't Hold Everyone
Seattle's rail agents report the heaviest travel in years — packed cars, booming Alaska bookings, and a colony of 500 Hollanders settling on Whidbey Island.
- The Heavy Bundle that Gave Away a Thief
A German drifter's scheme to fund his return to Prussia is undone by a suspicious, heavy bundle of stolen goods left on a train.
- The Berry Boom Hits the Rails
Kennewick's strawberry harvest is so bountiful that the town's depot platforms are overflowing and train schedules are being held to keep up with the demand.