The Milwaukee Road Sets Its Sights on the Pacific
A townsite agent confirms the expansion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to the coast following massive terminal land buys in Tacoma.
Charles Pfeffer, the townsite agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, has announced authoritatively that the Milwaukee road would build to the coast. He said denials were useless after the publicity given the recent purchase at Tacoma of terminals involving more than $500,000. Pfeffer says the Milwaukee has surveyors and right of way agents in eastern Washington at the present time.
“Pfeffer says the Milwaukee has surveyors and right of way agents in eastern Washington at the present time.”
The arrival of the Milwaukee Road was a massive industrial boom for Washington, physically connecting the state's interior to the coast. Today, the repurposing of those very rail corridors into the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail represents a shift from extractive industrial utility to regional recreational infrastructure.
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