Landslides Shut the Seattle–Everett Railway, and Travelers Finish the Trip by Steamer
Slides near Richmond keep the Great Northern closed for a second day, forcing southbound passengers off the train at Everett and onto the steamer Greyhound.
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Landslides continue to prohibit traffic on the Great Northern Railway between Seattle and Everett. The slides which came down on Saturday in the vicinity of Richmond have not yet been cleared away, although a large force was at work on them yesterday. It is believed that the road will be opened to traffic some time today.
The result of this block is that the coast train was not out on time over the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway. The passengers who came south were transferred at Everett to the steamer Greyhound to come to this city. The overland train arrived and departed on time over the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern tracks.
“The slides which came down on Saturday in the vicinity of Richmond have not yet been cleared away, although a large force was at work on them yesterday.”
More than a century later the same bluffs still slide onto the same corridor: Sounder North commuter trains between Everett and Seattle are routinely cancelled for mudslides and passengers are shifted onto buses — the 1895 remedy of 'a large force at work' has become a permanent and expensive engineering fight.
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