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<span class="rltitle">[[Dupont Powder Works|Dupont Powder Works.]]</span><br /> | |||
'''[[:Category:36in Gauge Railroads|36in Gauge.]] ''' Operated a 17 mile railroad throughout the powder works complex connecting with the Northern Pacific Railroad and a wharf at the mouth of Sequalitchew Creek on Puget Sound. | |||
<span class="rlbottom">Dupont, Pierce County, Washington. 1906-1976</span> | |||
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Revision as of 20:59, 25 February 2023
Industrial Railroads
Dupont Powder Works.
36in Gauge. Operated a 17 mile railroad throughout the powder works complex connecting with the Northern Pacific Railroad and a wharf at the mouth of Sequalitchew Creek on Puget Sound.
Dupont, Pierce County, Washington. 1906-1976
Seattle Coal & Transportation Company.
36in Gauge and 30in Gauge. Operated a 17 mile long tramway and ferry system connecting their coal mine at Newcastle with Seattle. The trip required coal cars be barged across Lake Washington, and then across Lake Union where the steam powered railroad moved them to the coal bunker. In 1880 the railroad became part of Henry Villard's Oregon Improvement Company.
Newcastle to Seattle, King County. 1870 - 1880