Industrial Railroads of Washington
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Industrial Railroads
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