Comments on Washington Railblog: Electric On The Skagit River Hydro Project

To follow up on what O-E said, that NP right-of-wa...

2009-05-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

To follow up on what O-E said, that NP right-of-way never carried an NP train, as they abandoned it right after they purchased the company that built it, the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern. This was part of the Eastern Division of that line. This section did get purchased by the WWP. There is a remaining substation visible on the line, at Jameson, with is very visible from I90 about 8 miles west of Spokane.
WWP pulled the plug on the line in March of 1922, though it continued to operate an extensive streetcar line in Spokane proper.

Dan

Nehalem #89 ( http://home.att.net/~wrpn/number89.h...

2009-05-08T23:32:00.000-07:00

Nehalem #89 ( http://home.att.net/~wrpn/number89.html ) was originally Washington Water Power #150, over in Spokane. Washington Water Power, in addition to supplying others with juice, got the railroad bug as well.

In 1904, WWP purchased the right-of-way between Spokane and Medical Lake from the Northern Pacific Railway. A canternary system was installed over the approximately 17 miles. A branch was instituted in 1907 running between Cheney Junction and Cheney.

Trains ran on two tracks, about 2 hours apart in the halcyon days of the service. WWP even sported open-ended observation cars.

WWP became the first major passenger service abandonment in the Pacific Northewest, when they saw the handwriting on the wall - that the automobile was more than a novelty, and was here to stay. The system was pulled up in 1921-22.

Here be a model of the Wash Water Power Interurban...

2009-05-08T19:45:00.000-07:00

Here be a model of the Wash Water Power Interurban Station in Cheney: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e13e34434386783f70c46ff60869e0cb