The river between the Division St. diversion dam and middle falls, high water, winter 1934. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. station stands on the north bank of the river.
A train leaves Spokane for Palouse and Moscow, Idaho. S&IE Railway organized by Jay P. Graves in 1904 as an electric interurban. Renamed to Spokane, Coeur d'Alene & Palouse in 1927 after takeover by Great Northern Railroad. Photo taken in east…
Workers watch as a steam shovel moves earth into a horse driven railcart during the building of tracks east of Division and south of the Spokane River. Date unknown.
Laying railroad track along the north bank of the Spokane River between the present Downriver Park and the Bowl and Pitcher. This railroad was projected to be built between Spokane and Seattle. Capital failed and the railroad only reached Davenport.…
Copy of a photo by William Donahue showing the construction of the first Northern Pacific freight depot in Spokane - located between 2nd and 3rd on Madison. Sill plates of the structure are in the process of being laid. Passenger depot is the two…
A view of 3rd Avenue to Spring Street in September 1883 during the celebration of the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad at the University of Washington grounds.
First train arriving in Seattle over the Columbia & Puget Sound Railway in September 1883. This was also the first passenger train to arrive in Seattle and it brough officials of the Northern Pacific Railway of which the Columbia & Puget Sound was a…
Railroad barbeque by whites and Indians on the University of Washington campus celebrating the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway and the arrival of the first train in September 1883.