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Trolley on Spokane street.

"The Washington Water Power Company was in the transportation business from 1891 until 1945. Ridership on the company's rail system peaked in 1910 when the system carried nearly 25 million passengers. The huge increase in riders led the company to…

"Spokane Traction Company streetcar to 11th & Freya, 1915. Open end with conductor, rear, Motorman in front Right. E. Sprague - Union Park Line."

Spokane streetcar advertising Natatorium Park.

Isabel Marguerite Whalen Fuchs in front of a streetcar with Manito on the front. Manito streetcar took people south to Spokane College at 29th and Grand.

Two trolley car drivers on car. One man might be Dan Bishop.

Two streetcar employees. Man on the right is A. A. Maxfield.

"Snowslide at Mace, Idaho, February 28, 1910."

"Two great snowslides at Mace, Idaho, March 29, 1894"

"Two great snow slides at Mace, Idaho, March 29, 1894. No one hurt. Picture is taken from the top of one slide looking toward the other. Slide was from 75 to 100 feet in depth, cut made was 86 ft. by actual measurement one month after the slide…

Driving first railroad pile in waters of Elliot Bay in 1874. Near the corner of present-day King Street and First Avenue in Seattle.

Photo taken of workers and family eating lunch on the rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920

A cat sits in the sun on rail tracks between Hooper and Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls. Taken c. 1920.

A cat sits on a small handcar near the rail tracks between Hooper and Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920.

The rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Fall, ca. 1920.

Photo taken of worker and dogs on a chair on the rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920.

Worker rests on what may be the Joso Viaduct across the Snake River, ca. 1920.

Railroad worker and cat pose on the rail line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920.

Rail line between Hooper and Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties, ca. 1920.

Railroad workers pose with cats on the rail line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920

Photo taken of a rail worker and his family near the rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920.

Photo taken of a worker in front of a house on the rail line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920.

Rail worker and family in front a house on the line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920.

Two locomotives prepare to pass each other on the rail line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920.

Locomotive on the rail line between Hooper and Joso, ca. 1920.

Photo taken of workers on the rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920

Photo taken of workers on the rail line between Hooper & Joso in Whitman and Franklin Counties near Palouse Falls, ca. 1920

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.

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…

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.

Men pose near a locomotive idling. Presumed to be in Spokane Valley, ca. 1920.

First train to Astoria returning to Portland from Astoria on May 16, 1898.

A railroad cut and tunnel along the canyon of the Palouse River. Date unknown.

Formally dressed passengers wait at the electric railroad station at Liberty Lake Junction (north of the current site of the freeway). Taken c. 1905.

The depot of the Washington Water Power Interurban in Medical Lake. Date unknown.

Wreck on bridge caused by snow slide on February 18, 1915. The passenger car hangs precariously from the ruined trestle.

Passenger train wreck at the "S" curve bridge near Wallace on February 18, 1915.

The "S" bridge near the town of Wallace before the great snow slide of Feb 18, 1915.

A train rounds the Celilo Portage in the Columbia River Gorge. Date unknown.

Original Northern Pacific passenger depot converted to a home and moved to 2nd between Madison and Jefferson. North side of the street taken in 1902.