Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad
I was looking for a historical topic for today’s post and came across a reference to the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad. This railroad was incorporated in 1873, the year in which most of my current work-in-progress takes place. My novel deals with the coming of trains to the Pacific Northwest, but in my research […]
The Northern Pacific Railroad
The importance of rail development in the West is one of the plot lines in my current work-in-progress. Recently, I’ve been researching the Northern Pacific Railroad, which was the third transcontinental railroad completed in the U.S.. The Northern Pacific line wasn’t finished until 1883—almost a generation after 1860, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific […]