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North Beach Peninsula's IR&N

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Product Code: 9781531646073
ISBN13: 9781531646073
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North Beach Peninsula's IR&N

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For nearly 40 years, the quirky little narrow-gauge railroad, begun in 1889 by the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, ran along the North Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington. The train provided the primary transportation link from Ilwaco in the south to Nahcotta in the north, making peninsula communities accessible to one another and supplying a reliable route to outside markets for the area's major industries--oystering, logging, and cranberry farming. A tide table, not a timetable, governed the railroad's schedule, allowing coordination with the steamers that met the train at either end of its daily journeys. Old-timers of the area still speak affectionately of the train's unorthodox schedule and its informal and accommodating service. And they remember with fondness that the IR &N was widely known as the "Irregular, Ramblin' and Never-get-there Railroad."


Author: Sydney Stevens
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2009
Number of Pages: 130 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1531646077
ISBN-13: 9781531646073
 

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