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Railroad that Ran by the Tide, The by Raymond Feagans Ilwasco RR & Nav w/ DJ
Railroad that Ran by the Tide, The by Raymond J Feagans
The story of the Ilwasco Railroad & Navigation Company of the State of Washington with 181 illustrations , maps & drawings.
Hard Cover with dust jacket
146 pages
Copyright 1972
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 7
I By Steamer and Stage to North Beach 9
II The Railroad Is Built 19
III Growing Pains 29
IV The New Owners 49
V Union Pacific 69
VI Ferries Across the Columbia 83
VII The Last Years 99
VIII Anecdotes and Reminiscences 117
Appendix 135
Bibliography 139
Index 143
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
For more than forty years the Ilwaco Railroad & Navigation Co. served the communities of the North Beach peninsula, at the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State. It started as a stage line carrying passengers and mail along the beach - and sometimes through the surf - from one steamer connection to another on the circuitous coastal route from Portland to Seattle.
The narrow-gauge railroad was built from Ilwaco on Baker Bay to Nahcotta on Willapa Bay, a distance of 15 miles; it never had an outside rail connection. The railroad did make daily connection with the steamers at, its northern and southern termini, and since their landings were regulated by the tides, the I.R.&N. tailored its schedules accordingly.
Dubbed the "Irregular, Rambling & Never-get-there" by one local journalist and wit, the railroad with its pleasant pace and homegrown services boosted the economy of the peninsula immeasurably. Oysters from the sheltered waters of Willapa Bay made their way to Ilwaco and then to San Francisco; spruce logs were carried from Nahcotta to be made into rafts on the Columbia. But most of all the railroad brought vacationers to the fine beaches on the peninsula's Pacific shore.
There's something irresistibly neat and tidy about the operations of a self-contained, narrow-gauge short line. With small-town politics, perennial local characters and corporate battles, the story of the I.R.&N. is a microcosm of railroading at the turn of the century.
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