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Last updated 7/14/2022 at 9:27am

Dan Plouse

Tim Raetzloff stands on the old Milwaukee Road arched trestle over Cabin Creek near Easton.

The history of railroads in Edmonds is really rather boring. Great Northern Railway reached Edmonds in 1891.

The most unusual aspect of this arrival was that Great Northern used the name of a subsidiary railroad, Seattle and Montana. The connecti...



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