Railroads of the Wenatchee Valley and Stevens Pass
This sign at the Wenatchee Riverfront Railway reads,
Railroads of the Wenatchee Valley and Stevens Pass
The communities of the Wenatchee Valley owe much of their development to the construction of the railroad in 1892. Served initially by James J. Hill's transcontinental Great Northern Railway, and by Burlington Northern Railroad after merging in 1970, Wenatchee has shipped and recieved many of its commodities by rail. Leavenworth served as the original railway division point in this area until after the Appleyard facility was constructed just south of Wenatchee in 1922-1926. Into the 1990s Wenatchee remains an important switching yard, crew change point and helper locomotive district for local and transcontinental freight movement over Stevens Pass on the Burlington Northern System.
The text continues on and the sign features a photo from 1911 of Wenatchee's Great Northern Railway depot at the foot of Kittitas Street
Railroads of the Wenatchee Valley and Stevens Pass
The communities of the Wenatchee Valley owe much of their development to the construction of the railroad in 1892. Served initially by James J. Hill's transcontinental Great Northern Railway, and by Burlington Northern Railroad after merging in 1970, Wenatchee has shipped and recieved many of its commodities by rail. Leavenworth served as the original railway division point in this area until after the Appleyard facility was constructed just south of Wenatchee in 1922-1926. Into the 1990s Wenatchee remains an important switching yard, crew change point and helper locomotive district for local and transcontinental freight movement over Stevens Pass on the Burlington Northern System.
The text continues on and the sign features a photo from 1911 of Wenatchee's Great Northern Railway depot at the foot of Kittitas Street
