Lincoln, R.M.S Titanic and Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern

Today is both the anniversary of the death of Abe Lincoln and sinking of the Titanic.  It also could be mentioned a fast food chain openned it's doors today leading to countless deaths because the over 99 billion served.  Such tragedy for a single date. 

It is also the anniverary of the founding of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad which was to run to Canada and over the Cascades to Spokane and beyond.  That didn't happen.  The line ran from Spokane to about Coulee City and from Seattle to North Bend.  The North Bend location is odd since the maps the company published showed that they were planning to cross the Cascades at Stevens Pass not Snoqualmie Pass.  The line was also completed to Canada.  The railroad's greatest accomplishment, other than getting the Northern Pacific to buy the line even when they were not interested in purchasing it, was that it brought labor and supplies to the site of the Snoqualmie Falls powerhouse.

Tonight since I don't have photos of the Titanic or Abe Lincoln, a picture of the Snoqualmie Train Depot on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern.

Enjoy

Dan