RAILROADS INDEX

     Many of the settlers in the Big Bend area, including many members of my family tree, came from their previous homes in the Railroad Migration after the completion of those lines in the late 1880's and early 1890's.  These railroads were and continue to be essential to the region.


AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BIG BEND COUNTRY
The sections on county history and on cities and towns, most of which are transcribed in this blog, have many references to the coming of the railroads, without which most of those towns might not exist.  It is also linked from the Home Page (Quo Vadis).

BIG BEND RAILROAD HISTORY

Produced by the son of one of my classmates in the Coulee City Schools, "This blog features historical information on the railroad lines of the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state."

Inland Northwest Rail Museum
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VANGUARD OF EXPANSION
Army Engineers in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1819-1879, By Frank N. Schuebert. See especially Chapter VI. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEYS.

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific ocean, made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4.  Volumes I-XII.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1855-61.
See especially Vol. I and Vol. 12 for the Isaac I. Stevens reports.

Discovery School Spokane History Timeline
The Making of Riverfron Park, 1963-1974

University of Montana Photo Archives
Philip C. Johnson Collection

ARTICLES

Rail tracks removed from Fairchild Base
The Spokesman-Review, September 9, 2011, concerning the Geiger Spur.

Creosote raises rail removal costs
The Spokesman-Review, Wednesday, October 19, 2011, page A6, concerning the Geiger Spur.

VISIT TO COULEE CITY IN 1891
The Spokane Falls Review, May 21, 1891.

THE CLOCKTOWER
The Spokesman-Review, December 5, 2011, concerning the Great Northern Railroad depot.