Thankfully someone caught this short line on video before its demise! The Seattle & North Coast ran on former Milwaukee Road trackage on the Olympic Peninsula and had a very small yard in Seattle for the boat ride to Port Townsend. It's a shame it didn't last, because it operated in one of the most beautiful places in the state.
This blog post at Mile 15 gives a quick history of the SCN.
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Great video, the Milwaukee sure didn't leave much good track out there did they?
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Indeed they didn't. As with most of the track left behind, it appeared to be in some state of disrepair. John Crosby, a former Milwaukee Road Brakeman, says that derailments on the Snoqualmie Pass were daily occurrences by 1977 because of the track condition. S.L.Dixon photographed the Milwaukee Road during its decline up in Bellingham and documented some of the most horrific yard conditions I've ever seen - like
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So I'm not surprised the SNC had some "right-of-way sway!"