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Southern Pacific in the Puget Sound?
Author: Steve Carter
Date: 11-02-2009 - 22:53

I read an article in the Tacoma News Tribune about a yunnel UP started in 1909. The article is quite interesting, but left me with a couple of questions.

1) Does anyone have a modern day reference point to the North Portal?

2) The author describes Tacoma in 1907 as being "a nexus of railroad competition. The Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads and their subsidiaries coveted a larger piece of the trade action through the City of Destiny." Southern Pacific? Really, if so how did the good ol' SP figure in the Tacoma area, or anywhere north of Portland? Or is this the case of an uninformed reporter getting SP confused with the Milwaukee Road?

Here's a link to the article (can't remember if I found here first or elsewhere):
A Tunnel Back In Time

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Southern Pacific in the Puget Sound? Steve Carter 11-02-2009 - 22:53
  Re: Southern Pacific in the Puget Sound? > sort of Graham Buxton 11-02-2009 - 23:42
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel Graham Buxton 11-03-2009 - 00:10
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel Ken Shattock (aka 'KRK') 11-03-2009 - 05:24
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel George Andrews 11-03-2009 - 13:16
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel Steve Carter 11-03-2009 - 13:26
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel mudHen 11-03-2009 - 14:04
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel up833 11-04-2009 - 12:03
  Re: UP Tacoma tunnel Steve Carter 11-04-2009 - 17:26


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