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Railroads Race Across Olympic Peninsula Power Belt Lines Planned
Promoters push a belt line around the Olympic Peninsula linking Elma Summit Junction City Port Angeles Quilayute Moclips and Grays Harbor with ferries to Everett. Union Pacific and Chicago Milwaukee St Paul plan joint routes from Seattle to the Columbia River while Centralia becomes a rail hub for the Northern Pacific belt and the joint lines. A timber boom is foreseen with 3110400 carloads in Clallam County alone and mills ready to surge once traffic opens.
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Grays Harbor
Northern Pacific
Elma
Summit
Junction City
Port Angeles
Quillayute
Moclips
Port Ludlow
Everett
Peninsula
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sound
Union Pacific
Portland
J. D. Farrell
Mr. Harriman
Tacoma
Narrows
Gig Harbor
Kitsap County
Port Orchard
Bremerton
Port Washington Bay
Dog Fish Bay
Port Gamble
Squamish Bay
Olympic Peninsula
Theodore F. Rixon
H. Harriman
Harriman
A. L. Hickman
East Clallam
Northern Pacific Engineers
Mr. Hickman
Chicago
Milwaukee& St. Paul
Seattle
Columbia River
Centralia
Lincoln Creek
Milwaukee
Chehalis River
Quileene
Hoods Canal
Discovery Bay
Port Townsend
Lyre Creek
Lake Crescent
Solduck Valley
Straits
Clallam
Hoko
Dickie River
Great Forest