H&H Railroad
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 Stanwood Street Railway - Livery in Connection
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The H&H Railroad , also known as Hall & Hall , Stanwood Street Railway or colloquially Dinky , ran on a mile (1.6 km) long route from East Stanwood to Stanwood in Washington State . At that time it was considered to be "the shortest steam train in the world".
location
The short railway line connected the newly built station on the Great Northern Railway with Stanwood Mills. The railroad tracks ran eastward along 271st Street from a stop near what is now Bank of America to the East Stanwood depot on the south side of the street, roughly where the sidewalks are now.
history
Stanwood was settled in the 1870s and received its first station on the Seattle and Montana Railroad , later the Great Northern Railway , in October 1891 . The station was in the less flood-prone area 1.6 kilometers outside the city center, which was on the Stillaguamish River , so that in 1904 the construction of a railway line was necessary to better connect it.
The railway was operated by John W. Hall (1870-1931), his wife Alice and later his son Jesse. He hired a crew to demolish a corner of his stall on Market Street and Saratoga Street to relocate his H&H Railroad to East Stanwood. From 1904, people and cargo were transported through the swampy and muddy area on the Dinky.
HC Anderson (1865–1914) was its main investor and the Stanwood Lumber Company was initially its main customer. Occasionally it was used by school children on their way to school. It was hailed in the news as the dawn of modern times with the introduction of streetcars that were also relocated to other parts of Snohomish County. In later years there was no more passenger transport and freight transport was heavily dependent on the needs of Stanwood Mills. The operation was stopped in 1938 due to the low volume of traffic and competition from motor vehicles.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Karen Prasse: Stanwood - Thumbnail History. Essay 8557. In: HistoryLink May 4, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ↑ Alice Essex, The Stanwood Story. Volumes 1-3, Stanwood, Stanwood News, Volume 1, 1971, pp. 25, 26, 62, 92-93 and Volume 2, 1975, p. 110. Quoted by Karen Presse .
- ^ A b Carol Schmidt: News Files: Shortest steam train ran a mile in 1907 . In: Stanwood Camano News , July 4, 2017. Retrieved July 7, 2018. See also: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iWbaArvm5k4J:https://www.goskagit.com/scnews /news/news-files-shortest-steam-train-ran-a-mile-in/article_758904fb-9cb7-58e4-895f-8f226c318858.html.
- ↑ Karen Prasse: Railroad between Seattle and British Columbia is completed near Stanwood on October 12, 1891. . In: HistoryLink . September 13, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- ↑ Rocks For roadbed . In: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , October 15, 1891, p. 5. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- ↑ a b Stanwood Station Project . Washington State Department of Transportation . Pp. 1-3. May 2006. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
- ↑ Twin Cities: Stanwood and East Stanwood . In: The Seattle Times , October 30, 1949, p. 1.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project : The WPA Guide to Washington: The Evergreen State (= American Guide Series). Works Progress Administration , 1941, pp. 476-477, OCLC 881468746 ( Accessed July 7, 2018).