Posted 10/25/23 by
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This History Along the Great American Rail-Trail® feature explores the timber
industry and creation of two railroads on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in the
early 1900s. The late-1918 completion of the Spruce Railroad, which was meant to aid the war effort, led to a national scandal.