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Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad
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The Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad (earlier Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company[1][2]) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad[3] and was the first proper railroad to serve Seattle, Washington, preceded only by horse-drawn rail vehicles and by a coal train making the very short haul from Lake Union to Pike Street.[4][3] Despite its ambitious name, actual construction never went beyond King County, the county of which Seattle itself is the seat.[5] After being sold to Henry Villard's Oregon Improvement Company in 1880 it was renamed the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad.[6] In 1916, that became the Pacific Coast Railroad Company.[7]
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