Construction of the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Line,circa 1906
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This photo shows a crew working on a stretch of Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad somewhere in the Palouse circa 1906. Steam shovels were often used,but when unavailable,crews used wagons,horse teams and shovels (as in this photo).
Image courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1571/rec/2
This file appears in: The Interurban Railroad
The Interurban Railroad
All but forgotten today, the Palouse once had its own mass transit--the S&IE Interurban Railway, affectionately known as "the Bug."
As the population of the western states dramatically increased in the early 20th century, railroad…