Spokane as a rail hub

ID: 731
This file appears in: The Great Northern Clocktower

A railroad map showing routes and divisions radiating from Spokane to the Columbia Plateau, Canadian Rockies, Glacier National Park and the Palouse. c. 1920

Source: Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room.


This file appears in: The Great Northern Clocktower

By Clayton Hanson
You are standing next to the clock tower of the former Great Northern station. It is one of the few surviving remnants of Havermale Island as it was from the first years of the 20th century until Expo '74. Though it is one of the only remains…