Talk:Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
Portal:Trains
 Trains Portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
See also: WikiProject Trains to do list
B This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale. (assessment comments)
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale within the Trains WikiProject.
This article needs a map. Please work with the Maps task force to create and add a map to this article. Once the requested map is added, remove the Mapneeded parameter from the {{TrainsWikiProject}} template call on this page to remove this map request.

[--Slambo 21:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC) ]

To attain FA class: Wikipedia:Featured articles

To attain A class: Wikipedia:How to write a great article. Needs a good introductory paragraph. I made a first draft.

To attain GA class: Wikipedia:Good article

Need fill in the half-dozen instances of [citation needed] in some way. See flags in Notes and references. Sallal Prairie, Rattlesnake Prairie, Rattlesnake Mountain might appear on USGS maps or hiking and trail websites.
The medallion and a couple images would be nice (see Further reading). See WP:Images#Obtaining images; images first printed in the early 1900s and earlier generally have Wikipedia:Copyrights copyright expired.
Finding the following could be useful:
logo_filename= (logo_size= ) marks= --03:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

B class: Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps. [Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Assessment#Quality scale]

--GoDot 17:41, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Proper names

[edit] Wallula

The article states "Walla Wallu, an outpost on the Columbia River near the Tri-Cities." I've never heard of "Walla Wallu," and I've lived in Washington most of my life. I have heard of "Wallula" and "Walla Walla". The first is a small town on the Columbia River and near the Tri-Cities. The second is a larger, but not on the Columbia River and a bit further away from the Tri-Cities.

I don't want to take the initiative to edit the main article in case "Walla Wallu" was or is an actual place and was the correct reference for the article. I would appreciate it if someone with more knowledge in the area (historically, topically, or geographically) could provide the correction.

Thanks. [--67.185.46.253 23:57, 16 February 2006 (UTC)]

I bet "Wallula" is meant, but can't vouch for that, since I didn't write it. --Lukobe 01:22, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Wallula is now a junction of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad owned by Watco Railroads. As you all may know, BNSF merged, BN bought out NP that bought out, etc.
Wallula "is a census-designated place [CDP] located in Walla Walla County, Washington. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 197" (Wallula article).
"PCC map", "Palouse River & Coulee City Railroad (PCC)"
"Ex-NP 'CW' branch closure", "TrainBoard.com > Fallen Flags > Northern Pacific Railroad", page 5 of 8. Dan, SDP45 (20:04 25 January 2006), post 77. "Wallula, WA".
Villard had the line at Wallula and west built by the NP. (Speidel, p. 190.)

Accuracy is a goal "[W]ith the purpose of creating a rail connection to North Dakota via Wallula" has a {{Citation needed}}. So far, references (refs) say its avowed purpose was boostering a transcontinental line east while its real purpose was building a feeder line in order to get bought out by one of the transcontinentals. (Speidel, p.196, 200)

--GoDot 05:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RRoad or RWay

Is the proper noun "Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway" or "Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad"?
Railroad:

Railway:

More of the more credible sites say "Railroad". Does anyone have credible refs, or is it as shown?

--GoDot 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[2] says Railway, as does this stock certificate. The latter makes it very clear, so I'm moving it. --SPUI (T - C) 17:56, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

The stock certificate could be a way cool illustration (plus with 2 scenes, no less). Would the owner of this (SLS&E) stock certificate allow it to GNU use? I believe attribution could be attached to an image used. Or is copyright expired because it was first published before the early 1900s? (See "To attain GA class", above.)
Ken Foshey | Last modified: 08/26/03.

Search found "no records returned" for "Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern", "Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern", "Seattle" found:

  • 1. RAILROAD: Seattle & International Railway (6/30/1896)
  • 2. LINE_OF_RD: Seattle to Sumas, Washington.
  • 3. ORIGIN: Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway
  • 4. CURRENT: Northern Pacific Railway
  • 5. SUCCESSORS: (1901) Northern Pacific Railway [so this is obsolete, not listing the BN and BN-SF]
  • 6. TEXT: P1900 Seattle to Sumas, Washington, 126.30 miles. Woodenville to Sallal Prairie, Washington, 38.45 miles. Ballard Junction to Ballard, 1.10 miles. Bothell to Logging Camp, 3.40 miles. Chartered, June 30, 1898, to take over property and franchises of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway, West of the Cascade Mountains. See Poor's 1899P653. This railroad is owned by the Northern Pacific Railway, but operated independently. The Canadian Pacific Railway has a traffic agreement with this Company. P1901 Northern Pacific Railway Acquired control 2/1898. Branches: Sallal: Woodenville Junction to Sallal Prairie, Washington. Ballard: Ballard Junction to Ballard, Washington. Leased: Monte Cristo Railway: Snohomish to Everett, Washington. Absorbed by Northern Pacific Railway 4/1/1901. PMRL2

What is "Poor's 1899P653", P1901, PMRL2? Can source references be found?

| url =http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_1.asp | title =Results for Submit Query "Seattle" | work =1/24 of results from Railroad History Database

  • 1. RAILROAD: Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway
  • 2. LINE_OF_RD: Seattle to Sumas, Washington.

| url =http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_2.asp | title =Results for Submit Query "Lake Shore" | work =26/27 of results from Railroad History Database

A possible lead is querying about the Seattle & Eastern Construction Company, though that did not appear in the query "Seattle", though that was search_1.asp.

--GoDot 03:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style

Summary: +, cite, so cl, rephrased; see Talk.
Expansion: Added verified relevant text and added citations, so cleaned up and rephrased as needed, per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MoS). Existing writing was retained as much as could. Summary per Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. See also Talk:Seattle, Citing sources.

WP:MoS recommends year need not be linked unless particularly relevant (MoS (dates and numbers)).

WP suggests avoid overlinking dates. Linking the recent decades years (post-1914 or so) may not be sufficiently relevant.
Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context, WP:CONTEXT

It is not useful and can be very distracting to mark all possible words as hyperlinks. [...] It's not always an easy call. [...] This [...] is in dynamic tension with the general rule to build the web.

--GoDot 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Text in the article without citations disagrees with that of text with citations. WP:MoS says that discrepancies among sources should be duly reported. Provision of citations could help resolve, or at least clarify where data is simply inconclusive. The most significant areas are noted <!-- {{tl|Citation needed}} -->.

--GoDot 05:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

<!-- {{tl|Citation needed}} to differentiate from citation following --> noted where needed to distinguish. --GoDot 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Summary: +, gm, cl wrt cit, sp cit Speidel; see Talk:
Explication: Add text, fix grammar, cleanup text in order to correspond to sources, fix spelling of citation for Speidel. I did the citations here being corrected : )`

Preserving the existing writing as much as can, I did not introduce Burke and Gilman until the recent history of the SLS&E line east.

[[Bill Speidel|William Speidel]] corrected to match ISBN and catalog; further, for a professional, that form should be used. I had gotten the "Bill Speidel" from somewhere else. Thanks for making the internal link, I hadn't thought to look. The Bill Speidel article might add assessment or reviews by his historian peers. Even though written for a general audience, his work has thorough bibliographies that include extensive primary sources.

"And ever since, every suburb around the perimeter of the city has been advertised as only 'twenty scenic minutes away from downtown.' <!--citation?-->"
The indented text is explicitly attributed to Speidel at the outset, noted <!-- See Talk -->, footnoted at the conclusion, and explained in Talk post 05:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC) as "[t]he material is all from Speidel". Alternatively, <blockquote></blockquote> could have been used, but that merely indents both margins. Would that help enough?

"In the midst of maneuvering among himself," is rather more awkward than stating that the "maneuvering was among A, B, and C". When names are listed, I think the sentence is more readable when all are in some peer form (unless to some specific purpose), as the "the United Kingdom and France", rather than "the U.K. and France". Cf. WP:MoS # Acronyms and abbreviations, WP:MoS (abbreviations).

Northwest Railway Museum.<ref> since WP:MoS recommends references to other articles are not valid citations.

"The eastern Washington lines": Have these, or will they, become part of the state rails-to-trails system?

No they will not. The right-of-way has long since reverted to adjacent landowners and has been used for other purposes. If these lines had been operated in a more urban setting, and in more recent times, you may be able to use them today as a trail. But at the time this line was abandoned, the "rails to trails" movement had not begun.

Copied to article conclusion. --GoDot 08:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Bug with [Wikipedia:Footnotes#Multiple_uses_of_the_same_footnote|multiple uses of the same footnote]] corrected using <ref name=Foo>Foo</ref> & <ref name=Foo /> command set syntax. (Ed. --GoDot 08:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC))

--GoDot 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accurate content, sufficiently significant content

"Northern Pacific Railway's selection of Seattle's southern rival" is less accurate as well as a little awkward. The NP was an inanimate corporate entity. It didn't actually do--the board of directors, CEO, (and actually, its people) did. In those days of robber barons, Henry Villard, tycoon of the NP, made the selection (Northern Pacific Railway). That the rivalry was intense, if not fierce or passionate, is of greater importance than lateral location (Speidel, pp.180–188).

Sallal Prairie article DNE. So far, on-line searching suggests it and Rattlesnake Prairie are forgotten ghosts.

The reference to "Local historian William Speidel (1967) observed that," is not a quote and has been reworded from paragraphs on several pages. The material is all from Speidel, so he is credited explicitly.

"New York By and By" for "New York Alki" is more correct than "New York Bye and Bye"; "Bye" is such as in "good bye" a derivation from "God be wy you" or "god buy' ye". As such, the inference of "ye" (you) is not present in "Alki" [American Heritage DIctionary, 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2004.].

"The company was placed in receivership" changed to SLS&E to differentiate from GN, the railroad of the preceeding sentence.

"The eastern Washington line became the Spokane & Seattle Railway, which was puchased by the NP in two parts."{{Citation needed}} Where did this come from? Where is how Burke, Gilman, & co. came to build, buy, or run this eastern Washington line? How was this part of the SLS&E? The citations and refs so far say the SLS&E eastward ended a little before North Bend.

The Renz book speaks of the final purchase of the S&S (SLS&E) on page 197. The 2 halves were to build towards each other, connecting somewhere in the middle. The large map in the Reffner book shows the proposed lines. It also shows the branch to North Bend being just that, a branch. The cross state line would start in the Everett area and generally follow Stevens Pass to Wenatchee, going up through Waterville and across the Grand Coulee at Coulee City, then across the Big Bend to Davenport then Spokane. See the map in Kurt Armbruster's book, The Orphan Road, WSU Press, 1999, page 133. --SDP45 10:34, 27 Novembe 2006 (PT)


It has also been reported that the Great Northern used the SLS&E bridge over the Spokane River while the GN was building its own during its transcontinental building in 1893. The source for this information is out there, but I have not located it.

Yahoo! That's good enough for now. This is not a hotly controversial atticle, and maybe a reader will have more clues to identifying source references. Copied your text to article.
Pasting {{copyedit}} at the top of the article might attract copyeditor help.
Summary: +ft, +heads, cl cit, +cite web; see Talk.
Expansion: Add short full text (ft) copied from Talk, add section headings, cleanup citations (mine ; )` for easier reading by casual editors, add cite web template; see Discussion. --GoDot 08:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Louis Tuck Renz references the name changes from SLS&E to the companies the NP purchased in his book, listed below.

As the beginning of this article states, the SLS&E was planned to be a larger railroad than it ultimately became. Construction was started in 2 parts, with the eastern Washington section started in Spokane and headed west. The map in Ruffner's "Report on Washington Territory" shows the proposed line going from Davenport to Coulee City, up the Grand Coulee to Waterville then on to Wenatchee, then along the Wenatchee River up over part of Stevens Pass before cutting over towards the Everett area.

The steam locomootive "A M Cannon," SLS&E number 11, is named after a prominent Spokane resident. Mr. Cannon was very instrumental in the building of the SLS&E in the Spokane area. Book referencing more of Mr. Cannon's involvement, "History of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington, 1889." I have not gotten a chance to see this book to verify more of this.

"[I]s named after": might any SLS&E rolling stock still exist anywhere? For now, text copied to article, "was named after". --GoDot 08:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

--SDP45 10:34, 16 June 2006 (PDT)

[edit] Additional sources for references

  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, 1885-1896. [On-line archive 1986-1999 only, current database 2000-present; The Seattle Times back to 1990 only, checked 21 April 2006.]
    Author, date, article title would be useful for any expansion or verification .

== Further Reading ==

  • "Ex-NP 'CW' branch closure", "TrainBoard.com > Fallen Flags > Northern Pacific Railroad", page 3 of 8. Bibliography re. CW and SLS&E, posts January 5th, 2006, 01:53 AM; January 5th, 2006, 02:02 AM; and January 6th, 2006, 04:09 AM.
  • Lewty, Peter J. (1995). Across the Columbia Plain. Washington State University Press. "A chapter details the building of the CW and the SLSE in the 'Big Bend' country" [Dan, SDP45; post "January 19th, 2006, 02:47 AM"].
  • Renz, Louis Tuck (1980). The History of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Fairfield, Wash: Ye Galleon Press. Recommended or referenced by several sources.

--GoDot 05:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More on accurate, sufficiently significant

Date the SLS&E was taken or absorbed or whatever by the NP is inconsistent among sources, so the three discrepancies are stated, per WP:NPOV. --GoDot 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Identified Winsor Spur

Identified the location of the Winsor spur, removing the Windsor Hills Park in Renton suggestion. The referenced Anderson map shows many towns and railroads that were never built, so Winsor being on it is not definitive as to location (a check on state records of plats is needed) or whether it was the same place (there may have been other Winsors). But a spur built before development would have suited a new town's promoters, and with the line having crossed to the south side of the Sammamish about a mile downstream of Bothell at Wayne (presumably so it could take the easier western side of the Sammamish valley to Redmond), the SLS&E mainline station for Bothell was actually on the wrong side of the river, so a spur along the northern bank in the area shown on the map would make sense regardless of the success of Winsor.
AP61 16:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fixed Gilman text and trails text

1) Reduced the name in the caption of the Snoqualmie Railway Station picture from "Gilman now Snoqualmie" to just "Snoqualmie" - the sign on the building in the picture already says Snoqualmie, and Gilman was the original name for Issaquah not Snoqualmie [as mentioned in the Issquah Wikipedia article and here in relation to the Gilman coal mines, and eg http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/bred/hpp/landmarkDesignations.htm "Issaquah Depot, originally known as Gilman Station"], and elsewhere changed from "Gilman now Snoqualmie" to "Gilman now Issaquah".

2) Reduced the related trail details to being merely that the Burke-Gilman Trail is part of the King County Regional Trail system, rather than correcting the inference that an old SLS&E line became the Snoqualmie Valley Trail, where in fact GN built south from Monroe through Duvall to Tolt (now Carnation) [1910 Railroad Commission map at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/maps_view.aspx?m=31&i=AR_RailroadCommission1910.djvu] and the CM&StP built north from Cedar Rapids to Tolt then bought and operated the GN line [1928 Public Works map at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/maps_view.aspx?m=21&i=SL_railroadmapWA_1928.djvu] [and article at http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=153]. And did not add that a long stretch of the non-rail Tolt Pipeline Trail is needed to get to Duvall from the Burke-Gilman trail [map at http://www.metrokc.gov/parks/documents/rtmap.pdf] - all that detail seems irrelevant in an SLS&E entry.

AP61 16:49, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Corrected location of Sallal Prairie

1) Changed location of Sallal Prairie from "some miles before North Bend" to "just past North Bend" - USGS topographic maps [eg SNOQUALMIE PASS [WA] 1:100000 1973 at http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=47.45088&lon=-121.7569&s=200&size=m&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG100] show Sallal Prairie as the flat area east of North Bend opposite the gap between Rattlesnake Mt and Mt Washington, with BN (ex SLS&E) track reaching it (while CMStP&P track crosses it going from Snoqualmie to the mainline at Cedar Falls), and railroad maps [such as the 1910 Railroad Commission map at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/maps_view.aspx?m=31&i=AR_RailroadCommission1910.djvu] show Sallal beyond North Bend.

2) Corrected relationship with Rattlesnake Praire, which although not named on the maps is plausibly put by http://www.topozone.com in the flat area south of Rattlesnake Lake in the Cedar River valley south of Sallal Prairie, and http://www.cedarriver.org/watershed/tribal.shtml refers to "the Cedar River Pack Trail, which extended from Yakima Pass west along the north bank of the Cedar River to Rattlesnake Prairie" without mentioning going north into the Snoqualmie Valley.

AP61 16:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/e/a/Talk%7ESeattle%2C_Lake_Shore_and_Eastern_Railway_dbb4.html"