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This is a picture I
purchased in 2007. The photographer was a person named
"P.S. Johnson," according to the back of the picture. It's
just too darn cool to keep to myself, despite the fact that I
didn't take it! Heck, my parents hadn't even met when this
was taken.
The building you see
behind the locomotive is the Seattle's Union Station, now
property and headquarters to
Sound Transit (SDRX).
The Milwaukee Road also ran out of Union Station in Seattle,
which was across the track from the King Street Station shared
by Great Northern and Northern Pacific. The view you see
is looking to the southeast, with #1450 headed north towards the
tunnel underneath downtown. This stretch of track still
exists and is very active.
What else was
happening in Seattle around 1948 when this photo was taken?
Well in my research I found an interesting clip about "The
Vigilantes of Vashon Island" repelling a ferry boat
from docking, and a
massive flood on the Columbia
River engulfing Richland and Kennewick. Of course at the
time, Seattle was a small blue collar city filled with
shipyards, railyards (four different carriers ran through the
city), airplane hangers and warehouses. No-one in 1948
could have imagined the high-tech spot Greater Seattle would
eventually hold, or that a lowly drink like coffee would become
synonymous with The Jet City.
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