Images of Rail- North Beach Peninsula's IR&N Northern Europe By Rocky Snyder

By Rocky Snyder

longshoremen handled cargo

Each route description includes driving and public transit directions to the starting point

Veteran sailor and journalist Brian Gilbert shows you how to select and inspect a boat

Images of Rail- North Beach Peninsula's IR&N Northern Europe By Rocky SnyderFor nearly 40 years, the quirky little narrow gauge railroad, begun in 1889 by the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, ran along the North Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington. The train provided the primary transportation link from Ilwaco in the south to Nahcotta in the north, making peninsula communities accessible to one another and supplying a reliable route to outside markets for the area's major industries oystering, wood cutting, and