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Timothy D. Sievern posted
Burlington Northern Railroad Depot in Wallace, Idaho, on July 11, 1973. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, © 2015, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Bjorklund-07-28-07
Timothy W. Larreau: Wallace station was built with salvaged bricks from the NP's failed terminus hotel in Tacoma WA. Finances and a great financual crisus stalled the terminus hotels construction half way through...then a great fire in 1898 ended the terminus hotel dream. Wallace and Mizula station were both built with the salvaged bricks. Eventually NP sold off the land and the remains of the terminus hotel to the city of tacoma who compiled a lesser version of the planed greatest hotel on the west coast. It became Tacoma High Scool, then late Stadium High School. The NP and GN lore is deeply woven into Tacoma's History. |
I'm glad that BN simply pout a GN sign over the
NP Monad so that the NP logo could be easily restored when the building was sold.
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