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Pacific Coast Railroad
Pacific Coast
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Created in 1897 following the bankruptcy and reorganization of the Oregon Improvement Company, the Pacific Coast Company converted the track of the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad to standard gauge and in 1916 changed the name of that railroad to the Pacific Coast Railroad. The Pacific Coast Railroad operated freight and passenger trains between Seattle and several mining/lumbering centers in the western Cascade mountains some forty miles to the east along three main branch lines. In 1951 the Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) purchased stock control of the Pacific Coast Railroad and took over operations. The Pacific Coast Railroad continued to exist on paper as a subsidiary of the Great Northern until 1970, when it disappeared in the merger that created the Burlington Northern.
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