Northern Pacific wharf and yard at Tacoma, Washington Territory, August 13, 1888. First NP Tacoma station/Blackwell Hotel, center; warehouses, stock pens, and pile driver on pier, a 4-4-0 steam locomotive switches a line of boxcars as more cars await loading, sail and steam vessels at the pier. Rotter photo no. 358, J.M. Fredrickson collection. Other Subject Classes: dock, station, steam locomotive, freight car, railroad yard

Northern Pacific station at Cle Elum, Washington, on December 2, 1967. View from cab of eastbound train, station, train order signal, telegraph operator on platform, yard and Lookout Mountain in distance. Photo by J.M. Fredrickson. Other Subject Classes: station, signal, railroad employee, railroad yard, mountains

Northern Pacific yard at Kyro, Washington, circa 1914. Materials yard, freight cars awaiting loading, boxcar body yard buildings, station and water tank in distance, mainline. J.M. Fredrickson collection. Other Subject Classes: reload yard, freight car, yard structure, station, water tank, track

Northern Pacific yard at Kyro, Washington, circa 1914. Materials yard, freight cars awaiting loading, boxcar body yard buildings, station and water tank in distance, mainline. J.M. Fredrickson collection. Other Subject Classes: reload yard, freight car, yard structure, station, water tank, track

Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company depot at Walla Walla, Washington, circa 1900. J.M. Fredrickson collection. Other Subject Classes: depot

Oregon Trunk depot at Madras, Oregon, undated. Oregon Trunk depot

Amtrak diesel locomotive 343 leading Train 7 at the Great Northern depot, Rugby, North Dakota, looking east in the 1990s. Photograph by Charles W. Bohi.

Pacific Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, circa 1940. Looking north from 11th Street. J.M. Fredrickson collection. Other Subject Classes: street scene,

Pacific Coast Railroad Company station at Maple Valley, Washington, circa 1946. Northeast side of frame two-story station, train order signal, plank platform. Other Subject Classes: railroad stations, railroad signaling.

Pacific Coast Railroad depot at Maple Valley, Washington, undated. Great Northern-owned Pacific Coast Railway depot, photograph by Robert Johnston, from the Norm Keyes Collection.