PORT TOWNSEND — It could cost the city more than $100,000 to clean up damage to an abandoned railroad trestle in Port Townsend Bay broken apart by a windstorm last week.
The wooden trestle, just south of the Port Townsend Marina, was constructed at a time when trains operated between Seattle and Port Angeles.
The trestle was used to load and unload train cars barges traveling between Port Townsend and Seattle.
The Seattle, Port Angeles and Western Railway lines were laid between Port Angeles and Discovery Bay in 1914 and 1915, according to olympicdiscoverytrail.com.
At Discovery Bay, the railroad’s lines tied into the Port Townsend and Southern Railroad line that was built in 1887.
Passenger rail service between Port Angeles and Port Townsend ran from 1915 to 1931, when the car became the transportation of choice.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
