Seattle and North Coast Railroad

New efforts to improve the rail freight loadings were met with stiff competition from a barge-to-rail service (Puget Sound Freight Lines) and Piggyback services to the main-line rail carriers (Union Pacific and Burlington Northern) proved overwhelming to the highly leveraged new company.

Steadily increasing maintenance costs, after years of neglect by the prior operator, finally caused a complete service shutdown followed by abandonment in 1984.

Many adjoining property owners and public land holding agencies sought a legal end to the right-of-ways on the majority of the Line.

The citizens of Port Angeles knew that in order to prosper, a rail line would have to link the town to the rest of the country.

The first was by the U.S. Army during World War I an effort to log the spruce forests around Lake Crescent for warplane production.