This postcard depicts the Spokane’s Great Northern train station, which was also used by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. The water in the foreground is the Spokane River, as the train station was on Havermale Island.
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Spokane had three train stations, one of which was right across the river from the GN station: Union Station, which served Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, and Spokane International. The two stations are both visible in the postcard below, while a close-up of Union Station is below that.
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The Northern Pacific station was located several blocks away from the other two and was the only one that served only one railroad. Although NP was, with GN, co-owner of the SP&S, it exchanged passenger cars with SP&S trains in Pasco, so it didn’t need to connect with the SP&S in Spokane.
When Amtrak took over passenger service, it decided to use the NP station. For a time, the station was painted an ugly greenish-blue color, but in 1994 it was restored into an “intermodal center” that service Amtrak, Greyhound, and Trailways. The photos below show the station in 1986 and after the restoration.
I am glad that I was able to explore this area for a very short time, which would be completely changed forever for Expo 74. When I was about 13 I took a circle trip from my home in Seattle via the NP Mainstreeter overnight to Spokane, then back on the GN’s Western Star the same afternoon. I remember well venturing from the NP station at daybreak, going past Union Station, & seeing the “SI” logo in gold leaf on a window. (I really wish I had gone inside!) I then crossed the river to the GN station. I remember sitting on a bench in the morning sun at the GN station, and watching a train appear from the west on the elevated tracks across the river at Union Station with a very long string of stock cars, at the end of which was a single yellow coach that stopped briefly at the station before moving off again. That train I found out later was the UP’s “City of Hinkle”.
That’s a great story! Was this something that you wanted to do on your volition or was it just a circumstance?
I didn’t get to do anything that adventurous at 13, although I might have liked to. I was born in Colfax, but grew up in Spokane, so I remember a lot of the railroad yards, and a few of the stations. I was about 15 when they tore it out for Expo 74, I remember a lot of people were very grateful that Spokane was chosen because even though that area was hugely historic, it was apparently a magnet for homeless people. Of course, 40+ years later we still don’t know what to do about that problem.
I grew up in the Spokane Valley, 1 block north of Sprague. There were 2 sets of parallel train tracks because the line had a switch just past where it crossed over Sprague near Argonne. The line further to the north ran over to Spear Road and there was like a very small train station where the line ended. There are businesses in there now, but I would like to know when it was built and why. By the 60’s it was no longer in use and sat vacant for many years. I had been reading elsewhere that the railroad tycoons had a lot of money and to avoid taxes they would build magnanimous buildings that may or may not be needed at the time. There was also a brickyard where the current Vista Industrial Park is located, maybe they just had leftover bricks, but it was a nice little piece of property with a very sturdy looking brick building that the railroad did something with? I would just love to know the back story, but it’s such an out of the way place, probably not many records?