RailPictures.Net Photo: Coast Rail Inc. Fairmont Tamper at Issaquah, Washington by David Honan
 
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» Coast Rail Inc. (more..)
» Fairmont Tamper (more..)
» Issaquah Valley Trolley 
» Issaquah, Washington, USA (more..)
» May 08, 2011
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» David Honan (more..)
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I've lived in Issaquah for more than half a decade and always assumed the small piece of ex-NP track running diagonally through downtown was dormant. Grand plans to reactivate the trolley line, last operated in 2001, have been widely discussed but never come to fruition. Given this history of inactivity, imagine my surprise when driving up Front Street this weekend and coming face-to-face with a tamper parked by the side of the road -- in the words of Dr. Frankenstein, "it's alive!" It turns out that the City Council recently let a contract to Coast Rail to perform track rehabilitation work in preparation for the long-delayed resumption of the tourist operation, which will hopefully be running on about 1/2-mile of track by this summer.
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