As Sound Transit inaugurates commuter trains between Bellevue and Redmond, when was the last time passenger rail service was offered on the Eastside?
The old Kirkland Depot as it appeared on July 27, 1964; passenger rail service on the Eastside ended in July 1922.
The stretch of tracks from Black River Junction to Woodinville was completed in 1905 and was called the Lake Washington Belt Line. The line was in use for freight until 2008, and the old “Spirit of Washington Dinner Train” traveled regularly from Renton to the winery in Woodinville between 1992 and 2007.
By looking at old Northern Pacific employee timetables, Sprau calculated that it took about one hour and 10 minutes to get from King Street Station to Woodinville. The ticket price, Sprau estimated, might have been as little as 25 cents when service ended in 1922. “That put a dent in railroad operations all over the country,” Sprau told KIRO Newsradio. “And one of the things that, consequent to the strike, was didn’t shut the railroads down like they were trying to do, but they did make operations real difficult.”
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