The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, WA., October 6, 1922, page 1
PROPOSE RAILROAD FOR UNDERWOOD
Articles of incorporation of the Yakima Southern railroad
company filed at Olympia last week proposes to build a railroad starting
from Underwood and extending to Yakima, costing $5,000,000. Location work,
it is said, will start in a few weeks, construction will start early next
year and rails will be laid to Yakima within 18 months thereafter.
It is the intention to build a new rail line from Underwood
up the White Salmon river and across the Cascade range of mountains to Yakima,
a distance of 86 miles. It is stated this can be accomplished at a maximum
of 1.5 per cent grade by means of a mile-long tunnel through the crest of
the mountains, and a maximum curvature of 10 per cent.
From Underwood to Portland it is proposed to handle traffic
originating in the Yakima valley and other central Washington territory on
barges, it being the belief that the tonnage can be handled at a minimum
of cost in this way.
Plans call for big barges, each propelled by its own
machinery, driven by diesel engines, and equipped to carry refrigerator cars
and their loads to Portland.
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