North Beach Peninsula’s IR&N
North Beach Peninsula’s IR&N by Sydney Stevens, published by Arcadia Publishing in 2009, is an illustrated exploration of the unique narrow-gauge railroad that operated for nearly 40 years along the North Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington. This edition, comprising 127 pages, delves into the history of the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, which began its service in 1889. The railroad served as a vital transportation link between Ilwaco and Nahcotta, connecting local communities and facilitating access to markets for industries such as oystering, logging, and cranberry farming.
Readers will discover the distinctive characteristics of the IR&N, which operated on a schedule dictated by tide tables rather than traditional timetables, allowing for coordination with steamers at both ends of its routes. The book captures the fond memories of local residents who recall the train’s informal service and its reputation as the “Irregular, Ramblin’ and Never-get-there Railroad.” Through historical insights and pictorial elements, this work provides a glimpse into the transportation history of the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing the significance of railroads in shaping local economies and communities.
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For nearly 40 years, the quirky little narrow-gauge railroad, begun in 1889 by the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, ran along the North Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington. The train provided the primary transportation link from Ilwaco in the south to Nahcotta in the north, making peninsula communities accessible to one another and supplying a reliable route to outside markets for the area’s major industries–oystering, logging, and cranberry farming. A tide table, not a timetable, governed the railroad’s schedule, allowing coordination with the steamers that met the train at either end of its daily journeys. Old-timers of the area still speak affectionately of the train’s unorthodox schedule and its informal and accommodating service. And they remember with fondness that the IR &N was widely known as the “Irregular, Ramblin’ and Never-get-there Railroad.”
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