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Mount Rainier National Park was dedicated in 1899. At the end of 1904, the Tacoma Eastern railroad route was completed from Tacoma to Ashford. Extensions were later added to stations at Mineral Lake, Tilton, and Ladd.

  • Geographic coverage: United States--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Tourism--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park; Railroad travel--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier National Park
  • Subjects (LCSH): Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.)
  • Categories: Railroad travel; Nature and the environment; Sports and outdoor activities; Tourism and travel
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English: Early Advertising of the West Collection
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English: Tacoma Eastern Railroad
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institution QS:P195,Q219563
Department
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University of Washington: Special Collections
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82
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The "Wonderland of the Cascades" - Mount Tacoma and the Rainier National Park reached over the Tacoma Eastern Railroad..."The combination of ice scenery with woodland scenery of the grandest type is to be found nowhere in the old world, unless it be in the Himalayas, and so far as we know, nowhere else on the American continent"...Visitors to the Northwest should not fail to see this indescribable region with its grand volcanic-glacial peak, 14,528 feet high, 32,500 acres of perpetual ice and snow, 15 separate distinct glaciers with yawning crevasses hundreds of feet deep...
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Washington Magazine Publishing Company
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ADV0300
Company/Advertising Agency
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Tacoma Eastern Railroad
Publisher
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Washington Magazine Publishing Company
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Seattle
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Washington magazine, Vol. 2 (1)

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