The Hotel Hoquiam was born out of a grand vision for a burgeoning town in the Pacific Northwest. Built in 1889-90 during ...

8, 1883, as the city waited for news that the final railroad spike had been driven in rural Montana to complete the Northern Pacific Railway’s track from here in Lowertown to the West Coast.

Robert Jordan specifically bought his home because of his dream to build a giant model railroad. He spent the next 21 years building the display in his Menomonee Falls basement.

With much of the railroad's main line traversing the many ... One of Great Northern's archrivals was Northern Pacific, its ...