Images of Rail- North Beach Peninsula's IR&N Olivia A. Isil recreational boaters

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so too did the role of the sailor--once bartered by shanghai masters

Images of Rail- North Beach Peninsula's IR&N Olivia A. Isil recreational boatersFor 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, wood cutting, and