During the early days, when the train and the railroad was king, there was the “Prairie Line” of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company that hauled passengers and goods and valuable trade like lumber all throughout the Northwest including the great State of Washington, with the quite but persevering logging town of Hoquiam being part of that network of railroads.
Some of the trains of the Prairie Line proceeded west from Lakeview to Nisqually on the American Lake Line going towards Grays Harbor destinations of the cities of Hoquiam and Moclips. The following trains were then serving these destinations for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; The “Grays Harbor Limited”, trains # 421 and #422, the “Grays Harbor Express”, trains # 423 and # 424, and the “Puget Sound Express”, with trains # 465 and #466 running through these lines.
What remained in the town is the Train Depot, Built in 1914 this is where the great and powerful trains of the prairie line once got repaired and rested from their long, eventful trips from city to city, state to state. This station served as a terminus for three transcontinental railroads, the Puget Sound & Pacific railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, and of course the Northern Pacific Railway.
In 1914, a train depot was erected in the logging town of Hoquiam to serve as the terminus or the end of the line for three railroads of the North Pacific Railroad Company, these were the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways, The Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railways. The train depot is one of the few remaining witnesses to a bygone era of the Prairie Line that was also part of the history of the residents then.
1955 was the last year that a person bought a ticket and set foot on a train in Hoquiam station, but as progress and time would have it, the Prairie Line and the men of the railroad had to give way sooner or later and give way they did because it was the nature of the railroad, it was its purpose, to bring progress through wherever it went and ended, and it gave some of it to the town and the people did not forget.
The city and its residents have and will always be passionate lovers of history and heritage, this attitude has been proven worthwhile and honorable in many instances throughout its time as a community and the train depot is a testament to this attitude. Unfortunately for the rest of the Prairie Line with its old locomotives and disused railroads and dilapidated stations and depots, they will pass history and slowly fade away through rust and rot never to be seen or heard from again inevitably.
But fortunately, this is not true with the city of and its residents, who have always been proud and appreciative of what the trains made possible for their community before. A USD $1.2 million grant from the federal government, through the Federal Highways Department made it possible for city officials and residents to refurbish and keep alive the grandness of the old but beautiful train depot that was donated to the City and its people by the respectable Burlington Railroad Company who were the owners of the 96 year old depot before the donation.
The station has been extensively rehabilitated and converted to serve as a Washington State Driver Licensing station for a lease of 10 years, with a portion of the lease updates going to the future rehabilitation and maintenance of the historic, beautiful and still useful train depot. The fate of the once proud “Prairie Line”. A railroad line that was once fought over and sought-after as the most vital feature for development for local Northwest communities is mostly to be forgotten and laid to waste, but not in the City of Hoquiam were traditions and heritage are always something they cherish, just like the restored train depot, its not only serving the city residents but people from all over the state of Washington just like it was meant to be when it was first built.
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