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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, Steamboats of the Columbia River, Steamboats of the Oregon Coast, Shipwrecks of the inland Columbia River, Wilson G. Hunt, List of steamboats on the Columbia River, Steamboats of the Coquille River, Enterprise, Steamboats of the Willamette River, Idaho, Shoshone, Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River, Virginia V, T. J. Potter, Multnomah, Colonel Wright, Olympian, Charles R. Spencer, Lot Whitcomb, Ramona, George E. Starr, Athlon, R.R. Thompson, Cascade Locks and Canal, Bailey Gatzert, Belle of Oregon City, Steamboats of Coos Bay, North Pacific, Lurline, Carrie Ladd, Shoalwater, Willamette Chief, Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Canemah, Ruth, Rival, Joseph Kellogg, Washington, Leona, Gazelle, Fleetwood, Governor Grover, Tenino, Onward, Annie Faxon, Georgiana, Altona, Elk, Echo, Nez Perce Chief, Oneonta, Wide West, Beaver, Mary D. Hume, Willamette Steam Navigation Company. Excerpt: The Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company operated a narrow gauge railroad ran for over forty years from the bar of the Columbia River up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta, Washington, on Willapa Bay. The line ran entirely in Pacific County, Washington, and had no connection to any outside rail line. The railroad had a number of nicknames, including the "Clamshell Railroad" and the "Irregular, Rambling and Never-Get-There Railroad." Wagon on North Beach circa 1892. Before the construction of the railroad a wagon like this one was the only way of access to the Long Beach peninsula north of Ilwaco.The initial owners of the company were Lewis Alfred Loomis, Jacob Kamm, I.W. Case, H.S. Gile, and B.A. Seaborg. L.A. Loomis was a pioneer on the Long Beach Peninsula. He had formed the Ilwaco Wharf Company in July, 1874. In addition to Loomis, incorporators of the Ilwaco Wharf Company included Robert C...
