Milwaukee Road Viaduct Under Construction
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The viaduct carrying the Milwaukee Road and Union Pacific both connected downtown Spokane to the wider world and formed a wall between it and the Spokane River.
So keen were city boosters to attract railroads that the viaduct was allowed to partially cover the Monroe Street Bridge.
Taken in 1914.
Source: Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room.
This file appears in: The Great Northern Clocktower: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
The Great Northern Clocktower: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
You are standing next to the clock tower of the former Great Northern station. It is one of the few surviving remnants of Havermale Island as it was from the first years of the 20th century until…