Great Northern Railroad

Now as the Tiger Trail, a rails to trails. GNR first cam to the Republic area in 1902 to supply the mines, bring building supplies, haul ore to Canadian smelters and transport students to college and shoppers to Spokane. Once Republic's main link to the outside world, Kettle Falls International Railway, the most recent railroad company running on the line, filed to abandon the railroad corridor on June 23, 2006, and successfully railbanked by Ferry County in 2009.

http://www.hansenwoodlandfarm.com/Ferry-County/railroad-trail.html

http://www.gngoat.org/southern_bc.htm

[Lynne]

Wonderful shot. Love places like this.

[Leana Niemand]

That looks a great place to ride!

[J A Byrdlip]

@leananiemand I have found no information that these were narrow gauge (3ft gauge) tracks, so the grades wouldn't be over 3%. The trail is suppose to go all the way to the Canadian border, but I was doing geocaching at the same time, so only went 1 mile on the trail. The latest photos I have seen, the connecting Canadian tracks go right up to the border, then end...