Walla Walla Valley

Remembering southeastern Washington's orchard country interurban railway. The Walla Walla Valley Railway was a 14-mile shortline operating between Walla Walla, Washington and the Oregon border town of Milton-Freewater. Owned for much of its life by Northern Pacific (and later, Burlington Northern), WWV was chartered as a streetcar line in 1905, expanding through the fruit orchards of the southern Walla Walla valley the next year as an interurban. Passenger trains stopped running in 1931, but WWV continued as a freight operation, competing with Union Pacific for fruit and vegetable traffic in busy Milton-Freewater. by Blair E. Kooistra

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