Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Some Local Rail History

I'm being evicted from my office. No, I haven't been fired (not that anyone has told me anyway), but I am being moved out of my office so the boss lady can have it. Instead of moving five years worth of junk to a new office, I've been going through it getting rid of stuff. During the cleaning process, I found the picture below in my file cabinet. I have no idea where it came from. I've seen a lot of old pictures of Spokane, but never that one. I thought it was pretty cool because it shows the old rail yard through what is now Riverfront Park. While we still see lots of trains come through here, the need for a rail yard has greatly diminished as most of those trains are just passing through.

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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.