Don’t listen to Grandpa: He didn’t have to walk miles through the snow, uphill both ways, to get to school. Seattle once had a robust mass transit system that brought riders to the farthest reaches of the still-growing city.
Evidence of how the city was shaped by these streetcars, trolleys, trains, and passenger boats still dot the landscape, for those who know where to look.
1) Greenwood Park
A train sculpture commemorates the Interurban trains that stopped around here from 1910 to 1939. Cement arrows point visitors north to Everett and south to Seattle, but the tracks end just a few feet away.
2) Fremont
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