Welcome to the Great Northeastern Pacific Southand Western Railroad Company (The Weed Route) Official Website.
This site portrays a photo essay of the first major Weed Route speeder trip on the abandoned Milwaukee Road from Miles City, Montana to Cedar Falls Washington. We made the trip in August 1980, just after the demise of the “Pacific Extension” which was the largest single railroad abandonment in American history.
Eventually, the site will provide links to related articles and photos, as well as a blog for comments and recollections. We hope that historians, interested parties, and old-time railroaders will participate in making this site a special resource on the wholesale abandonment of American railroad lines in the 20th Century.
Other trips will be added, from the Weed Route Archives as time permits. We hope this website will eventually become a major resource for the documentation of abandoned American railroad lines and the towns they left behind.
Inquiries about the Weed Route should be directed to:
Weed Route, Inc. 119 South Fairfax Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 (703) 684-8807
email: dispatcher@theweedroute.com