Laconia Railroad Station, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington.

This winter scene of the Laconia Railroad Station, at the summit of Snoqualmie Pass, was photographed sometime between 1910 and 1915. The original Sunset Highway ran along the back side of the buildings seen across the tracks in this photograph. The rock peak seen in the middle background of this photograph is Guye Peak, and the more distant snowy peak to the left of Guye Peak is Snoqualmie Mountain. The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, a subsidiary of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, began hauling freight over the Snoqualmie Pass route, through Laconia, in 1909. Passenger service over this route began in 1910. The Laconia Railroad Station was located below the present Snoqualmie Pass ski hill. The eastbound steam train seen in this photograph is approaching the location about where the present day segment of road is now located along the front of the Traveler's Rest. Laconia was bypassed when the 2.3-mile Snoqualmie Pass tunnel between Hyak and Rockdale opened in January, 1915. The railroad tunnel is now part of the John Wayne Pioneer Trail / Iron Horse State Park corridor.

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