Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad was a railroad founded in Seattle, Washington on April 15, 1885. It was taken over by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1892. The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern was started by a group of men headed by Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman with the purpose of creating a rail connection between Seattle and the Canadian Pacific Railway. This article is a stub article. You can help Wikipedia by improving it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.