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=== Transportation === [[File:DowntownI90.JPG|thumb|Downtown, with the I-90 overpass visible down the street]] [[File:Wallace ID - former train station.jpg|thumb|Former [[Northern Pacific Railway|Northern Pacific]] depot]] Wallace is accessible via [[Interstate 90 in Idaho|Interstate 90]] and [[Idaho State Highway 4|State Highway 4]]. The nearest airport is [[Shoshone County, Idaho|Shoshone County]] Airport (S83), about {{convert|15|mi|round=5||adj=pre|road|spell=in}} west, near [[Smelterville, Idaho|Smelterville]]. In its prime, two railroads served Wallace. The [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation Co.]] ([[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]]) reached Wallace from the west, offering passenger service to [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]] and [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] until about 1958, and freight service to Spokane as late as 1992. The [[Northern Pacific Railway]] approached Wallace from the east with its branch over [[Lookout Pass]] to the NP mainline at [[St. Regis, Montana|St. Regis]], Montana. The former NP depot was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Shoshone County, Idaho|National Register of Historic Places]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |title=Northern Pacific Railway Depot |url={{NRHP url|id=76000681}} |work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=[[National Park Service]]}}</ref> To avoid demolition during freeway construction, it was moved {{convert|300|ft|round=5|spell=in}} south a decade later in 1986<!--May 10-->.<ref name=dpold>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yqopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Te8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4095%2C6584091 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |last=Bond |first=David |title=Wallace depot sees its last departure |date=May 11, 1986 |page=A1}}</ref> Now at Sixth and Pine streets, it currently functions as a local railroad museum. The former NP line was abandoned and removed between St. Regis and [[Mullan, Idaho|Mullan]] in 1980. Union Pacific continued operating the Wallace-Mullan segment of the NP line until abandoning the entire [[Plummer, Idaho|Plummer]]-Mullan route in 1992. After abandonment, this segment of former UP and NP lines was developed into a [[rail trail]], the [[Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes]], which runs from east of Mullan through Wallace, to the [[Washington (state)|Washington]]-Idaho state line west of Plummer.<ref>Google Maps (GPS: 47.472395,-115.9153)</ref> Several miles to the south, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, commonly called the [[Milwaukee Road]], ran transcontinental passenger trains on its [[Milwaukee Road#Pacific Extension|Pacific Extension]] between [[Chicago]] and [[Seattle]] from 1911 to 1961, with freight trains until 1980. After the Milwaukee Road discontinued and abandoned the route, much of it also became a rail trail, the "[[Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area#Route of the Hiawatha Trail|Route of the Hiawatha Trail]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Route of the Hiawatha Bike Trail|url=http://www.skilookout.com/hiawatha/|work=Website|publisher=[[Lookout Pass Ski Area]]}}</ref> Currently, it runs from [[Taft, Montana|Taft]], Montana (near the top of [[Lookout Pass]]), descending west to [[Avery, Idaho|Avery]]. This trail is at least {{convert|15|mi|round=5|spell=in}} distant at its closest point, but as the nearest large community, Wallace advertises itself as the primary jumping off point for trail users. ==== Interstate 90 ==== [[Interstate 90 in Idaho|Interstate 90]] passes through Wallace on an elevated freeway viaduct, completed in 1991. Until then, I-90 traffic used a surface highway previously designated [[U.S. Route 10]] and used the main city streets through downtown. Wallace had the last traffic light on a coast-to-coast {{nowrap|[[Interstate highway]],<ref name=nbtblt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GQNMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1435%2C3117220 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |title=North Bend to bury light |date=October 12, 1978 |page=1 }}</ref><ref name=redltout>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-09-15-9103090905-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |last=Richard |first=Bill |title=It's red lights out in Idaho town |date=September 15, 1991 |access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref>}} a fact that is displayed on signage in downtown Wallace proclaiming it to be "The Last Stoplight." In September 1991, the [[Idaho Department of Transportation]] moved I-90 to a freeway viaduct above the north side of town.<ref name=wbnvid>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Px8SAAAAIBAJ&pg=3731%2C775231 |work=Spokesman-Review |last=Bender |first=David |title=Wallace baptizes new I-90 viaduct |date=September 13, 1991 |page=B1}}</ref> Prior to this, the interstate turned into arterial streets on the western outskirts of town and followed the main road through town before becoming a highway again on Wallace's east side.<ref>Jewell, Mark. "Townspeople bury last traffic signal between Boston, Seattle." (September 14, 1991). Pennsylvania: ''Hazelton Standard-Speaker''.</ref> The section of US-10 through Wallace is now designated [[Interstate 90 Business (Wallace, Idaho)|Interstate 90 Business]]. The [[Federal Highway Administration]] (FHWA) originally planned to build I-90 as an at-grade freeway. This plan would have demolished most of downtown Wallace. In the 1970s, city leaders listed every building in the downtown on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The FHWA had to redesign I-90 to bypass downtown because federal law protects historic places from negative effects of highway construction.<ref name="nrhp" /><ref name=nrhp_new1 /><ref name=nrhp_new2 /> An elevated viaduct was erected.
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