The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad was a railroad founded in Seattle, Washington on April 15, 1885, with the purpose of creating a rail connection between Seattle and the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was taken over by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1892.
In 1971, the right-of-way, by this time part of the Burlington Northern system, was abandoned. Seven years later, in 1978, the 12.1 miles between Seattle's Gas Works Park and Tracy Owen Station in Kenmore was reopened as the Burke-Gilman Trail, named after the leaders of the group that founded the railroad, Thomas Burke and Daniel Gilman .
