By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:19 EST, 12 September 2013 | UPDATED: 14:31 EST, 12 September 2013 The town of Lester, seen in images from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, in central Washington State was once a service stop for trains running from Seattle to Minneapolis on the Great Northern railway line, but it is now a ghost town. The last surviving resident of the town, which was founded in the 1892 in the picturesque Cascade Mountains, a woman by the name of Gertrude Murphy, died in 2002 at the age of 99. Now, the town stands as a testament to the changing face of America in the post industrial age.
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Lester, Washington's last living resident died in in 2002 at the age of 99
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The town was once a fuel stop for trains but lost its usefulness when they stopped using coal
Breathtaking: The remnants of a warehouse decay ever further in Lester, an old railroad town situated in @placeholder in Central Washington