 The town of Skykomish was officially incorporated on June 5, 1909.From the 1890s to 1974, Skykomish was a maintenance and fueling station for the Great Northern Railway, which eventually became part of the Burlington Northern Railroad, and presently the BNSF Railway.It was also once the western terminus for electric operations (1909–56) on the Cascade Tunnel route all the way to Wenatchee.