This site features daily historical railroad posts from the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state. As a personal site, this is my online filing cabinet of interesting things I've come across about railroading in the area. I know it's easy to grab an image from here and post it elsewhere, like Steve Renfrow does, but if you do, could you at least give this site a little credit? Dan Bolyard
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
CWGG Douglas
This information comes from a 1970s Central Washington Grain Growers brochure, showing off their grain facilities.
Douglas
Construction of two new steel tanks, adjacent to the steel elevator, bring Douglas storage capacity to approximately 670,000 bushels. In 1974, Central Washington Grain Growers, Inc. purchased the Waterville Railway Co., and its loading facility at Douglas. Douglas not only receives over 400,000 bushels per year, but serves as a loading point for Waterville grain as well.
Douglas served as the billing point for all grain on the line until 1973 when the Burlington Northern closed the depot and established a traveling agent.
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