Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Locomotives Of Grand Coulee


Compiled by John Taubeneck and posted here with his permission.

GRAND COULEE DAM RAILROAD

1934-1950

On June 18, 1934 the contract was let for the foundations of Grand Coulee Dam. The winning bidder was Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co. a consortium of Silas Mason Co., Inc., Walsh Construction Co. and Atkinson-Kier Co. Their work was finished on March 12, 1938. On December 10, 1937 the contract to finish the dam was let to Consolidated Builders, Inc. This was a consortium consisting of MWAK and Six Companies, Inc. (Kaiser Construction Co, Morrison Knudsen Co., Utah Construction Co., J. J. Shea Co., Pacific Bridge Co., McDonald & Kahn Co. and General Construction Co.) Work was finished on the contract January 31, 1943.

In order to facilitate the construction of the dam a railroad had to be built from the Northern Pacific RR at Odair, WA about 28 miles to the dam site. The contract was let to the David H. Ryan Construction Co. on July 18, 1934, construction started in mid-August. Track laying was begun early in October. On November 10, 1934 it was reported that the first locomotive on the road would arrive the next week. Only about 1½ miles of track had been laid by that time. A golden spike was driven to signify the completion of the railroad on December 8, 1934 but much work still needed to be done. The first freight train consisting of six cars of ties passed through the Grand Coulee four days later. Operation of the railroad was handed over to MWAK on July 19, 1935 and the grand opening of the line was held ten days later. A rod engine was used from Odair to Mason City then Shays were used for the five miles to the dam site. This last stretch included two miles of 5% grade. By 1936 the Northern Pacific was running cement trains directly to Mason City.

David H. Ryan Construction Co.

07-18-34 to 07-19-35

Besides the Heisler Ryan also used a steam locomotive crane of unknown ancestry to build the line.

Heisler
1444
09-20 3 truck 75 tons 17x15
Union Lbr. Co. Packwood Spur, WA
Hedlund Lbr. & Mfg. Co. Marcus, WA
David Ryan Construction Co. Coulee Dam, WA
(tender added)
Lettered ”Coulee Dam-Ryan Siding RR”
US War Department Fort Peck, MT
http://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Roy-Thompson-Photos/19111117_tCBmzV#1487703413_DLxwQ28

Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co.

07-19-35 to 03-18-38

Consolidated Builders, Inc.

03-18-38 to 11-16-42

Alco
67371
07-27 2-10-2T 22x28 134 tons
Sugar Pine Lbr. Co. #5 Pinedale, CA
Pensacola Co. (D) Pinedale, CA 11-35
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co. #800 Mason City, WA (Grand Coulee Dam)
(tender added)
Consolidated Builders #800 Mason City, WA 03-18-38
H. J. Kaiser Co. #1119
Scrapped 1947
Baldwin

21732
03-03 2-8-0 22x30 (built as 17&28x30) 90 tons
Southern Pacific RR #2673
M. F. Brady & Son (D) 07-06-35
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co. #2673 Grand Coulee Dam, WA
here 07-29-35
Derelict by 10-37
http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/clipping&CISOPTR=22307&CISOBOX=1&REC=17
http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/clipping&CISOPTR=22305&CISOBOX=1&REC=20
Browning Crane & Shovel

Unknown locomotive crane ordered by MWAK 10-34

Davenport
2203
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co. Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders Mason City, Wash 03-18-38
Becker Sand & Gravel Co. no# Cash, SC
Derelict 1975

2204
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2205
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2206
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2207
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co. Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2208
9/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2209
1/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2210
12/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2211
1/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2212
12/1935 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38

2219
2/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders, Mason City, Wash 03-18-38
Harian Construction Co. Republic City, NE

2220
2/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)

2221
3/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)

2222
3/1936 B Std Cat DE10
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier & Co., Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)

2273
2/1939 B Std Cat D17000 DM23
Consolidated Builders #830, Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Hay & Co. Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
Muskoka Wood Products Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Weldwood of Canada Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
G. W. Martin Lbr. Co. n# Huntsville, Ontario, Canada (out of service 1985)
(Now G. W. Martin Wood Products, stored here 2008)

2274
3/1939 B Std Cat D8800 DE10
Consolidated Builders #831 Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)
Consolidated Builders Mill City, OR (Detroit Dam 1949-1953)
U S Army #7186
Dulian Steel Portland, OR here 01-68 still in Army paint

2275
3/1939 B Std Cat D8800 DE10
Consolidated Builders #832 Mason City, Wash (Grand Coulee Dam)

The 10-ton diesel electrics were used to move concrete from the batch plant to pouring sites. Each pulled a single car with four concrete buckets. They were numbered in the 300s. There are a number of the MWAK & CB Davenport 10-ton diesel electrics (c/n 2203-2212, 2219-2222, 2274 & 2275) still in existence. However, they are not individually identifiable.

U&I Sugar Toppenish, WA
Yakima Valley Rail & Steam Museum Toppenish, WA
two at the World Mining Museum in Butte, MT identified as “homebuilt”
two at Franco Railroad Contractors Spokane, WA 07-27-68
unknown contractor Upper Baker River Dam Concrete, WA
Oeser Cedar Co. Bellingham, WA (late 1950s)
Oregon Electric Ry Museum Brooks, OR 1999? (here 2011)
Gilmore Steel Vancouver, WA (thought scrapped)
Unknown Carson City, NV
(This may be the gas mechanical at the Nevada State RR Museum and not from MWAK.)

Atkinson Construction Co. #28012 (#601)
Photographed at the Scott Paper log dump in Renton, WA 1960s.
Columbia Construction Co. Bonneville Dam
US Government Bonneville Dam
Harvey Aluminum Co. #099 “Old Yellow” The Dalles, OR 1958
Martin Marietta Aluminum #99 The Dalles, OR
Northwest Aluminum Co. #099 “Old Yellow” The Dalles, OR
The Dalles Chamber of Commerce (display) The Dalles, OR 1990
Oregon Coast Historical Railway Coos Bay, OR 2010

This locomotive is mistakenly identified as a Plymouth.
The Purdy Co. Chehalis, WA 04-73
The Purdy Co. Chehalis, WA 05-77 (not same loco as above)

Lima
909
09-21-04 3 truck Shay 75 tons 13½x15
California Northwestern Ry Co. #32 San Francisco, CA; For:
Northwestern Redwood Co. (California & Northwestern Ry) #1, Willits, CA
Northwestern Pacific RR Co. #32>251 Willits, CA
Hutchinson Lumber Co. (leased) Feather Falls, CA 05-01-22)
Portland, Eugene & Eastern RR #251 (leased) Eugene, OR
For sale: Repaired to make more salable at Tiburon, CA 09-26-25
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co. #251>802 Grand Coulee Dam, WA 04-24-35
Consolidated Builders, Inc. #802 Grand Coulee Dam, WA 03-14-38
M. Bloch & Co. Mason City, WA for scrap 01-12-45
Scrapped 01-45

3108
08-18-20 3 truck Shay 70 tons 12x15
Merrill & Ring Lumber Co. #5 Pysht, WA
Columbia Construction Co. #5 Vail, WA 12-10-36
(Used in a rock quarry near Vail, WA. Rock for use on jetty construction at the mouth of the Grays Harbor and the Columbia River.)
Consolidated Builders Inc. Grand Coulee Dam, WA 1938??
Consolidated Builders Inc. Tenino, WA (Vail quarry) 02-17-48
(Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser’s Vail-McDonald Operation, pages 114-119
states that Shay C/N 3108 was at the quarry near Vail from January 1936 until late 1948.)

3295
05-27-26 3 truck Shay 70 tons 12x15
Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. #200 Quilcene, WA
Clyde Equipment Co. (D) Seattle, WA 04-13-35
Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier #200 Grand Coulee Dam, WA 01-28-36
Consolidated Builders Inc. #200 Grand Coulee Dam, WA 03-14-38
Potlatch Forest Inc. #200 Headquarters, ID 06-13-44
Potlatch Forest Inc. (Washington Idaho & Montana Ry #200) Bovill, ID
Scrapped 1949
first Shay used on five miles from Electric City to dam 5% grade

Shay #801 returned to service 12-25-41 after more than year’s shut down, replaces light diesel

US Bureau of Reclamation

11-16-42 to 08-31-50

Baldwin

29450
11-06 0-6-0 20x25
Denver & Rio Grande RR #835 to #54
Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation #23-1 12-42
locomotive bought from D&RG by Bureau of Reclamation to replace Consolidated Builders equipment at Grand Coulee Dam Spokane Review 08-13-42

Plymouth

4485
04-43 4w gas STD 250 35 tons ML8
US Army #7604 Ephrata, WA (here 1945)
Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation #23-6 Odair, WA 1946
(for sale 11-29-51)
Photographed with two cars of tourists going from Vista House to West
Powerhouse 12-46 (fuel tank on cab roof)
White City Terminal & Utility Co. #2 White City, OR 1954-55
Norman Holms (D) 1974
Mount Vernon Terminal RR #4 Mount Vernon, WA 1975
Nathon Harper Gig Harbor, WA (never moved here)
Camp 6 (Western Forest Industries Museum) (leased) Tacoma, WA
Yakima Interurban Lines (leased) Yakima, WA (here 1997)
Modoc Technical School Stockton, CA 2000
Unknown 4w 30 tons?

Bureau of Reclamation lettered “HO 39 3715” Grand Coulee Dam, WA
Shown in Spokane Daily Chronicle 06-27-49 coupled to open passenger car made
from a flat car with a roof.
Number matches sequence used by the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford, WA. Most likely Plymouth C/N 4562, 4564, 4776 or 4777.
Unknown 4w 30 tons?
Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation #4620.4
Most likely same locomotive as “HO 39 3715”
Undated photo on tourist train.
Ruberneck railroad started in 1946, #23-6 in use
12-49 track near Vista house removed, end of tourist trains
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19470126&id=MF0zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ReUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6355,3159731
http://grandcouleerailroad.blogspot.com/

unknown (Davenport?)

unknown 4W 25 tons? Side rods (possibly Davenport 2273)

Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation #23-2

Overhauled at powerhouse Spokane Daily Chronicle 04-20-45

http://news.google.com/newspaper?nid=1338&dat=19450420&id=ONlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cfUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=975,4025525 top of page

Copyright John A. Taubeneck
Seattle, WA
October 8, 2011

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Locomotives of Hanford

Compiled by John Taubeneck and posted here with his permission.


LOCOMOTIVES THAT BUILT THE BOMB

HANFORD, WASHINGTON

1943-2000

A big thanks to Allen Stanley, Robert Lehmuth, Don Rogers, H. L. Goldsmith, D. J. Shelburne, Joseph A. Strapac, P. Allen Copeland, Ken Ardinger , Ted Ferkenhoff and Thomas Lawson. Without their work this roster would have been impossible.

Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford by S. L. Sanger & Craig Wollner gives this brief accounting of railroading at Hanford 1943-1946:

44 locomotives
460 railroad cars
5 locomotive cranes
158 miles of track

The locomotives at Hanford received numbers starting with HO 39. The steam locomotives usually had the last three digits on the front number board and head light. Below is what I could put together on this sequence.

39 202
PRR-Juniata 0-6-0 C/N 2166 12-10 19x26 56”
Pennsylvania RR #954
River Terminal Co. #48 09-37
Hanford Engineering Works #39 202
US Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, CA
For sale 04-47

39 205
Alco 4-6-2
Northern Pacific #2127 or 2139

39 209
Baldwin 0-6-0 C/N 37376 12-11 21x16 57” 80 tons
Bingham & Garfield RR #300
Utah Copper Co. #300
Hanford Engineering Works #39 209
Stored Bonneville Dam, OR
San Bernardino Engineers Depot, San Bernardino, CA

39 213
GE 80 ton? (lettered U.S.A. ME)
(Head on collision with #39 217, four men killed 01-13-44.) http://www5.hanford.gov/ddrs/common/findpage.cfm?AKey=N1D0067277


39-217
Alco 4-6-2 C/N 39492  1906  22x26  69"  110 tons
Northern Pacific #2122
Dupont de Nemours & Co. RME #39 217 (leased)   09-43

(Head on collision with #39 213, four men killed 01-13-44.)
Sold to Dupont 06-01-44




39 219
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 19569 10-01 21x28 56½”
Alabama Midland #531
Atlantic Coast Line #701
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA
US Army Hanford, WA 10-16-43
Hanford Engineering Works #39 219
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR (Listed for sale 12-07-45)
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 220
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 23145 11-03 21x28 56½”
Atlantic Coast Line #707
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA
US Army Hanford, WA 10-16-43
Hanford Engineering Works #39 220
US Marine Corps Air Station #39 220 Miramar (San Diego), CA
Stored on ATSF San Diego, CA 11-44
For sale 12-07-45
Hyman-Michaels Co. 01-47
Scrapped

39 224
McMyler Interstate steam locomotive crane (USA)



39 227
Alco/Brooks 2-8-0 C/N 26186 10-02 21x32 55”
Central of Georgia #1020>120 (1925)
Robert & Co. Associates (D) 03-43
US Army #120 Hanford, WA
Hanford Engineering Works #39 227
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR
US Army Camp Adair, OR 06-45 (stationary boiler)
Listed for sale 12-07-45
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 228
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 26857 11-05 22x28 51”
Western Maryland RR #506
Greenbriar, Cheat & Elk #120 1930
Western Maryland RR #506 1934
Pardee & Curtin Lbr. Co. (leased?)
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA 01-44
Hanford Engineering Works #39 228 01-31-43
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR (Listed for sale 12-07-45)
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 229
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 26915 11-05 22x28 51”
Western Maryland RR #509
Greenbriar, Cheat & Elk #125 1930
Western Maryland RR #509 1934
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA 01-44
Hanford Engineering Works #39 229 01-31-43
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR (Listed for sale 12-07-45)
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 230
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 26939 11-05 22x28 51”
Western Maryland RR #513
Greenbriar, Cheat & Elk #123 1930
Western Maryland RR #513 1934
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA 01-44
Hanford Engineering Works #39 230 01-31-43
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR (Listed for sale 12-07-45)
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 231
Baldwin 2-8-0 C/N 26980 12-05 22x28 51”
Western Maryland RR #518
Greenbriar, Cheat & Elk #122 1930
Western Maryland RR #518 1934
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA 01-44
Hanford Engineering Works #39 231 01-31-43
Stored at Bonneville Dam, OR
US Army Camp Adair, OR 06-45 (stationary boiler)
Listed for sale 12-07-45
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

39 238
Baldwin C/N 70856 VO 1000 05-44
US Army #7225 Hanford, WA
Hanford Engineering Works #39-238
Nickel Processing Co. of Cuba #39 238

39 242
GE  C/N 27568  80T D/E  07-28-44  B-B  Std 38” 500hp  Center cab
E I DuPont de Nemours –operator for-

US Army #7385, Hanford Ordnance Works   Hanford, WA
US Atomic Energy Commission #39-242   Hanford, WA
(Photo shows lettered for U.S.A. with both numbers.)
US Navy, Naval Supply Depot #7 (USN #65-00511)   Seattle, WA  04-07-67 http://www5.hanford.gov/ddrs/common/findpage.cfm?AKey=N1D0004708


39 3715






Plymouth 30 ton
Interior Department Bureau of Reclamation #4620.4
Grand Coulee Dam, WA (here 06-49)

39 3719
GE 15669 80T D/E 08-17-42 B-B Std 500hp Center cab
E I DuPont de Nemours –operator for-
US Army #7007, Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
Birmingham Rail & Loco (D)/Pan American Engineering (D) 11-22-66
Pittsburgh Plate Glass #3719, Chemical Div. Lake Charles, LA



39 3721
Baldwin DE here 08-47

39 3722
GE 80 tons here 04-48, gone by 1968

39 3724
Baldwin VO1000 C/N 71745 04-45
US Army #V-1800 Oakland, CA
AEC Hanford #39 3724
Alaska RR #1300 10-49
Retired 10-57
Scrapped 01-68

39 3725
GE 80 tons C/N 15742 10-42
General Electric #2, Nucleonics Project Richland, WA
US Atomic Energy Commission #39 3725 Hanford, WA
US Army #7268 Ogden Depot Ogden, UT
US Navy #65-00500, Naval Ammunition Depot Hawthorne, NV 03-66

39 3726
GE 80-tonner here 03-48

39 3727
GE here 03-48

39 3728
GE here 06-47

39 3729
Alco RS1 C/N 75844 06-48
General Electric Corp. #39 3729 Hanford, WA
DOE #39 3729
Placed on display at B Reactor 05-11

39 3730
Alco RS1 C/N 76206 10-49
General Electric Corp. #39 3730 Hanford, WA
DOE #39 3730
Twin City Metals Kennewick, WA (here 04-78)
Scrapped

39 3731
Alco RS1 C/N 76210 10-49
General Electric Corp. #39 3731 Hanford, WA
DOE #39 3731
Placed on display at B Reactor 05-11



39 3732
Alco RS1 C/N 76211 10-49
General Electric Corp. #39 3732 Hanford, WA
DOE #39 3732
Twin City Metals Kennewick, WA (here 04-78)
Scrapped

39 3733
EMD GP7 C/N 15710 09-51
US Army #1840
Department of Energy #39 3733
Washington State Railroads Historical Society Pasco, WA (here 02-06)



39 5922
EMD GP7 C/N 15692 08-51
US Army #1822
Department of Energy #39 5922 (reported here 1975)
US Department of Defense
Florida Gulf Coast RR Museum Parrish, FL 1993
(lettered USAX 1822)

3727 EMD MP15AC C/N 836053-1 12-83
DOE #3727
Tri-City RR #15 2000
Tri-City & Olympia RR #15 2002

3728
EMD MP15AC C/N 836059-1 10-82
DOE #3728
Tri-City RR #16 2000
Tri-City & Olympia RR #16 2002


undated photo shows steam locomotives #?, 229 & 230



Shortly before the steam locomotives were retired they were given an USAPO number painted on the cab. There was also a RFC number chalked on the tender and written on the inspection cards. The significance of these numbers is unknown.

HEW#    USAPO#    RFC#
30 202    20642
39 219    20643         3770
39 220    20616
39 227    56097
39 228    56096         3773
39 229    56095         3772
39 230    56094         3771
39 231    56093


The locomotives listed bellow probably filled the gaps in the HO 39 number sequence.

Alco
28247
1903 2-8-0 22x30 (later 23x30) 57”
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry #758>6600
Central Locomotive Co. (D) to
Akron, Canton & Youngstown RR #356 05-29
(retired 1941)
US Army Defense Plant Corp. Hanford, WA Works
Unknown Aluminum plant Spokane, WA 1945
(stored Spokane International RR shop Spokane, WA 08-46)

39492
1906 4-6-2 22x26 69” 110 tons
Northern Pacific RR #2122
Dupont de Nemours & Co. (leased) 09-43
(wrecked 01-44 and sold to Dupont 06-01-44)

39497
1906 4-6-2 22x26 69” 110 tons
Northern Pacific RR #2127
Dupont de Nemours & Co. #2127 06-01-43

42493
1907 4-6-2 22x26 69” 110 tons
Northern Pacific RR #2139
Dupont de Nemours & Co. #2139 06-01-43 (here 1945)
One of these 4-6-2s was photographed lettered USA #205.

70389
0-6-0 09-21-42 21x28 50” 80 tons
US Army #4013 Hanford, WA
US Army #4013 Dallas, TX
Minnesota Transfer Ry #485 10-48
Cayahouga Valley Ry #38 Cleveland, OH 1951
Scrapped 1958

70427
0-6-0 09-15-42 21x28 50” 80 tons
US Army #4001 Hanford, WA
US Army #4001 Dallas, TX
Minnesota Transfer Ry #484 08-47
Scrapped 1954


Baldwin
21666
02-03 4-6-0 19x26 68”
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk RR #24
Pennsylvania RR #6524
Hanford Engineering Works
Camp Adair, OR (stored)
For sale 12-07-45
Oregon Steel Mills Portland, OR 02-47
Scrapped

23204
11-03 0-6-0 19x28 57”
Wabash RR #514 (retired or sold 12-41)
Hanford Engineering Works (US Army PO #20774)
US Navy Station #6 San Diego, CA 1945
Stored on ATSF with #39 220 San Diego, CA 1945
Scrapped late 1945

23208
11-03 2-8-0 21x28 56½”
Atlantic Coast Line #710
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA
US Army Hanford, WA 10-16-43 (PO #20644)
Hanford Engineering Works
Willamette Iron & Steel Works Portland, OR 12-44

23209
11-03 2-8-0 21x28 56½”
Atlantic Coast Line #711
Southern Iron & Equipment (D) Atlanta, GA
US Army Hanford, WA 10-16-43

38836
11-12 2-8-2 18x24 44” 70 tons
Mud Bay Log. Co. (Thurston County Central Ry) #4 Olympia, WA
Guy F. Atkinson #4 Beverly, WA (contractor at Hanford)
(photographed derelict at Beverly, WA with three side dump cars)
Washington Machinery & Storage Co. (D) Seattle, WA 01-31-49

? ?
0-6-0 19x26 56”
US Army PO #20641
US Marine Corp Air Station El Toro, CA
Henry J. Kaiser Co.
Scrapped
(most likely a Pennsylvania RR Class B8)


General Electric
15628
65T D/E 05-29-42 B-B Std 400hp Center cab
E I DuPont de Nemours –operator for-
US Army #7021 Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
US Army #7021 Savanna Ordnance Depot Savanna, IL
US Army #7021 Fort Lewis, WA
General Service Administration 10-62
Morse & Ory Gravel –for- 10-62
South Central RR Amite, LA
Gifford Hill Arcola, LA (here 10-13-81)
Bayou Railcar #01 Holden, LA

15659
65T D/E 09-24-42 B-B Std 400hp Center cab
US Army #7933 –for-
General Electrics Nucleonics Project “Major Hill” #2001 Richland, WA
US Dept of Energy #7933, Pantex Plant Amarillo, TX
North Carolina State Ports Authority #L-4 Wilmington, NC 1963
Birmingham Rail & Loco (D) Birmingham, AL 05-83
D. J. Joseph Cartersville, GA 11-83
D. J. Joseph Baldwin, FL 01-91?

15672
80T D/E 08-29-42 B-B Std 38” 500hp Center cab
US Army #7377, Plum Brook Ordnance Works #339 Plum Brook, OH
General Electric Nucleonics Project #339 Richland, WA
US Army #7377 Camp Atterbury, IN
US Army #7377 Ogden Arsenal (Hill AFB) Ogden, UT (after 1952)
Sunfeldt Equipment (D) Seattle, WA
Stockton Terminal & Eastern #22 04-57
Levin Metals (D) #22 Richmond, CA 06-74
(Used in the Levin yard for a while then scrapped.)

15742
80T D/E 10-21-42 B-B Std 38” 500hp Center cab
General Electric #2, Nucleonics Project Richland, WA US Atomic Energy Commission #39-3725 Hanford, WA
US Army #7268, Ogden Depot Ogden, UT
US Navy #65-00500, Naval Ammunition Depot Hawthorne, NV 03-66

15885
65T D/E 02-24-43 B-B Std 34” 400hp Center cab
US Army #7934 –for- General Electric Nucleonics Project #2002 Richland, WA
US Army #7934, Tinker Army Air Base Oklahoma City, OK
US Air Force #7934, Myrtle Beach AFB Myrtle Beach, SC

17739
65T D/E 04-02-43 B-B Std 34” 400hp Center cab
US Army #7480 –for-
General Electric Nucleonics Project #V-1414 Richland, WA
Shippers Car Line East St Louis, IL

27568
80T D/E 07-28-44 B-B Std 38” 500hp Center cab
E I DuPont de Nemours –operator for-
US Army #7385, Hanford Ordnance Works Hanford, WA
US Atomic Energy Commission #39-xxx Hanford, WA
US Navy, Naval Supply Depot #7 (USN #65-00511) Seattle, WA 04-07-67


Plymouth
3386
01-30 4w gas 36” 100 10 tons JLA2
Hanford Engineering Works #1 Hanford, WA
Dupont Co. Hanford, WA (converted to diesel 1952)
Dupont Co. Dupont, WA
Floyd Equipment Co. (D) Tacoma, WA 1977

3492
06-30 4w gas 36” 63 8 tons DLC6
Hanford Engineering Works #2 Hanford, WA
Dupont de Nemours & Co. #2 Dupont, WA (converted to diesel 1952)
Floyd Equipment Co. (D) Tacoma, WA 1977

3585
01-31 4w gas 36” 63 8 tons DLC6
Hanford Engineering Works #3 Hanford, WA
Dupont de Nemours & Co. Dupont, WA (converted to diesel 1952)
Floyd Equipment Co. (D) Tacoma, WA 1977

4562
09-43 4w gas STD 175 30 tons ML6
Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
Dupont Hanford, WA
St. Regis Paper Co. #463 Tacoma, WA 06-59
Puget Sound Ry. Historical Assn. Snoqualmie, WA 12-01-77

4563
10-43 4w gas STD 175 30 tons ML6
Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
Dupont Hanford, WA
Atomic Energy Commission #7 Hanford, WA
(sold via Tauber-Arons Auctioneers)
Mount Vernon Terminal RR #3 Mount Vernon, WA 1954
John Haakenson Wickersham, WA 1985
Lake Whatcom Ry (loaned) Wickersham, WA (here 1986)
Doug Sorenson & Tom Dellinger Concrete, WA (stored here 2007)
Lake Whatcom Ry (loaned) Wickersham, WA

4564
12-43 4w gas STD 175 30 tons ML6
Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
Continental Grain Co. Portland, OR

4776
05-44 4w gas STD 175 30 tons ML6
Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
Continental Grain Co. #102 Longview, WA
Continental Grain Co. #102 Stockton, CA (here by 11-80)

4777
06-44 4w gas STD 175 30 tons ML6
Hanford Engineering Works Hanford, WA
McNary Dam, OR (for sale 10-62)
Zidell Explorations, Ltd #71422 Portland, OR
Zidell Explorations, Ltd #71422 Tacoma, WA 05-72


Unknown
? 0-6-0
unknown first owner
Hanford Engineering Works (USAPO #20775)
US Army Ono Army Base San Bernardino, CA
Dulien Steel Los Angeles, CA 1947
Scrapped


Five steam locomotives being used as stationary boilers at Riverland.


Declassified Hanford Photographs




02-46 4 GE 80-tonners and 2 GE 65-tonners in use

9-46 4 diesel locomotives were received from Army surplus Ogden Arsenal.
39 3725    80T GE
39 3726    80T GE   placed in service 10-11-46
39 3727    65T GE   placed in service 10-11-46
39 3728    65T GE

1-48 steam locomotive being used by construction department

6-48 locomotive 39 3729 arrived June 28

3-48 21 passenger cars purchased to transport employees

1-50 1 30-ton Plymouth declared surplus

3-97 4 locomotive still in use


These locomotives may have been used at Hanford.

Baldwin C/N 19568 10-01 2-8-0
Alabama Midland #530
Atlantic Coast Line #700
The ACL records show it as sold to the US Army 10-43 with the other four. Southern Iron & Equipment shop #2492 shows all five sold to Hanford 10-16-43. The #700 was not seen at Hanford but became US Navy #65-00253 in 1949-50.

Alco/Rogers C/N 53881 06-15 0-4-2T 13x18 34½“
Remington Arms Co. #6 Bridgeport, CT
US Army #6992
Naval Air Station Pasco, WA (here 1946)
For sale 11-46 & 07-50
Murphy Brothers Construction Co. #6992>99 by 03-52


These locomotive cranes may have been used at Hanford.


Ohio Locomotive Crane Co.
3410
20 tons Steam 50’ boom 11-03-19
Buffalo Slag Co. Harriet, NY
Returned to Bucyrus and rebuilt 1929
STM Contracting Co. Riverdale, IL
Hyman-Michaels Co. Chicago, IL 1933
US Army Engineer Office Waren, UT 1942
War Assets Corp. Pasco, WA 1946
Wycoff Co. #6 Creosote, WA
Poles Inc. Newport, WA

4279
35 tons Gasoline 50’ boom 05-25-43
Pasco Holding & Reconsignment Point Pasco, WA
US Army Ft. Lewis, WA


Copyright John A. Taubeneck
Seattle, WA
April 10, 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Milwaukee Road Vs House

Courtesy of Allen Miller.

The Milwaukee had a similar situation on February 22, 1977. A Milwaukee Road freight train plowed through a 20'x 52' wood frame house at the Thacker Road crossing near Othello. The mover had stopped the house on the railroad tracks at the crossing to check clearance on some overhead wires. They had a man on the tracks watching for trains but when it showed around the curve it was too late to get the house off of the crossing in time.

Vic Mikulich, of Enumclaw, was the engineer and Butte Fennell was the head brakeman. Vic was uninjured but Butte and another brakeman received some minor injuries. The tractor broke away from the load and none of the moving crew were injured. The house was a total loss and $20,000 damage to the locomotive. I believe the lead engine was SD40-2 No. 16 and the cab was literally filled with lumber from the collision. The ironic thing was that the house's destination was just across Highway 26 from the crossing where it was hit. Probably less than 200 feet away.





Friday, February 10, 2012

Voltage AFEs


This is a summary to the "Applications For Expenditures" (AFE) files which were project files for all purchases, construction or removal of facilities or equipment from Great Northern property. These files sometimes contain correspondence, invoices, blueprints and other project information, and often contain insight into events or changes in a specific area at a point in time.

As a summary, it does give a look into the changes made over the years.

From the GN-NP Archives.

1945 Extend underpass
1945 Install spring switch
1947 Install slide fence
1947 Install spring switch at east end of passing track
1949 Remove Wenatchee Mill track
1952 Install temporary crossing
1955 Sale of property
1957 Make repairs to roadbed along reservoir
1957 Purchase additional land for ROW on account daylighting Tunnel 12
1959 Clean out channel at bridge 1638.2
1960 Line change MP 1637.58 to 1638.64
1962 Rearrange track
1965 Install Griswold signals on PUD crossing

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Waterville AFEs


This is a summary to the "Applications For Expenditures" (AFE) files which were project files for all purchases, construction or removal of facilities or equipment from Great Northern property. These files sometimes contain correspondence, invoices, blueprints and other project information, and often contain insight into events or changes in a specific area at a point in time.

As a summary, it does give a look into the changes made over the years.

From the GN-NP Archives.

1909 Construct additional 10 miles of telegraph line on Waterville extension.
1910 Change four public road crossings on the Waterville Line as ordered by the State RR Commission.
1910 Place riprap, pipe culverts and build bridges.
1912 Transfer track to Waterville Railway
1912 Install 15' mail compartment in baggage car #1012
1919 Construct Waterville Railway turnout
1956 Acquire Waterville Railway tracks

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Seward AFEs


This is a summary to the "Applications For Expenditures" (AFE) files which were project files for all purchases, construction or removal of facilities or equipment from Great Northern property. These files sometimes contain correspondence, invoices, blueprints and other project information, and often contain insight into events or changes in a specific area at a point in time.

As a summary, it does give a look into the changes made over the years.

From the GN-NP Archives.

1913 Place steel in bridges 325 and 326
1914 Construct extensions on east and west ends of passing track
1914 Paint 7 new steel bridges between Moravia and Seward
1916 Place steel in bridge 323 and 324
1922 Patch ballast
1922 Relay rail Lamona to Seward
1932 Repair flood damage, install culverts and change channel
1933 Place rip-rap Odessa to Seward
1937 Place steel in bridge 326.4 and 327
1937 Renew ties in bridge 325
1939 Remove industry track
1942 Construct private road under bridge 325
1942 Remove passing track
1942 Remove telephone booth and equipment

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Trinidad AFEs


This is a summary to the "Applications For Expenditures" (AFE) files which were project files for all purchases, construction or removal of facilities or equipment from Great Northern property. These files sometimes contain correspondence, invoices, blueprints and other project information, and often contain insight into events or changes in a specific area at a point in time.

As a summary, it does give a look into the changes made over the years.

From the GN-NP Archives.

1899 Construct 12x34 one story frame depot with platform
1900 Construct 12x20 tool house
1900 Construct coal facilities
1900 Construct 1 1/2 story, 30x30 section house
1900 Line change
1900 Place Jap house
1900 Install telegraph line
1901 Construct gravel spur track
1901 Construct 24x16 bunk house
1902 Install mail crane
1903 Install ROW fence
1903 Place fines around water tank
1904 Build stockyard and industry track
1906 Extend gravel pit track
1907 Install derail
1910 Move switch and sand spur at Trinidad pit
1911 Install private crossing one mile west for J.C. Wheeler
1912 Relay with 90# rail
1913 Install overhead highway crossing crossing 1 1/2 miles east
1914 Replace signals
1914 Extend passing track
1916 Install dam for water supply
1917 Extend industry track
1919 Move depot
1920 Relaying present 90# rail (new whel laid in 1912) with new high carbon rail on 10 degree curve just west of MP 1623, 3 miles east of Trinidad.
1920 Guard rail at west switch
1921 Install W.M. Clapp spur
1921 Move car body bunk house to Quincy
1922 Acquire property
1922 Construct new bridge at MP 1626.8
1922 Place car bodies
1922 Water closet to Leavenworth
1923 Gravel pit accounting adjustment
1923 Replace a culvert
1923 Raise water tank
1924 Between Crater and Trinidad-relay present 90# rail with new 130# rail in curve 437 east of Trinidad, length of track to be relayed is 2900'
1924 Acquire property to enlarge stockyard
1925 Renew water tank
1925 Riprap culvert 158.8
1925 Remove public crossing
1926 Rearrange signals in yard
1927 Install 9x28 caboose body as bunk house
1929 Move switch and extend sand spur
1930 Remove W.M. Clapp spur
1930 Construct stockyard
1931 Install portable depot
1932 Station equipment moved from Colebrook, BC to Trinidad
1932 Install culvert at MP 1625.75
1933 Construct concrete cistern and remove water barrels
1934 Electric lights in section house
1937 Retire train order signal
1940 Remove pens at stockyard
1941 Place pump in scale pit
1941 Renew bridge 351.2
1941 Easement for highway
1942 Extend sand pit track
1943 Improvement to powder houses
1943 Conveyor support for sand loading
1944 Strip sand pit
1944 Install ROW fence MP 1623 to 1626
1944 Relay through turnouts of passing tracks with 112# rail
1945 Install spring switches
1946 Install annunciator
1946 Install conveyor for sand pit
1947 Retire abandoned ROW on old line
1952 Install tie plates Trinidad to Rock Island
1952 Install highway bridge
1952 Relay with 115# rail
1954 Retire section buildings
1956 Remove gravel pit track
1956 Raise culvert parapet at MP 1623.20
1962 Rearrange track
1963 Relay 3 curves with 115# rail
1969 Replace rail anchors on CTC siding

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Project: Starter


Story and images courtesy of Bruce Butler

Most of us who may have fooled around with cars in our youth have probably replaced a starter or two in one of the cars we have owned. For contrast, consider the change-out of a starter on a 3600 hp diesel engine; 20 cylinders with a total displacement of 12,900 cubic inches. Actually it isn’t that much different than an automobile except that the starters are considerably larger and there are two of them. 32 volt machines hooked up in series so they receive 64 volts and a lot of amps from the locomotive’s onboard batteries.

First, contemplate the failure. At one point it was quite spectacular! Locomotive 375 was one of two at Coulee City WA on Friday 5/6/2011 scheduled to pull 17 loaded grain cars and 1 empty flat car eastbound to Davenport WA that day. Both units had been shut down after arriving in Coulee City the previous day with the empty cars.

While the 2891 started right up, 375 wouldn’t even crank. Low batteries were the suspect culprit. After some trial and error, we started the Kim hot-start unit with the hope that it would charge the batteries enough to start the 375 later. 2891 was able to pull the train, and push the dead 375, up the grade out of Coulee City and over the hill at Hanson by itself. Our attempt to start the 375 at Almira was an even bigger failure. On to Davenport. We topped rattlesnake grade at 15 mph and even managed 11 mph on Wilbur hill. The train was tied down for the night at Cemetery Rd, just west of Davenport.

Saturday in Davenport, we hooked jumper cables from 8924 to 375 and after letting it charge for awhile, attempted a start. We got a few clicks but no cranking. At that point we removed the cover over the twin starters and tried again. Flames shot at least a foot out of the end of the top starter and fire burned for what seemed like a long time before it finally flickered out! Very impressive! At least now we knew where the problem was.

Sunday afternoon after some serious contemplation of the project, I decided that we could probably change the starter ourselves. I called Steve Gibson and he was game to give it a try. Steve called Todd Havens, President of Western Rail in Airway Heights and received permission to pull a used starter off of one of their parts locomotives. Steve and I met at Western Rail about 2 pm and pulled the bottom starter off of our former unit 8925. This gave us a taste of what we were up against. Fortunately I had the needed wrenches and sockets in my toolbox.

On to Davenport where the 375 was waiting. First task was to take a few pictures and some notes on how the starters were wired up.



This picture shows the defective top starter. The top of the lower starter is seen at the bottom of the picture The jumper wire which connects the two starters in series is shown at the lower right. It has already been disconnected from the upper starter. The flames had seemed to come out from around this bolt. These starters are about 2-1/2 feet long and weigh about 100 pounds EACH!

I didn’t take any pictures while we were doing the actual swap of the starters as it was messy and we were rapidly getting filthy. 3 big bolts held each starter in place and it was close quarters work getting the nuts off of these bolts.



Finally the job is done and the 375 IS RUNNING! Spun and started just like it always did. Both starters are behind the black fiberglass cover at the lower left center. The old starter is lying on the running board behind the handrail post.



Another view of the now running 375. It will soon be heading west toward Coulee City with the 8924 and another empty grain train.



Todd asked us to return the old starter to Western Rail as a core. I dropped it off on my way home. This picture of it in the back of my car gives a idea as to it’s size.