First Cattle, Then Railroads Gave Wilson Creek A Boost

East Power House Job To Start Soon

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

December 25, 1941

Picture of the car skip:



Train Mangles Truck And Trailers

From the "Wenatchee World."

1998 PCC

Streamlined Visitor

Original Plat Of Wilson Creek

Date unknown, 

Courtesy of Douglas County and Darrin Nelson.

Quincy Derailment

May 25, 1989

Read more about it here.

Trestle West Of Taunton

Photo of what is now a very large fill just west of Taunton.

Here is a my shot of the same location, but from the other side, back in 2009.

New Crossing Signs

1966 Grant County PUD Promotional Pictures

For the Larson Air Force Base dedication ceremony on October 8, 1966.

Photos courtesy of Steve Rimple.

Railroad Brings Fire to Ephrata

From the "Grant County Journal."

July 18, 1955

Milwaukee At St. Maries, ID

1949 Trinidad Sand Spur

Photo courtesy Douglas County.

Note you can see the grade for the old 1892 alignment between the railroad grade and the newly constructed highway.  Great Northern loaded sand and gravel out of here for years. Visitors to this site today will see many fine homes built between the railroad grade and the river. There is also a highway department sand loadout next to the highway between the fill and cut that provides a commanding view of the area below.

Ephrata Crossing Lights

March 2011

Dry Coulee Siphon

Interesting to note that the cut in the basalt above the siphon is the railroad grade and nearby is the Winston-Utah Spur, where cars of cement were set out for this big pour. The "town" of Adco is about 1/2 mile to the right of the photo.

Ephrata Was Site Of Horse Roundup

Truck Apples From Here To Seattle

From the "News & Standard."

December 13, 1946

Edwall News

December 9, 1993

Spirit Of Washington Dinner Train

The Columbia Basin Railroad operated the Spirit of Washington Dinner train out of Renton. After its operation was discontinued, the cars were stored in the Moses Lake area while the locomotives were stored at the CBRW shop in Yakima.

The cars actually sat outside the old U&I sugar plant at Wheeler, though the actual railroad location on the former Milwaukee Road track was Scalley.

A pre-arranged visit on November 6, 2012 found the cars being prepped for their new owners in California. The multi-year storage at Scalley let some of the cars become infested with mice. All the cars were to have their wheels replaced and the brakes inspected and upgraded.

Power car.

 

UP 8000 - ["City of Los Angeles"-4/55], Auto Train 800 (6/72), Roy Thorpe/Falcon Safety Products Mountainside NJ (2/81), Washington Central WCRC 800, then WCRC 106 (1990) "Mt. Rainier" for the "Spirit of Washington Dinner Train" - fluting added under the windowband. Relettered CBRW (Columbia Basin Railway) 11/02.

Cascade.

Chateau Ste Michelle

Old U&I sugar plant silos.

Remaining cars on the other side of the sugar plant.

City of Seattle.

City of Renton.

Columbia Winery

 

Olympic.

City of Renton dome.

City of Renton galley.

City of Renton galley.

City of Seattle lounge.

City of Seattle dome.