Sunday, March 30, 2014

Milwaukee Road Bridge Pillar Demolition

March 15, 2014

Courtesy of Kurt Moose, who was standing right next to me. My pictures to come soon.


Monday, March 24, 2014

2006 Wheeler Section House

Prefab building built by the Northern Pacific in the 1960s to replace the original one. This is right next to the prefab depot. Note the "WCRC" on the mailbox. This was for the previous shortline name for this line, the Washington Central.


Sunday, March 23, 2014

Bruce Watertank

I did get a photo of it in 2006, during a speeder tour of the Columbia Basin Railway. Sorry about the dirty windshield.


Bruce and Wheeler had identical water tanks. Unfortunately, the one at Bruce is gone. See the destruction here.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Koren

Last of the buildings at the old Connell Northern siding of Koren. Location is just south of Bruce, WA, right alongside SR 26.



Tuesday, March 18, 2014

1960s Bruce Depot

Prefab building the Northern Pacific used to replace the original depot at Bruce, WA. A similar one sits at Wheeler, WA.




Sunday, March 16, 2014

Thursday, March 13, 2014

The State Of Lincoln?

From the "Wilson Creek World."

January 15, 1915


This cartoon was discovered via a blog entry over at the Washington State Library Blog. See the post here.

I can only imagine what the nice folks over in George, WA would say if something like this were to happen today.