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.
1898
Extend passing track
1900
Replace pipe line
1904
Place water tank from Spokane yards
1904
Place mail crane
1905
Install private crossing
1906
Install Wenatchee Milling track
1907
Office
1909
Move steam pump plant from Leavenworth to Rock Island
1909
Furnish and place a standard 12’ X 34’ portable depot, 4’ X 5’ water closet and 100’cinder platform
1910
Remove steam pump
1911
Replace guard rail at west end of bridge No 359
1912
Place steel in bridge No 357
1912
Construct industry spur 550 feet long—2 miles west
1917
Repair bridge over Columbia River
1917
Move crossing
1917
Remove part of industry track
1918
Construct passing track on north side of main
1919
Extend private spur
1920
Extend Wenatchee Fruit Growers spur
1921
Place Slow Boards-10 MPH bridge No 359
1923
Extend Ohio Colony spur
1924
Move bunk house from Bromley
1924
Install highway department spur
1926
Remove water tank
1926
Remove highway department spur
1926
Bank widening on account of relocation
1927
Sale of property
1928
Install drain tile
1928
Line change
1929
Install 1100’ slide fence-2 miles west
1929
Line change
1930
Install house track
1930
Record 3 private crossings
1930
Install depot from Irby
1930
Install steel pedestrian subway
1930
Install private crossing for S&W
1931
Line change at Rock Island Dam
1931
Install private crossings
1931
Adjust the accounts for the payment received from the Washington Electric Company for the right to inundate approximately 79 acres of railway’s right of way by the construction of a dam in the Columbia River at Rock Island
1931
Relay 237 feet of 80 lb and 110 lb rail with 90 lb and 110 lb rail at west switch of passing track
1931
Relocate 12’ X 20’ tool house and place for use as a garage at Wenatchee
1932
Throw and raise mainline
1932
Remove private crossings
1932
Place rip rap along river
1933
Remove furniture and equipment from depot
1933
Repair roadbed after high water
1934
Remove house track at Rock Island Dam
1939
Relay with 112 lb and 131 lb rail Columbia River to Appleyard
1941
Place rip rap at bridge No 357
1941
Extend slide fence
1942
Remove depot-build SS
1942
Install Wenatchee Alloys spurs
1942
Move depot
1943
Extend public crossing
1943
Place colored light train order signal
1944
Remove office equipment
1947
Extend industry track
1948
Install slide fences
1948
Typewriter
1949
Train order and signal equipment
1949
Install Keokuk Metals track
1949
Install 115 lb rail
1949
Install Keokuk Metals track
1951
Install additional Keokuk Metals tracks
1951
Place train indicators
1953
Install 115 lb rail
1953
Replace inner guard rail at bridge No 359
1954
Relay with 115 lb rail between Rock Island and Columbia River
1955
Install crossing signals at Keokuk crossing
1956
Extend Keokuk Metals spur
1956
New steel bridge
1957
Install 115 lb rail
1960
Acquire property
1962
Easement for fish ladder
1964
Relay MP 1662 to MP 1667.6