Photo by Gary Durr.
Friday March 4th, 2016, the CBRW Moses lake job rolls into Wheeler, Washington with and SD-9, GP-9, and an SD-19 for power as it rolls past the old NP water tower.... this was my first time at wheeler, and was impressed with the amount of industry that was there...The train switched around at Wheeler for about 45-60 minutes before heading out to Grow Jct on the line to Moses lake.
Photo by Gary Durr.
May 2017
An EWG Westbound scoot train led by three big EMD units, is just starting its climb out of Deep creek at MP 15 on a beautiful warm spring afternoon. After one of the most grueling winters that I have ever experienced, it is wonderful to see the beautiful blue skies, green trees and fields... and BARE ground..Spring has sprung here in Eastern Washington....the many flooded fields and drainage ditches are finally drying up and the weather has been getting increasingly warmer... Life is Good...
Courtesy of Dave Morgan. Photos by Eric Morgan.
SRGX 208, Speno Rail Grinder. A rail grinder working a couple of miles east of Smyrna, headed east. Exact date is not known, but I think around 1965. Photo by Eric Morgan.
Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.
Blair says:
"DRAG FREIGHT: Another from the oldies files, train #129, the daily Yardley-Interbay drag, pulls down the WO Main leaving Wenatchee in July 1983, four F45's up front for power. The F45's worked the helpers out of Wenatchee and Whitefish before their retirement the next year; on weekends, they often worked #129/130 between Interbay and Wenatchee."
From the "Spokane Press."
June 25, 1909
May 19, 1909
May 4, 1909
May 12, 1909
Phil Ellsworth posted a large number of photos in a Facebook group dedicated to Spokane history. While ALL of the photos are interesting, just a few are pertinent to this page.
Phil said:
"My great uncle, Allen Mayer Davidson of South Bend, Ind., worked for an insurance company and traveled the country taking photos of properties and projects they insured. Some are aerial photos taken by him from a biplane and others were taken from ground level.
"These were in envelopes marked “Spokane” and he was usually fastidious about accuracy but I can’t confirm that all of them are actually of the Spokane area. Probably are though.
"Sorry it’s such a large photo dump, but I thought they’d be of interest to the group."
That said, here are two:
Then there were two photos showing the approach to the GN bridge over the river.
