Milwaukee Line Will Build North And South Of Othello

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

September 27, 1909

BN Intermodal Approaching Trinidad

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says:

"Bathed in the lurid hue of sunrise on the desert, eastbound hotshot train #4 climbs the 0.8% gradient away from the Columbia River on Burlington Northern's former Great Northern mainline between Wenatchee and Spokane, Washington, at dawn on September 17, 1991.

I was living in Spokane at the time, and a couple of hour drive to Wenatchee before sunrise would usually result in a fleet of eastbound intermodal trains to photograph in morning light climbing the winding gradient in and out of the coulees leading to the Columbia basin."

 

Railroad Revamping Station At Othello

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

November 1, 1957

FDR Comes To Ephrata

From the "Spokesman Review."

August 5, 1934

Spokane Mail Is Delayed

From the "Spokesman Review."

January 1, 1933

War Vet Falls Off Fast Train

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

January 23, 1932

 

1957 Derailment Scene Near Odessa

From the "Grant County Journal."

July 29, 1957

Flooding At Stratford

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

March 1, 1957

While this is not the best photo out there, note the Stratford grain elevator in the background on the right side.

Twelve Firms Bid Here On Dam Railway

From the "Spokane Press."

May 17, 1934

Hotbox At Adrian

From the "Grant County Journal."

July 8, 1957

 

BN 6680 At Ephrata

Photo courtesy of Brian Ambrose.

Brian says:

"Westbound BN train 195 passing through Ephrata, WA on 5-4-85 with units 6680/4002/6328/8097 (SD45/B30-7A/SD40-2/SD40-2)."

 

USBR Head Men Go Into Huddle

From the  "Spokesman Review."

August 30, 1935

NP To Stake Out Line To Grand Coulee

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

April 14, 1934

Coulee Area Has Two Fires

From the Juliaetta "Bulletin."

August 20, 1936

Wheat-The Life Blood Of The Marlin District

From the "Grant County Journal."

September 6, 1946

2019 WER Derailment At Creston

August 28 and 29, 2024

Jury To Travel To Coulee City

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

September 15, 1947

Dan, why are you including this information on your railroad site? This orchard used to ship fruit by rail for many years. I have more clippings to include here as part of a research project I'm working on.

1957 Winchester/Quincy View

February 13, 1957

1939 Car Skip View

 

1936 Grand Coulee Area Map

 

1933 Coulee City Map

This one is interesting to me for a few reasons. It shows ownership of the Columbia Basin Orchards along the state highway to Grand Coulee. It shows land owned by John Ankney, on whose land a test well was dug to determine if the floor of the upper Grand Coulee would be able to hold water. One of those wells cased tainted groundwater to flow into one of the small natural lakes that the orchards were using to irrigate from, causing the trees to die. A subsequent lawsuit by the orchard owner against the Federal Government, who sponsored the well drilling, was lost by the orchard owner in 1950.

1933 Electric City Area

 

The Future Of This Site?

I'm not quite sure what to do about the notice I got via email today. Partial screen capture shown below.

 

Pronto Foods Inc, Organized Recently, Will French Fry Potatoes

From "The Northwest."

A bimonthly magazine published by the Northern Pacific. 

January-February 1965

1933 Bacon Area Land Ownership

I want to point out that either the roads since then have changed a bit (very likely), or the person doing the map made a mistake (also likely). The road now doesn't go south out of Bacon, nor can I see where the old road alignment went south from there, and you can see a lot of where the old road went back in the day.

1933 Adrian Area Land Ownership

Note the Adrian gravel pit along the center right side.

Renaming Of McCue?

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Closing The Chehalis St Crossing In Wenatchee

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging this up.