Thursday, October 31, 2024

Undated Almira Depot Postcard View

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

No date listed.  

Note the top of the J G Wolf mill on the left above the boxcars.



Wednesday, October 30, 2024

BN Train Near Reardan

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

No photographer known.

August 15, 1981

At the Tramm Rd crossing east of Reardan.



Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Electrifying Great Northern Railroad

Thanks to William Russ for finding this article.

From the Leavenworth "Echo."

October 27, 1916




Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Milwaukee 201 At Lind

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says:

"Another view of the chase Chris Haaland and I made of train #201 across the west end of Milwaukee Road's "gap" in Eastern Washington on August 29, 1978.
We started the day following #200 out of Othello and stayed with it as far as Roxboro, then hung around for #201 to show up. Here's the hottest of the 2 or 3 daily westbound train crossing the big steel bridge and high earth fill over the former Northern Pacific at Lind, Washington. A nice cut of auto racks for the Kent auto yard are on the head end."


GN Power At Appleyard

Courtesy of the GNRHS. Special shout-out to Mike Hammer for reminding me of this image. I first saw it in the 1967 Charles R. Wood book "Lines West." That book was first captivating to me in the late 1970s. 


Three types of Great Northern motive power are shown at Appleyard, near Wenatchee, Wash. Left to right are GE class W-1 electric No. 5019, built in 1947; EMD FT diesel No. 416, built in 1944; and Baldwin class R-1 2-8-8-2 No. 2036.



Saturday, October 19, 2024

CW Snowplow Train

Guest post by Dean Ferris.

(Dan here: I've been sitting on this post for almost 7 years, at Dean's request, waiting for him to retire from the railroad.)



January 1993 saw the first use of the BN Interbay rotary snowplow in quite some time on the CW Line (now the Washington Eastern) and the P&L (now the SSP). Obviously there was no chance I was going to miss it so I called in sick to my job at Boeing. Unfortunately a Spokane TV station sent a crew out to cover the event but they seemed more intent on interviewing us than filming the rotary. So we chased the rotary and the TV crew chased us but I wasn't about to appear on TV after calling in sick (that's my wife and blue van). Steve Koberstein recorded the report on the evening news and sent me a copy. Sorry about the quality - it's from 1993 era VHS tape...

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

1969 Wilson Creek Views

Courtesy of Ronald Pfeifer. 

  

Looking west.

Chuck Chuck Tavern

Depot, looking east

Bulk fuel plant


Monday, October 7, 2024

Sunday, October 6, 2024

1942 Dry Falls View

Photo by Gordon Nicks.

Note the Central Washington Railroad grade on the lower left.



Saturday, October 5, 2024

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Tuesday, October 1, 2024