New Station For Stratford

From the "Spokesman Review."

May 11, 1912

E-4 and 16 at Othello

Wade Stevenson photo.

July 9, 1952

1892 Coulee City View

Courtesy of the Montana Historical Society (online) Haynes Collection. 
March 1892

"Another terrific Northern Pacific scene, with Baldwin 4-4-0 No. 37 and train at Coulee City, Washington in March 1892. Snow could still be expected in that month, hence the wedge plow pilot still affixed in place. Her engineer was listed by the photographer as F. J. McClung. The photographer's rolling studio car was at the end of the train.


"NP's then-new division engine terminal made a fine background, the coaling dock at left and 6-stall stonework roundhouse at right."

WER At Hite

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

September 2020

Blair says:

"Morning shadows are long across the freshly-cut wheat at Washington Eastern’s “Scoot" grain shuttle pauses to add a third locomotive to get it across the undulating wheatfields of the land west of Spokane at the elevator siding of Hite."

 

Sunrise With The CW Local

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra. 

August 15 1981

Blair says:

"Sunrise with the CW Local. Climbing the hill into Hanson Washington, having left Almira a little before with a fresh relief crew on out of Spokane.

"No place can one feel so alive than standing with your feet in the soil amid wheat fields the wind gently blowing, the sun making its first efforts to warm the day's air. It'll be a hot one by afternoon."

2019 CBRW Connell Turn Views

Photos by Jonathan Fischer.

November 19, 2019

Just south of Warden.

 

Shano

Schlomer

Descending into Connell.

1937 Bipolar View

From the Walt Ainsworth collection.

Douglas-Waterville RR

From the Wenatchee "World."

October 23, 1909

Interest In Railway Plans

From the Wenatchee "World."

July 15, 1909

1942 Tiflis To Moses Lake Abandonment Study

Jay Lentzner Collection. Courtesy of the PNRA and Aaron Schwarz.

First Train To Grand Coulee

From the Wenatchee "World."

July 30, 1935

1910 Moses Lake Irrigation Project

From the Jim Fredrickson collection at PNRA. Thanks to Aaron Schwarz.

Northern Pacific Railroad States Their Position In Project District

From the "Grant County Journal."

November 11, 1938

Train 200 At Othello

Guest post by Blair Kooistra.

Milwaukee Road train #200 is still working power as it closes in on the final two miles to the west yard limit board at Othello, Washington, just minutes from sunrise on August 26, 1978.  Three SD40-2's and a single SD45 led by the #17  are up front at 6:20am, rounding the one-mile long one-degree right hand curve and climbing the dip out of old Anson siding, engineer leaning on the horn for the Thacker Road crossing at milepost 1991. That's some pretty "bouncy" track and of course all still stick rail laid atop pit run "ballast"--consistency of gravel--from the pit at Cohasset, on the Saddle Mountain grade above Beverly.

Chris Haaland and I grabbed another shot of the train entering the yard off the Highway 17 overpass. The crew stopped in front of the depot to change crews before making a six-car pickup of mechanical reefers of frozen potatoes out of the "east yard." Meanwhile a Dead Freight West with a helper cut in out of the yard was ready to depart on 200's arrival, and Chris and I re positioned west of Taunton for a shot of it before heading back into Othello right about the time #200 was ready to pull east. We chased this train to Pizaarro, on the scablands east of Lind.

E50 At Othello

Photo by Wade Stevenson.