Courtesy of Tom Carver.
September 1980
"The CW (Central Washington) local, aka the Coulee City Turn, is shown here westbound between the elevators at Hite, in the background, and Reardan, WA. This line, from Cheney to Coulee City, was more formally known as BN's 8th Subdivision Branch Line of the Spokane Division. Some will say that six F-units and a Geep is too much power for their liking. Granted, but the sound was incredible! After the Pacific Division F's were retired, these were among BN's last F-units to continue operating, all based out of Parkwater in Spokane. These same F's were also dispatched east to Marias Pass for helper service."
4 comments:
All those EMD 567's chanting away, must've made a beautiful noise!
I remember...
Not much i wouldn't do to just see that one more time!
You can, of a sort, by going to go visit the Columbia Basin Railway in Warden. Hurry though, changes are afoot.
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