Thursday, August 28, 2025

2020 Royal City Branch Views

Photos by Blair Kooistra. 

Blair says:


"Wicked horseshoe curve up a 3% gradient and a sharp curve: Mliwaukee Road's Royal City Branch, built 1967, and amazingly still in (somewhat sporadic) use by Port of Royal Slope on a connection east to Othello, Washington.

"This is the big curve around Horse Corral Coulee, just below Royal City."


"A quite rare operation. I felt fortunate to stumble onto it running during a week's holiday in the area. And I wouldn't have gotten this without a phone call from the director of the port district that owns the tracks."



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