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."
Wow, great shots of this, glad he took these!
ReplyDeleteI had not seen the line like this.
ReplyDeleteMe neither, whole new perspective!
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