Ride On The Mansfield Branch

Photos courtesy of Olaf Rasmussen, as found at the Narrow Gauge Discussion Forum.

1981

Squilchuck Creek Bridge

Photo courtesy of Johnathan Fischer.

April 8, 1974

1909 Mansfield Branch Station Survey

From the Jim Fredrickson Collection at PNRA. 

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging these out. 

1909 Report On The Mansfield Branch

From the Jim Fredrickson Collection at PNRA. 

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging these out. 

Mansfield Branch View

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says:

"Irrigatin': Pivot sprinklers tic-tic-tic-ticking as Burlington Northern's Withrow Turn heads up the Mansfield Branch a few miles up Palisades Canyon on August 1, 1983. Tic-tic-tic. . .like an ear worm now."

 

GN 894 At Wenatchee

Photographer unknown.

No date.

Note the Appleyard Hotel on the left of the image. 

1960s Era Wenatchee Map

Excursion Run Into Big Bend

From the "Spokesman Review."

April 21, 1910

1966 Appledale Topo Map

BNSF Track Segment 386

Compiled by the late Alan Eisenberg.

Red indicated that the station was abandoned at the time of compilation.

Palisades And Appledale

From "The 1912 Standard Atlas of Douglas County."

Mansfield Branch Abandonment Application and Approval

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz

This is the branch that came off the GN/BN at Columbia River (now Albus) and went up Moses Coulee and wandered across the plateau to Mansfield.

The Great Northern seriously considered extending the line to Grand Coulee Dam to handle construction supplies before the dam was built.