1977 Milwaukee Road Rationalization Of Plant Light Density Lines

 

1979 Beverly Depot View

Photo courtesy of Bill Edgar.

November 1979

Bill says:

"This view shows the west end of Milwaukee Road's station at Beverly, WA. The main track and siding are still lined with unused catenary poles, although the wire has been removed and sold as scrap. Electrics ceased operating in 1972. Diesels will continue to ply these rails until mid-March 1980."

1979 Beverly Depot

Photo courtesy of Bill Edgar.

November 1979

Bill says:

"This view shows the east end of Milwaukee Road's station at Beverly, WA. Beverly is located on the east side of the Columbia River across from the Boylston Hill grade, Milwaukee's steepest mainline grade in Washington state. Trains would roll past this location only 4 more months before abandonment of the Pacific Coast extension."

1987 Beverly View

Photograph by Wade Stevenson; courtesy of the Othello Community Museum.

Extra 2060 East At Beverly

Photo by James Estes.

October 4, 1969

Promotional Beverly View

Courtesy of Bruce Newell. 

Late 1970s Beverly View

Photo courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Late 1970s.

1908 Beverly Bridge Views

By various photographers.

Othello And Beverly Photos

Photos courtesy of Dave Houston.

Beverly Area View

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says:

"Dickie Dewald asked for more Milwaukee Road photos from me on here, so here's a start: Train #201-C cruises westbound along Crab Creek in the otherwise barren desert near Beverly, Washington in May, 1979. It wouldn't be long until that modern SD40-2's would be pulled back east and replaced with old junky GE's and GP40's; in 10 months, this railroad would be abandoned, failing just a bit too soon for the Staggers Act and double-stacked bridge traffic to do any good to save it."

 

Beverly View, A Century Ago

Courtesy of the Grant County Historical Society.

No date listed.

Milw 162 At Beverly

Bill Kalkman, Doug Cummings photo, Rodney Peterson collection. Milwaukee Road SD40-2-162 (built as 3032 in July, 1972) & 158 (built as 3028 in 7/72) along with two others unidentified, are leading a freight in Beverly, WA on 5-21-67.

 

Winds Wreck Freight Train

Thanks to William Russ for finding this.

From the "Tri City Herald."

January 12, 1972

Mattawa-Wahluke Rail Lines Set In '67

Thanks to William Russ for digging this out.

From the "Tri City Herald."

January 1, 1967

Four State Area Battered By Winds

Thanks to William Russ for digging this up. 

This was the incident that caused the Milwaukee to put up the high wind indicators.

Allen Miller adds:
"I was working day shift at Tacoma Jct. the morning that this happened, in fact the wrecker was heading east past the shanty as I was getting out of my car after arriving. Train 203H-19 had crossed the Beverly bridge about an hour before the ill-fated 200S-21 and had lost a couple of trailers and didn't even know it. When it came by the shanty about 11 am I noticed the cowling was missing on one of its slave units. When they started switching the train in Tide Flats yard they found the empty flat car and I heard them verifying the van numbers over the block phone, which had been cut in to the wreck site."

1910s New Towns And Business Opportunities

 

2007 Hanford Branch Images

Courtesy of the Department of Ecology.