1979 BN Station Revenues-Portland Division

 

Chasing The CBRW-8-8-25

My photos.

Switching the new Simplot plant at Wheeler.

Passing the NP era water tank at Wheeler. 

Pulling hard at Frischknecht.

Coming down the hill into Connell.

Waiting at Connell while a grain train passes.

Swapping trains with the Lind Turn.

One of the fellows on the chase with me at Connell.

Crossing Buehler Rd. 

Once again at Frischknecht.

Passing Shano.

Crossing a bridge just north of Bruce.

Crossing Lee Rd at Bruce.

Coming through the S curve track that BN built to connect the former NP with the Milwaukee north of Warden. I'm standing on the ramp to the flyover the NP had over the Milwaukee. 

Gaining former Milwaukee trackage north of Warden.

Last Days Of The CBRW

My photo.

August 6, 2025

Here is the Connell Turn returning from Connell at Bridge 171 near Bruce. 

I had chased them from Connell. The sound of 567s in Run 8 coming up the hill to Shano was amazing.

One More Columbia Basin Industry Put In At Bruce, WA

From "The Northwest."

July-August 1959

Bruce Has Few Residents, But A Large Industrial Area

From "The Northwest."

March-April 1963

2012 Bruce Views

Photos courtesy JP3.

June 6, 2012

CBRW And Mt. Rainier

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

September 2020

Blair says:

"Less than two weeks after wild fires, wind, dust and smoke cut visibility to near zero across much of eastern Washington, Columbia Basin Railway's Connell turn crosses a country road between Warden and Bruce, with 14,410' tall Mount Rainier visible in the clear morning air 129 miles to the west. . . . amazing. By the end of the day, with plowing in the fields and trucks on the gravel roads stirring up dust, there's no way you'll see even a fraction of that distance."

 

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