Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.
This site features daily historical railroad posts from the Big Bend/Columbia Plateau region of Washington state. As a personal site, this is my online filing cabinet of interesting things I've come across about railroading in the area. Thanks for stopping by! Shoutout to Kirtus Dolorina for stopping by to borrow other people's work!
Thursday, August 15, 2024
BN 1975 Station Revenues C-H
Friday, June 21, 2024
Sunday, June 16, 2024
1983 Spokane Division Train Briefs
Courtesy of Lynn Francis.
April 1, 1983
WENATCHEE AREA
51882 Quincy Spud Loc. 0900 DXSa-Su Wenatchee-Quincy A.
51882 Quincy Spud As Reqd. Columbia River-Bon Spur & Ret. B.
51881 Quincy Spud DXSa-SU Quincy-Wenatchee C.
51881 Quincy Spud As Reqd. Columbia River -Bon Spur & Ret. D.
51898 Quincy Spud As Reqd. Quincy-Ephrata & Ret. E.
51886 Alcoa Loc. 2100 Wenatchee-Rock Island & Ret. A.
51886 Alcoa Loc. As Reqd. Rock Island-Bon Spur & Ret. B.
51888 Alcoa Loc 2nd Trip As Reqd. Wenatchee-Rock Island & Ret. C.
51888 Alcoa Loc 2nd Trip As Reqd. Rock Island-Bon Spur & Ret. D.
51690 WO Local 1700 Tu-Th-Sa Wenatchee-Oroville
51691 WO Local 1500 Mo-We-Fr Oroville-Wenatchee
51894 Mansfield Turn As Reqd. Wenatchee-Mansfield & Ret.
SPOKANE WEST & SOUTH
51671 CW Loc 1030 Mo-We-Fr Yardley-Coulee City A.
51672 CW Loc 0630 Tu-Th-Sa Coulee City-Yardley B.
51672 CW Loc As Reqd. Davenport to Eleanor Industry C.
51672 CW Loc Tu-Th-Sa Cheney-Babb & Ret. D.
51803 Babb Turn 0700 DXSu Erie St-(Spokane)-Babb & Ret. A
51803 Babb Turn Tu-Th Latah Junction-Geiger Field & Ret. B
51619 Yardley-Pullman Loc 1300 Mo-Th Yardley-Pullman A.
As Reqd. Mt. Hope B.
51620 Pullman-Yardley Loc 0700 We-Sa. Pullman-Yardley A.
As Reqd. Palouse-Grinnell-Viola- B.
As Reqd. Rosalia-Balder C.
51873 Pullman-Julietta Loc Tu-Fr Pullman-Genessee-Julietta
51847 WIM Local 0800 DXSa-Su Potlatch-Palouse-Boville & Ret.
SPOKANE EAST & NORTH (Pt-1)
51842 Coeur D'Alene 0930 DXSa-Su Post Falls-Coeur D'Alene & Ret.
51801 Athol Turn 0400 As Reqd. Yardley-Hauser-Athol & Ret.
51816 Bonner Ferry Loc 0630 DXSa-Su Sandpoint-Crossport & Ret.
51821 Newport Loc 0730 DXSa-Su Newport-Sandpoint & Ret.
51846 Green Acres Loc As Reqd. Ydly-Erie St-Post Falls 7th Sub.
51819 Sandpoint Turn 1900 DXSa Sandpoint-Yardley & Ret.
51820 Sandpoint Turn 2300 DXSa Yardley-Sandpoint
Friday, June 14, 2024
1976 Spokane Area Train Briefs
Courtesy of Rob Leachman via Groups.io.
As promised, here is a run-down of local freight train assignments
in the Spokane area circa 1976. This completes my posts concerning
BN operations in the Spokane area. Hope this is of interest.
Spokane Area Local Freight Trains (as published Feb 1976, "last
revised 10/14/75")
Local Number Route Description On Duty Frequency
474 Cheney-Scribner-Marshall-Babb 0900 Ex TuF
625 Kettle Falls – Hillyard 0700 TuF
626 Hillyard – Kettle Falls 0830 MTh
671 Yardley – Coulee City 0930 MWF
672 Coulee City – Yardley 0700 TuThSa
679 Yardley – Quincy 0800 MWF
680 Quincy – Yardley 0600 TuThSa
801 Yardley – Athol Daily
819-820 Sandpoint – Hillyard 1900 Ex Sa
831 Kettle Falls – Hillyard 0030 Ex Su
832 Hillyard – Kettle Falls 2130 Ex Sa
834 Hillyard – Elk 0630 Ex SaSu
836 Hillyard – Chewelah 0700 We
842 Erie Street – Coeur d'Alene 0900 Ex SaSu
844 Yardley–Coeur d'Alene–Algoma 0700 Ex Su
846 Cheney-Marshall-Scribner-
Davenport-Eleanor 1100 Tu
Notes: Trains 831-832 were essentially through road trains not doing
local work. These were long trains powered by multi-unit lash-ups of
four-axle units. Trains 671-672 also were powered by multi-unit lash-
ups of four-axle units (typically F units or mixed F units and
Geeps), although they did all the switching work at the elevators
along the CW. When the grain was moving, these also were long
trains. I believe the other locals were ordinarily powered by one or
two Geeps.