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!
USBR photo. Courtesy of the Grant County Historical Society Museum.
June 28, 1950.
Best guess for a location is south of Adrian/Adco on the line to Wheeler, somewhere north of Gloyd.
"Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division 2nd Section East Low Canal. View showing cement siding and unloading operation. Cement is trucked approximately two miles to Batch Plant."
Images courtesy of Dennis Lee.
Not sure of the exact date, but the line showing the cutoff between Bassett Jct and Ellensburg dates to around 1914.
