CW Trainorders-1

 

Old Almira Trainorders-4

 

Old Almira Trainorders-3

 

From the Mainline To The Shortline At Hartline

My photo.

June 1, 2016

Former UP 9129 is now relegated to moving loads of wheat. The former mainline speedster is relegated to 10 to 25mph moving hoppers of grain on the shortline Eastern Washington Gateway. There wasn't much of a market for old GE's after the shortline was done with it. It's motor was salvaged for use in another locomotive and the rest of it was scrapped. 

1924 NP AFE Hartline Right Of Way

Courtesy of the NPRHA.

New Grain Storage In Hartline

The old is gone, the new is arising.

Undated Hartline Mill Views

Courtesy of the NPRHA.

WER 3776 West

My photo.

February 6, 2021

Three SD40-2s of the Washington Eastern have just crossed US 2 between Hartline and Coulee City, near the old spur of Carr.

Digging Out On Highway 2

Guest post by Michael Sawyer.

Digging Out on Highway 2: A Winter Memory

Thirty-three years ago, today. I found myself in an inconvenient situation along Washington State Highway 2, positioned between Hartline and Coulee City. While attempting a U-turn that proved to be ill-advised, my truck became stuck in the deep winter conditions.

Fortunately, assistance was nearby. The section Foreman and the Plow Engineer came to my aid, working together to dig my truck out and get me back on the road.

State Highway 2, Washington

January 12, 1993

©️ 2026 Michael Douglas Sawyer | Photography

All Rights Reserved 

Coach Fares CW Branch Spokane To Coulee City

 

1985 CWGG Letter To Employees

It was a letter sent to my uncle, who worked for CWGG at the time.

 

1977 CWGG Annual Report

 

 

BN 808 At Hartline

Photo by Tom Carver.

Tom says:

"The CW local has just pulled to a stop to switch an elevator. Low glint illuminates the train of covered hoppers which have by now fully taken over from 40- foot grain boxes."

1981 CW View

From "CTC Board."

April 1982

1979 BN Station Revenues-Spokane Division

 

BN 8075 At Adrian

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra. 

Blair says:

"A trip to the BN east of Wenatchee on November 7, 1981--a Saturday afternoon in the late fall, and four of us--I know Brian Ambrose was along, perhaps Tom Carver and Robert Getchall as well?--drove out in the early morning from Seattle to catch the Coulee City Local. It was rumored to still be operating with F-units, the last few still running on the BN in the Northwest after those assigned to Vancouver, Seattle and Auburn were all parked by late July.

"Intelligence was correct: four F9A's were teamed with a "GP10" rebuild, and we caught up with them switching in Coulee City. Disappointingly, the geep was on the point, and no matter how much pleading, grovelling, and begging we did, the crew wasn't about to run the power around the wye to appease us. Bummer. It was the last time I saw BN F's in service. We took a couple shots of it leaving Coulee City headed into thickening cloud cover, and decided to leave it at that.

"We decided to head south a half hour to the former GN mainline west of Stratford--certainly we'd get some traffic and we did, scoring a few trains in nicely muted afternoon light.

"Here's one of the westbound: nothing fancy, just a trio of SD40-2s from the last batch BN acquired, I believe, less than a year old. They're going over the east switch at Adrian, which at one time was a junction and interchange point where the former Northern Pacific between Coulee City and Wheeler crossed over the GN.

"This was about as vanilla a set of locomotives as you could find on the BN at the time, but I'm glad I bothered making the shot. And to think we gave up a GP9/F9A/F9A/F9A/F9A set on a local for THIS!!!"

And for reference, the shot they got on the CW:

Old Bridge Number 68 Views

Courtesy of JP3.

Located about midway between Hartline and Hanson.