Odessa Union Locations At Time Of Highline Merger

 

Warehouses Were For Wheat And Baptisms

From the "Columbia Basin Herald."

June 23, 1972

Carload Shipments Received On Marcellus Branch

Courtesy of the PNRA. 

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging this out.

June 30, 1931

Marcellus Branch Revenues-1960 to 1977

Courtesy of Micheal Sol.

Monte Holm's Cabooses Leave Moses Lake

Photos taken November 17, 2021.

These cabeese, purchased by Monte Holm for his railroad, the Mon-Road Railroad, were the next to last major items left of his collection at the site of his old museum, next to Moses Lake Iron & Metal. Their new owner, in Oregon, hired the crew to pick these up and ship them the 9 hour drive.

Prior to the crew arriving, someone had allowed the cabeese to move from their home on a long time spur, behind a locked gate, out onto what is the old Milwaukee Road Moses Lake branch, most recently served by the Columbia Basin Railway, but the line is out of service at this point. The folks didn't attend to a derail, which knocked a set of wheels off the track of the leading caboose. The crew spent the most of the first day rerailing it the hard way (by hand and a truck), before getting to the point of being able to prep the cabeese for the move the next day. 

Note the derailed truck.

A nice surprise found in one caboose.

CB&Q heritage is showing.

Nice try, boys. But that one truck was in the derailment, and now the bearings are out of place and a stronger power will be needed to move the wheels.

NP heritage of the second caboose.

Angela Gordner photo.

Angela Gordner photo.

1975 Milwaukee "Night Letter"

Courtesy of Allen Miller.

Allen says:
"Here are some line-ups of a different kind. Kind of like a Chief Dispatcher's "Night Letter" these are instructions for calling and making up trains out of Othello by Trainmaster Gerry McCole (G.A.M.)."

"This is page 1 of 2 pages dated 8-15-1975. I haven't figured out what "RC" means. "M/U" means Make-Up or Made-Up. "OIH" means Old Ice House" referring to a track."

"Page 2 of 8-15-1975."

"Page 1 of 2 dated 8-28-1975."

"Page 2 of 8-28-1975."

"This is a one page list of things for the Mosey Local to do on a given night. "MBW" is Marve Williamson, agent at Moses Lake."

I asked Allen about the coal at Warden to be moved to Seiler:
"The coal went to the U&I Sugar Plant at Scalley. It was probably just being stored at Seiler."

1969 MIlwaukee Road Eleventh Subdivision Timetable

1967 Jantz Topo Map

1956 Marcellus Branch Timetable

Milwaukee Road 1976 Condensed Profile Marcellus to Warden