Industrial and General Report-1912-4

Courtesy of the PNRA. Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for digging this out.

Late Empire Builder

5-16-26 

Today's very late #7 at Marlin, WA.

1979 BN Station Revenues-Spokane Division

 

Milwaukee Grain Company-Marlin

From the "Grant County Journal."

August 26, 1949

Posting this to help chronicle the progression of grain elevator companies around here (this location is now part of Highline Grain. More on Fred Frick tomorrow.

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory M-R

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

BN 1975 Station Revenues H-R

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Train Derails Near Marlin, 13 Freight Cars Leave Track

From the "Grant County Journal."

February 28, 1977

BN 1971 Consolidated Annual Station Earnings

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Wheat-The Life Blood Of The Marlin District

From the "Grant County Journal."

September 6, 1946

Towns In Basin Named After Considerable Thought

 

1920 Krupp

 

Articles of Merger Between Krupp Union Grain and Central Washington Grain Growers

GN Will Close Marlin Station

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

July 17, 1933

Train Kills Cattle Herd Near Marlin

From the "Spokesman Review." June 28, 1966

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

June 29, 1966

1957 Krupp Union Grain View

 

GN Train No. 1 Had Narrow Escape

From the Wenatchee "World."

January 27, 1910

It's not often I get a chance to put some serious pieces of a puzzle together and get a better idea of the story. That happened when I opened up a copy of the Wenatchee paper from 1910 that someone sent me. On the front page was a write up about the wreck pictured below, a picture I had first posted back in 2008. Read the clippings over the next 2 images and while not 100% accurate, it does paint a pretty good picture of what really happened.

Of note, the "washout" listed in the first paragraph was actually the end of the track west of Coulee City.

The newspaper the Wenatchee "Daily World" from January 27, 1910.

1955 Wenatchee To Spokane Track Chart

Courtesy of the Wilson Creek Museum.

Edits by Gus Christ.