1990 Lamona Sideswipe Collision

From "Northwest Railfan."

July 1990

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory E-M

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

BN 1975 Station Revenues H-R

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

BN 1971 Consolidated Annual Station Earnings

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Ephrata Trainorders

 

Punctured Tank Spills Diesel Oil

From "The Olympian."

June 12, 1990

Cost Of Derailment May Hit $2 Million

From the "Spokesman Review."

June 10, 1990

Train Crash Blaze Loss Estimated At $500,000

From the Tacoma "News Tribune."

June 10, 1990

Rail Cars Leap Tracks; Trains Rerouted By GN

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

June 26, 1957

GN Roadbed Washed Out Near Lamona

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

June 15, 1948

Cost Of Derailment May Hit $2 Million

From the "Spokesman Review."

June 10, 1990

Two Coaches And A Sleeper

From the "Spokesman Review."

September 8, 1903

Milwaukee Plats Towns In Big Bend

From the "Spokesman Review."

June 13, 1910

Lamona Postcard View

Lamona is situated in Sec 36 Twp 22 R 34, about 13 miles southwest of Harrington along the Great Northern Railroad, and 10 miles east of Odessa. The area originally was called "Parker Station" but when John Lamona built his store and established the post office about 1895, the town site was platted and named Lamona.  Lamona had two churches, Lutheran and Methodist, numerous businesses in the pioneer days and a nice schoolhouse. In addition to the public school the Lutheran minister also taught the German children in a separate school.

2014 Lamona View

Photo courtesy of James Berg.

Addition Readied For Grain Storage

From the "Spokesman Review."

March 29, 1960

1973 BN Consolidated Annual Station Earnings-2

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz.

Train Dispatcher's Graph

Courtesy of Dave Sprau.

June 1987


Dave says:

"Train dispatchers "graph" of movements in CTC installed mostly on Great Northern days, between Edmonds and Harrington. Way too much to document here except to say this graph rolled along slowly, sort of like a window shade, from one roller to another, and the time of day is shown at the left. The time of day on the graph is 5.40 PM. Amtrak 1008 went by Edmonds and cleared the double track at east end at 528 pm; then Pacific Zip No 3 went thru the single track at Edmonds one minute afterward. The Kirkland Turn ran from Snohomish to Lowell 20 minutes ago and then No 600 occupied the switch at Lowell to make his pick up and is still there. Advance 12 just went by Gold Bar. 103 left Skykomish 7 minutes ago so obviously they are going to meet at Baring. The identity of trains is inked in by hand, as you see. Some identities cant be seen, because they are written on a portion of the graph not photographed here. Part of dispatchers duties when we had this old equipment was to take a pen and "connect the dots" - the "dots" being those little jogs of an automatic pen on this graph paper each time a train goes past a control point, -usually the siding switches at a station. Then when you connect all the dots you get a nice little "picture" of the operation. Technology and procedure consigned to the garbage can about 30 years ago."

BNSF Train At Lamona

Courtesy of Harley Kuehl.

1998

Passing the old general store.

GN Roadbed Washed Out Near Lamona

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

June 15, 1948