1920s Odessa Postcard View

Thanks to Kurt Moose for finding this.

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.

Ephrata Trainorders

 

BN 1971 Consolidated Annual Station Earnings

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

1957 Derailment Scene Near Odessa

From the "Grant County Journal."

July 29, 1957

BN Train Near Odessa

Courtesy of Dean Ferris. 

BN Train #105 leans into a curve near Odessa, WA on August 6, 1989.

Ephrata Trainorders

 

1966 Track Foreman Train Location Lineups

 

GN Will Close Marlin Station

From the Spokane "Chronicle."

July 17, 1933

Undated Odessa Postcard View

No date.

Cost Of Derailment May Hit $2 Million

From the "Spokesman Review."

June 10, 1990

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. 

BN AFE Index Card-Odessa

Courtesy of the PNRA and Aaron Schwarz.

BN 6919 At Odessa

Photo courtesy of Bill Edgar.

July 16, 1977

Bill says:

"Remarks & Notes 

BN 6919 has its westbound freight tucked into the siding at Odessa, WA as an eastbound meets it. Odessa is about halfway between Spokane and Wenatchee, WA on the former GN mainline."

1946 Odessa Grain Bin View

314,000 bushel capacity.

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

Odessa Airmarker Photo

From the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Donald and Lela Crawford Airphoto Company Photograph Collection. PH Coll 624.

October 26, 1967

See this spot today.