Connell Thinks East Road Best

From the "Spokesman Review."

January 9, 1947

2020 Fall Scene Near Schlomer

Photo courtesy of Steven J. Brown.

Steve says:
"Columbia Basin SD9 12 (built 1959 as C&S 832 to BNSF 6115 to TCRY 25), SD9 610 (built 1957 as EJ&E 602 to MRL 610), GP9u 2294 (built 1956 as AT&SF GP9 719 to AT&SF GP9u 2294) and SD19-1 651 (built 1957 as EJ&E SD9 601 to MRL 609 to MRL SD19-1 651) heading to Connell at Schlomer, Washington - November 9, 2020."

1936 Moon Road Crossing

Courtesy of JP3.

Located between Schlomer and Connell.

See this spot today. Note the road has been straightened and now crosses at grade. From the satellite view, you can easily see the old alignment seen in the image below.

Current view of the trestle.

2019 CBRW Connell Turn Views

Photos by Jonathan Fischer.

November 19, 2019

Just south of Warden.

 

Shano

Schlomer

Descending into Connell.

CBRW At Schlomer

Photo by Gary Durr.

August 2016

Had a little business in the Central Washington region today, and was able to catch the CBRW Connell turn returning to Warden from Connell... this is just as they pop out of the coulee country and onto the flats at a location known as "Schlomer"... This isn't actually the top of the grade, that is a bout a mile or so ahead of them at at the Connell grain growers facility on Paradise road... No name for that location that I can find, but there is a short spur there with a burnt up old ballast tamper... I will have to look and see if there was a name that the NP used for this location...

BNSF Track Segment 379

Compiled by the late Alan Eisenberg.

Green segments were in service at the time the list was made. Red was out of service or gone. "CB" stands for "Columbia Basin Railway."

Schlomer

These buildings are now gone and the place is just a memory.