BN Train 21 At Trinidad

Photo courtesy of Dean Ferris.

July 1989

BN 6835 At Trinidad

Photos courtesy of Ken Albrecht. 

May 22, 1975

Trinidad Loop-2

Courtesy of Tom Carver.

"Into the teeth of the 1% climb out of the Columbia River valley in the background, this eastbound is now heading east and west simultaneously as it ascends onto the Columbia Plateau. This loop is actually a full horseshoe up a side coulee of the Columbia valley. After leaving Wenatchee, WA., BN's ex-GN line crosses from the west to east side of the Columbia River and initiates this 20-mile climb to Quincy on its way to Ephrata and eventually Spokane."

Trinidad Loop

Courtesy of Tom Carver.

"My intent was to get both ends of the train in the photo here at Trinidad Loop, which is out of the frame to the right, but prior to that this Frisco boxcar caught my eye which I think is a better image anyway. This westbound is fully occupying the loop on BN's Spokane Division 5th Sub between Spokane and Wenatchee. It is on a 1 percent grade down to the Columbia River, which runs generally due south in this part of Washington State and occupies the canyon in the middle distance. The train will then turn compass north to Wenatchee, upriver out of the photo to the right."

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

BN 1975 Station Revenues R-W

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

2007 Grandluxe Rail Journeys View

Grandluxe Rail Journeys (formerly American Orient Express) on the horseshoe at Trinidad, Washington - June 20, 2007.

Photos by Steven J. Brown as noted. Others by David Honan. Both used with permission.

 

At the big horseshoe curve:

Along Crater Lake:

 

 

 

Approaching the tunnel:

Mr. Brown in the vestibule:

Trinidad Area Water Tank Location

Includes the location of the source of water.

Ephrata Trainorders

 

Ephrata Trainorders

 

My Holy Grail? The Original Trestle At Trinidad

Thanks to Thomas Ogle and Dean Ogle for finding this and sharing. I've ordered a higher resolution copy to see the details of the background better.

Photo is part of the Special Collections archive at the University of Washington.

Note on the photo: Harry H. Dean (November 11, 1868- December 7, 1946) was born in Iowa and was hired by the Great Northern Railway in 1885 to work in the construction of the railway through the Cascades. He later worked as an engineer on the route and continued to work for the railroad until he retired in 1939.

BN Intermodal Approaching Trinidad

Courtesy of Blair Kooistra.

Blair says:

"Bathed in the lurid hue of sunrise on the desert, eastbound hotshot train #4 climbs the 0.8% gradient away from the Columbia River on Burlington Northern's former Great Northern mainline between Wenatchee and Spokane, Washington, at dawn on September 17, 1991.

I was living in Spokane at the time, and a couple of hour drive to Wenatchee before sunrise would usually result in a fleet of eastbound intermodal trains to photograph in morning light climbing the winding gradient in and out of the coulees leading to the Columbia basin."

 

1983 BN Views

Courtesy of Dennis George Shogren.

July 1983 Coming home from CT (Part 2)
#7. At Trinidad Siding. BN 6340 & BN 6332 SD40s
#8. At Wenatchee. BN 2716 GP39-2
#9. BN 6904 SD40-2, BN 6534 SD45, BN 6783 & BN 7??? SD40-2s
#10. BN 4033 & BN 4023 B30-7ABs, a F45 I didn’t get the number.
Now, I get to be stationed home area in the Navy as a Chief Petty Officer for four years on a Trident Submarine and a Nuclear Officer Recruiter until June, 1987 when I get stationed to Hawaii, again.

1964 Trinidad Loop Aerial Photos

 

2007 Rock Island To Trinidad Photos

Courtesy of the Department of Ecology.