Location Of Wenatchee Wharf Track

Map from the GN-NP Archives.

This was the spur that the railroad used to access steam boats that plied the Columbia River up towards the Okanogan country, which were made obsolete by the construction of the branch to Oroville in 1914.

In later years, it was just a spur off the WO main, that went around the Cascadian Fruit Shippers warehouse from the north. Part of the actual spur today is underwater due to slack water from Rock Island Dam.

1951 Alcoa Spur Location Map

Courtesy of the GN-NP Archive.

Tunnel 12 Location Map

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archive.

1931 Rock Island Dam/Voltage Line Change

Maps courtesy of the GN-NP Archives.

Part of the fun in researching this location was due to the name changes for the area. I'm still not fully satisfied I have it all figured out. Rock Island moved to what was the Ohio Colony Spur, Voltage was once called Hammond, which isn't listed on any AFE that I could find, but is on maps. This was also the spot where the construction offices for the dam construction were located, of which a few are still in existence across from the dam and the line change below.

Note there was a construction railroad involved in the building of the dam, whose grades are all under water today. I'm still working on getting permission to publish those.

Columbia River Map

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archives.

Now known as Albus. 

There is a map at the archive, dated 1961, that shows a full plat of the "town" of Columbia River, but can't noodle out how they could have squeezed a few city streets in such steep and sandy terrain.

The 1909 line change started here, and went all the way to Crater. First 2 miles of the old line became the Mansfield branch when it was constructed.

MP 1633 Map

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archives.

Location is at the mouth of Moses Coulee, crossing over Douglas Creek. You can see in both views the old grade of what was once the line to Mansfield, which the map shows as abandoned as of 1-1-86. Most of that line in the views below was part of the original grade through the area, up until the line change in 1909. You can make out the original crossing of the creek on both the map and the satellite view.

Vulcan Map

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archives.

This location is now the site of what might become a resort community, Spanish Castle Resort. Said website doesn't say much about the railroad being there. I can imagine the complaints about noisy trains plying the line at all times of the day. 

Note that the actual Spanish Castle was across the Columbia River from this location, in Kittitas County, not Douglas County.

Trinidad Sand Spur Area Map

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archives.

I bet the folks that put the railroad through here back in the 1890s never imagines all the expensive houses that would spring up so close to the tracks in this steep sandy-sloped area.

Trinidad Underpass Changes

Map courtesy of the GN-NP Archives. The Chelan Okanogan Highway Undercrossing on the map was filled in and replaced with what is now the State Route 28 undercrossing. What is left of the old highway is seen in the satellite image labeled as Fine Wine Road N West. Note all of the railroad structures along the line, including a water cistern.