Rail, Highway Use Cut Off By High Water

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

February 26, 1957

Grand Coulee Roundhouse?

From the "Spokesman Review."

January 19, 1943

Roundhouse Is Being Razed

From the "Spokesman Review."

May 11, 1907

Coulee Dry Lake Making Troubles For Track Layers

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

December 21, 1934

Nature Is Lavish At Coulee City

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

December 8, 1934

Rush Gas Supply Into Coulee Dam

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

June 11, 1934

Beverly Bridge Construction Photo

Courtesy of the Othello Community Museum.

The steamboat St. Paul was used by the railroad to haul bridge building supplies from the Great Northern station upstream at Vulcan to Beverly, where the mile long bridge over the Columbia was being constructed.

Priest Rapids Dam Railroad Spur

Courtesy of the Grant PUD Archives.

This December 1957 view shows the construction of Priest Rapids Dam near the railroad siding of Priest Rapids on the Hanford Branch. Note the new railroad spur to get construction materials into the site.

Taunton Substation

Courtesy of the Othello Community Museum.

This is the recently completed substation at Taunton in 1919. This was the first substation along the Coast Division outside of Othello. Commercial power was supplied to the substation at 100,000 volts a.c. and then converted to 3000 volts d.c. via motor-generator sets inside the building.  The power was then transmitted to the overhead wires above the tracks for the electric locomotives to use.   The number 21 came from all the substations along the line being numbered from east to west. The proposed substations between Othello and Avery, ID were never built.