BN Train Near Rock Island Dam

Photo courtesy Ken Albrecht.

Ken says: 

"BN  crew in lead xNP BN SD45 6418+1 move Train 130 East along the Columbia  River past the Rock Island Dam situated near Rock Island WA on 6-13-81.  

1981 Wenatchee Views

Photos by Ken Albrecht. 

Ken says: "BN crew aboard lead unit xGN SDP40 6395 + 3 more BN Cascade green units with Train #130 roll East by soon to be demolished depot in Wenatchee WA 8-30-81."

"BN crew aboard lead unit SD45 6550+3 more BN Cascade green units roll west by soon to be demolished depot in Wenatchee WA 8-30-81."

BN 6603 At Rock Island

Photo by Bill Edgar.

March 6, 1980.

BN 6603, former GN 430, operates Great Northern longhood first, handling train 3, once known as the "Pacific Zip" through Rock Island, WA on the last lap into Wenatchee where it will receive a new crew and hopefully a properly facing loco for the trip into south Seattle. About a half hour earlier the lead SD45 had to be removed at Quincy, WA due to issues with one of its trucks. Note the engineer is operating from the trailing unit, head out of the window!

Outlet Works Gate Body

Photographer unknown.

April 11, 1938

A gate body casting for the elevation 934 outlet works, ready for shipment to the dam. This casting weighs approximately 19-1/2 tons, and was manufactured by the Hardie-Tynes Co. Birmingham, Alabama.

Pre-manufactured drop gate for the outlet works to shut off water flow to the power plant.

Officials At Odair For First Train

United States. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation.; photographer unknown

July 29, 1935

Photograph of those participating in the official celebration of the handover of a railroad for construction operations at the Grand Coulee Dam.

Part of the official party at the opening of the U. S. Construction Railroad celebration, left to right: Governor C. D. Martin, locomotive engineer; Mr. Francis Donaldson, Chief Engineer, M.W.A.K. Company; Mr. J. I. Dinman, President Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Jas. O'Sullivan, Columbia Basin Commission; Mr. E. F. Blaine,"Father of Irrigation" Guy F. Atkinson, Vice President, M.W.A.K. Company; Ben H. Kizer, Chairman, State Planning Commission; Wm. Clapp, Attorney, Ephrats; E. L. Kier, Vice President, M.W.A.K. Company; Harvey Slocum, General Superintendent, M.W.A.K. Company.

Taunton View

Thanks to Colin Mclean for finding this.

Photographer unknown.

1960s?

Pacific News October 1979

Thanks to Colin Mclean for sharing this.

Mansfield Area Trestle Removal

Photo by Henry Tupling. Courtesy of Darrin Nelson.

May 1987 photo showing a crew of men dismantling trestle #43 that spanned county Rd C NE about 3 miles SW of Mansfield. Two years earlier, the line was abandoned closing an era of railroading into the heart of Douglas County. 

Grain Loading At Waterville

Photo courtesy of Darrin Nelson.

Around 1917.

Men load sacks of wheat on Great Northern Railway Box Cars via conveyor belt at the warehouse siding in Waterville.