2025 Coulee City View

Photo courtesy Michael Dodge.

March 29, 2025

Note the locomotives of the WER next to the old depot/senior center. Also note the string of refrigerator cars stored on the spur out beyond Odair.

First Experience

From the "Grant County Journal."

May 19, 1969

Peek At The Wenatchee Depot Demolition

Photo courtesy of Ken Albrecht.

August 30, 1981

BN crew aboard only x-GN SDP40 in the engine consist 6395+3 roll Train 130 East by Wenatchee WA freight / passenger depot being demolished at the time. Photo taken August 30, 1981.

Extra 130 East Leaving Othello

Photo by Gary Brown.

Gary says:

"After waiting for sometime near the Main St. crossing at the depot, 130 and sisters head east toward the Gap, laying down sand , they accelerate the tonnage under the last few yards of Coast Div. catenary."

1938 GN Wenatchee Steam Power Views

Photos by William F. Gilman. Courtesy of Jena Gilman.

October 1938

1938 GN Wenatchee Electric Power Views

Photos by William F. Gilman. Courtesy of Jena Gilman.

October 1938

Wilbur Depot View

Date and photographer unknown.

1913 NP Map Of The Ritzville Cutoff

Note the faint line running between Ellensburg on the left and Ritell on the right. This is the survey the NP did to shorten their line across the state in the hope of making their line-haul shorter to be more competitive.

1930 Proposed Adrian Bridge Approach Rebuild