Missile Base Supplies-1

Photos courtesy of the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center.

April 22, 1956

Could this be for the missile site near Batum?

Royal City Branch Opening Ceremony-1

Photos courtesy of the Moses Lake Museum and Art Center.

June 10, 1967

Ruff Depot

Courtesy of the Odessa Historisches Museum.

The Ruff depot has seen better days in this early 1970s photograph. It was closed as an agency in June 1933 and converted into a dwelling for the section foreman sometime later. This depot was built as a Type E (that is, without a freight room) but at some point a freight room was added to it, making it a Type F depot. They ruined the looks of the building by sawing off the roof overhang and removing the brackets.

Anyone want to comment about what looks like the remnant of a wheat fire?

Wahluke Owners Set Water Goals

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

September 17, 1971

Othello's Sugar Not So Sweet

From the "Othello Outlook."

February 29, 1952

Queen Of Columbia To Preside At Ball

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

November 10, 1934

Queen Of Columbia Group Photos

From the "Spokane Chronicle."

December 5, 1934

Ruff Depot

Photograph by J. Foust; courtesy of the Othello Community Museum.

This line was served regularly with assigned power from Othello because of the business out at the Air Base and the U&I Sugar plant at Scalley and a side trip was made, as needed, on the Marcellus line. During the annual wheat rush, two separate trains were run to serve each of the branches switching needs. Towards the end of all Milwaukee operations out west, there were fewer locomotives than needed, so sometimes they were borrowed from the Tacoma area to run the branch. While it had been long closed, a train with boxcar loads of wheat passes the depot at Ruff on its way to the mainline at Warden.

Bureau Lets Contract For Potholes Dam

From the "Spokesman Review."

January 26, 1947