Monday, December 30, 2024

Save With Family Fares

From the "Soap Lake Reporter."

November 2, 1956

I find it amusing that mainline train service was being offered via the NCL, but local service from Coulee City to Spokane had been discontinued two years prior.



Sunday, December 29, 2024

NIWX 7311

Photo courtesy of Ted Curphey. 

The locomotive never really operated well, as it needed quite a few item repaired, including a lot of low voltage wiring. It now sits at the Blackwell Northern in Kansas.



Saturday, December 28, 2024

1995 BN Train Near Crater

Guest post by James Belmont.

Burlington Northern train No. 639 glides past "the Crater", a murky green lake below the basalt cliffs between Quincy and the loop at Trinidad, Washington the afternoon of June 30, 1995.