1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory M-R

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Seiler Aerial Photo

Guest post by William Russ.

Here’s a Lines West station with a 58 car siding and 2 (or is it 3?) other tracks with a capacity of 77 cars. All that capacity is needed to service the industry we see here plus two others west of here. I count 60 cars on train occupying the main line. I think this train has stopped here to do some work. That said, I can’t locate the power. This makes me think the crew left their train to go switch one of the other industries. One of those has a pair of spurs coming off the main about 1.5 miles to the west. The other is accessed down a long spur just 0.4 miles to the west. All of these industries are agricultural related. The aerial was taken July 29, 1966.

Tiflis/Bassett Junction

Guest post by William Russ.

There are 2 competing railroads in this April 21, 1959 aerial. The difficult local geography caused them to build fairly close to each other here. Zoom in on this high-resolution image and you will see both Junction A and B feature a wye. South of here each railroad serves the same town. North of here they go their own separate ways and don't compete with each other, not within the same towns anyway. The railroads cross each other at two places within this aerial. Neither crossing is at grade so there is no mention of them in the respective TTs. 

Railroad A: Connell Northern/Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern
Railroad B: Milwaukee Road
Junction A: Basset Junction N of Ritell on the NP Connell Northern Branch
Junction B: Tiflis Wye on the Milwaukee Road

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory E-M

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

1983 BN Washington Grain Elevator Directory A-E

Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.

Unloading Uranium Around Hanford

Posted by Don Sorenson.

Don says: 

"Receiving bare U (uranium) rods. I might guess those with 1/2 masks went into the rail car. How much Radon you suppose was in that car. I'd bet the doors were opened to air out before entering."