GN Power At Appleyard

Courtesy of the GNRHS. Special shout-out to Mike Hammer for reminding me of this image. I first saw it in the 1967 Charles R. Wood book "Lines West." That book was first captivating to me in the late 1970s. 

Three types of Great Northern motive power are shown at Appleyard, near Wenatchee, Wash. Left to right are GE class W-1 electric No. 5019, built in 1947; EMD FT diesel No. 416, built in 1944; and Baldwin class R-1 2-8-8-2 No. 2036.

1920s Odessa Postcard View

Thanks to Kurt Moose for finding this.

1951 Moses Lake Ice House Removal

 

1955 AFE Drawing At Warden

 

CW Snowplow Train

Guest post by Dean Ferris.

(Dan here: I've been sitting on this post for almost 7 years, at Dean's request, waiting for him to retire from the railroad.)

January 1993 saw the first use of the BN Interbay rotary snowplow in quite some time on the CW Line (now the Washington Eastern) and the P&L (now the SSP). Obviously there was no chance I was going to miss it so I called in sick to my job at Boeing. Unfortunately a Spokane TV station sent a crew out to cover the event but they seemed more intent on interviewing us than filming the rotary. So we chased the rotary and the TV crew chased us but I wasn't about to appear on TV after calling in sick (that's my wife and blue van). Steve Koberstein recorded the report on the evening news and sent me a copy. Sorry about the quality - it's from 1993 era VHS tape...

1954 Water Changes At Marcellus

 

1969 Empire Builder At Wenatchee

Courtesy of John Smoots.

June 1969