My photo.
June 16, 2026
A short train of the Columbia Basin Railway passes the McDonald sign on former Milwaukee Road track on the branch to Moses Lake. Power was an SD40-2 and SD9.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Big Power For Milwaukee Rail
My photo.
June 16, 2026
A short train powered by an SD9 and SD40-2 of the Columbia Basin Railway follow the west leg of the wye at Grow. The train is entering the Sugar Spur, which the Milwaukee Road built to reach to old U&I Sugar Plant at Scalley, about 5 miles north of here.
The train has carefully tread the 85lb rail to the siding at McDonald, on the Moses Lake Branch, to pick up and drop off a handful of cars. The remainder of the branch from McDonald to Moses Lake is out of service, and someday will be replaced by new construction off the Northern Pacific spur at Wheeler, to a connection with the Air Force built spur to the old Larson Air Force Base trackage.
Grow will not be found on any Milwaukee Road timetables, nor BN for that matter. The name was bestowed on the wye here by the Washington Central, who bought all this trackage from Milwaukee successor Burlington Northern. The WCRC had hired a number of Milwaukee men out of Othello to run it's trains in 1986, and had bestowed the Grow name to honor Chuck Grow, one of the more senior men that were left in Othello when the Milwaukee quit in 1980.
Friday, June 19, 2026
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Termicold Corporation
From a 1982 brochure produced by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce.
This building is now run by Americold.
Monday, June 15, 2026
Carnation Processed Potato Division
From a 1982 brochure produced by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce.
Later run by Nestle, and now run by Simplot.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Wheeler Trust Industrial Property
From a 1982 brochure produced by the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
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