This picture shows a train load of 40' box cars ready to depart Douglas, WA on a late afternoon day in October of 1983. These cars are loaded with winter wheat harvested from the summer. According to engineering plans, this section of track was 77.5 lb rail. Photo by the late John P. Henderson.
Built by the Great Northern Railway in 1909, the 61 mile line branched off the mainline at the Columbia River and snaked its way up across Douglas County, WA to its terminus in Mansfield. In 1985 it was abandoned, thus closing the book on railroading on the Waterville Plateau. This blog is dedicated to preserving the history of the Mansfield Branch Line and Waterville Railway Co., as well as showcasing my scratch built HO scale models.
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