June 14, 1981 photo. This train is bucking quite a grade as it is ready to enter the south portal entrance of the tunnel. Tim Repp captured this great shot. 2009 photo of same location. Here is a 2009 view taken about where the locomotives are in the above photo looking back at the south portal entrance.
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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