Bridge #29 Damage

Flood damage photos of bridge #29.  Date unknown.  This bridge was removed after the '48 flood and made much smaller on the other side of the creek when the railroad changed the alignment at this area.  Quality of photos is not the best.

Debris pushed up against one of the bents

Looking north 

Looking north

Not sure of this location, but it appears soil has washed over the tracks.

The Wenatchee Daily World: August 4, 1948

The Wenatchee Daily World: October 28, 1948

The Wenatchee Daily World: Feb 14, 1949

Pile driver is working on bridge #15 in the above photo.  Picture of almost the same view.

Here is what is remains of bridge #33 today.  

Track washout

Bridge #28 Flood Damage

South end of Bridge #28 with flood damage.  May 18, 1938 photo.

Repair Work

Men work on restoring the bank of the railroad bed a few hundred yards north of bridge #30.  The track is on the upper right and they are working down in the creek bed.  This work took place becuase of major flooding that crippled the area and scoured this bank and many others.  You can see in this picture rock filled gabion baskets were installed to prevent the undermining of the railroad bed on this curved section.  Looking on the up grade.   Picture taken on May 23, 1938.

The Wenatchee Daily World: March 3, 1910

Washout at Milepost 27

Bridge #19

June 1948 flood damage photo of bridge #19.  1949 aerial of this section of line.

Repairing damage caused by a big flood in 1938.  Here in this picture, construction crews are revising the alignment of the track and moving it away from the wash-out.  Looking south.  This is at mile post 33 about half way between Alstown and Douglas next to the Daling Ranch.

A bladeless dozer hard at work with a pull-scrapper grading the new alignment.  Looking north with the Daling Ranch in the background.  Skykomish Historical Society provided photos.

Bridge #18

1948 flood damage to the 170' trestle #18

Nov 2007 photo of same location and view as above.  After '48 flood the tracks were located to the west side of the creek as seen in this photo.  Bridge #18 eliminated.  Looking on the down grade.  1949 aerial of this location.

 

1948 flood damage at Mile Post 22.  Looking on the down grade.  This spot is one mile up the line from McCue.

Location on aerial photo

Bridge #28

GNRY officials inspect the damaged remains of bridge #28 during the summer of 1948.  Looking on the down grade.  Picture provided by the Skykomish Historical Society.

June 2012 photo showing approximate location of bridge #28.  The bridge crossed the creek just out of view if this picture to the right.  You can see where the line used to run prior to the 1948 flood on the right.   GN relocated the line to the left and eliminated this bridge completely.  I'm standing on the revised grade location looking on the up grade approximately where the basalt rock face is in the above photo.

Bridge #22

June 1948 flood damage.

Bridge repaired

Fall 2007 photo of same view as above

Bridge photos provide by the Skykomish Historical Society.  2011 aerial photo of bridge location. 

1938 flood damage

View looking on the down grade about 850' south of bridge #27.  This grade is being restored because of  massive flooding.  Photo taken on March  28, 1938 by F. Mears.

2007 photo of the same spot as up above.

The Wenatchee Daily World: March 8, 1949

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The Wenatchee Daily World: May 29, 1948

This flood occurred two weeks before the "big flood" in June 1948. This is bridge #37 on the Mansfield Branch. Picture taken 0.75 miles south of Alstown looking on the down grade.

  

Bridge #11

Damage to bridge #11 from the June 1948 flood

Bridge repaired

2007 photo of the exact same location as the photos above.  Bridge photos provided by the Skykomish Historical Society.  

Bridge #26

June 1948 flood damage to bridge #26.

Bridge repaired.  1949 aerial of this bridge.

Pictures provide by the Skykomish Historical Society.