Thursday, September 28, 2023

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

August 1983 Run

 Mansfield Local nearing the Palisades Siding at mile post 15 on August 1, 1983 in Moses Coulee.  This train is loaded down with wheat in 40' box cars that were filled on the Plateau.  Blair Kooistra photo.


Monday, September 18, 2023

HO Scale Quonset Hut Kit

 Walthers Converted Quonset Hut Kit.  I added the vending machine covered roof and a few other details.  












Wednesday, August 30, 2023

1976 Burlington Northern Spokane Division Locals and Switch Engines

 1976 Burlington Northern Spokane Division Locals and Switch Engines 

Info Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA. 

 Originally posted by Dan Bolyard on his Big Bend Railroad History Blog.








Monday, July 31, 2023

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Douglas Depot gets hammered

February 1920.  Colorized photo of a Waterville Railway Passenger Car crashed into the Douglas Depot.  Click here for the whole story behind the photo.  


 

Monday, May 1, 2023

I.O.O.F Band plays at the Waterville Depot

Waterville Chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows' band poses on the platform near the Depot on Rainier St. in 1910.  They were in attendance for the opening of the Waterville Railway Line from Douglas to Waterville.  The Mansfield Branch had been open a year earlier. 


 

Monday, April 24, 2023

Withrow Depot/Shop Diorama

HO scale diorama of the Withrow Depot after it was split in half and converted into a shop. Diorama measures 13" x 13". Withrow native Walter Nollmeyer, split and moved the depot in the 1940's and his son Terry Nollmeyer used it as his shop until he died in 1996.