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.
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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