Waterville native David Loebsack hangs off the side of BN GP-9 #1805 in Alstown in the early spring of '84. David never worked for the railroad. The BN crew let him pose on the train while his cousin Alan Loebsack took the picture from atop of boxcars parked on the siding.
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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