Supplee Action

Train switching at Supplee in April, 1981.  Looking northeast up the siding.  Olaf Rasmussen photo.

 

Coming into Supplee

A morning shot looking back at the train heading into Supplee which is about a mile and a half away. This crew will drop off a few empty box cars and grab a few full ones on the return trip later that day. Next stop after this will be Withrow and then Mansfield. April 1981 photo by Olaf Rasmussen from second locomotive.

Supplee 1981

A shot of the lead unit making the return trip coming into Supplee in April 1981. Olaf Rasmussen photo.

1971 BN Consolidated Annual Station Earnings

 Courtesy of Aaron Schwarz and the PNRA.  Originally posted on the Big Bend Railroad History Blog.

1909 Mansfield Branch Station Survey

1909 Mansfield Branch Station Survey

From the Jim Fredrickson Collection at PNRA.

Thanks to Aaron Schwarz for finding these documents.  

Originally posted by the Big Bend Railroad blog.

1909 Report On The Mansfield Branch

1909 Report On The Mansfield Branch

From the Jim Fredrickson Collection at PNRA.  

Originally posted on the Big Bend Railroad Blog.

Grain Warehouses on the Mansfield Branch

From the Jim Fredrickson Collection at PNRA.

Original post by the Big Bend Railroad History Blog.  Date of these documents are from approx. 1909.

Supple, Wash. 1983

 Supplee, Wash. August 1983.  Blair Kooistra photo.

From The Waterville Empire-Press: August 4, 1983

From The Waterville Empire-Press:  August 4, 1983

Supplee, Wa. in 1984

Train passing through Supplee, Wa. on its return trip back to Wenatchee.  March 1984 photo by David Loebsack.

Supplee, WA

From the 1915 Standard Atlas of Douglas County

Supplee, WA

Current aerial overlaid with 1968 track plans of Supplee, WA.

Overview sheet

Blow-up of south end

Blow-up of middle section

Blow-up of north end

Supplee Area

1986 abandonment track plans.

Sheet No. 10 of abandonment set.  Milepost 40 to 45.5.

Blow-up of Supplee from above sheet.

Track and ROW highlighted as being abandoned at Supplee.  Base drawing used to show revisions date back to 1930.  

The Wenatchee Daily World: January 29, 1910

Here is the first printed article of the accident from the 27th of January 1910.

The Wenatchee Daily World: November 15, 1910

Samual R. Supplee, Ralph's dad, homestead in the area now known as Supplee.  Because of the Great Northern Railway naming its siding after their family, the name Supplee was kept alive.

1968 Supplee Map

1968 USGS Topo Map of Supplee.  Siding in the highlighted area.

Plowing snow on the MB

A wedge snow plow doing work along the MB Line.  My guess is that this photo was taken somewhere near Supplee by the position of the Cascade Mountains in the background.  It also appears that the main line has been cleared of snow and the plow is on the siding.  Gus Christ photo taken during the 1950's.  Collection of the Wilson Creek Museum.

Supplee in the 1950's

Railroad workers idle the wedge plow to manually clear snow away from the switch stand at Supplee, Washington.  The top of Badger Mountain can be seen in the far distance.  Gus Christ photo.  Collection of the Wilson Creek Museum.

Crossing @ Supplee

At Supplee the remaining rails that cross Rd F NW are covered by asphalt now.  Looking northeast towards the direction of Withrow.  May 2010 photo. 

Supplee Siding

1921 GN drawing ovelaid on a current aerial of Supplee.  North is in the direction of the upper right corner.  Here is a picture looking down the tracks.